Carolina Cerqueda Santacreu (born November 7, 1985) is an Andorran former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a 2004 Olympian and currently holds three Andorran records each in the 50, 100, and 200 m freestyle. She is a former member of Club Natació Sabadell in

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. Cerqueda qualified for the women's 100 m freestyle at the

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, by receiving a Universality place from FINA. Four months before the Games, she posted an invitation time of 1:00.62 at the

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in Madrid, Spain. She topped the first heat against Burundi's Larissa Inangorore and Benin's

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by a wide margin of 23 seconds, in her lifetime best of 1:00.38. Cerqueda failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.

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* * 1985 births Living people Andorran female swimmers Olympic swimmers of Andorra Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Andorran female freestyle swimmers People from Andorra la Vella {{Andorra-swimming-bio-stub