Antonella Bogarín (born November 11, 1991) is an Argentine swimmer, who specialized in open water marathon events. She represented her nation
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
at the
2008 Summer Olympics, finishing twenty-fourth in the inaugural open water marathon.
Bogarin competed as a lone female open water swimmer for Argentina in the
10 km marathon at the
2008 Summer Olympics in
Beijing
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. Leading up to the Games, she placed twelfth in the 10 km Marathon Swimming Olympic test event at
Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
The Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park () was built for the rowing, canoeing and 10 km open-water swimming events in the 2008 Summer Olympics. It is located in Mapo Village in the Shunyi District in Beijing.
The first competitions at the venue ...
. Bogarin finished the grueling race in twenty-fourth place with a total time of 2:11:35.9, approximately twelve minutes behind winner
Larisa Ilchenko
Larisa Dmitriyevna Ilchenko (russian: Лариса Дмитриевна Ильченко; born 18 November 1988) is a Russian long-distance swimmer. She has won eight world titles and a gold at the 2008 Olympics.
Biography
Ilchenko has dominated ...
of Russia.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
1991 births
Living people
Argentine female swimmers
Olympic swimmers of Argentina
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Female long-distance swimmers
Sportspeople from Santa Fe, Argentina
South American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
South American Games medalists in swimming
Competitors at the 2010 South American Games
20th-century Argentine women
21st-century Argentine women
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