Teresa Rivera Pastrana (born April 24, 1966) is a former female

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. She participated in two consecutive

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for her native country, starting in 1980. Her best result was a 6th place in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

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. She won three bronze medals at the Panamerican games in 1979. She later retired from swimming and became a teacher teaching Health 101 to Freshmen at the American School Foundation of Mexico City. Also, she is the head of the swimming department swimming at ASF.

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1966 births Living people Mexican female swimmers Mexican female freestyle swimmers Female backstroke swimmers Swimmers at the 1979 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games Olympic swimmers of Mexico Place of birth missing (living people) Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Pan American Games medalists in swimming Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming Competitors at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games 20th-century Mexican women 21st-century Mexican women {{Mexico-swimming-bio-stub