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Albert Subirats Altes (born September 25, 1986) is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from
Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
. He represented his homeland at the 2004,
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and 2012 Olympics. At the 2007 World Championships, Subirats won Venezuela's first (long course) World Championships medal. Collegiately, he attended the
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in the United States, where he swam for the Arizona Wildcats swimming and diving team from 2004 to 2007. While at Arizona, he was a 3-time individual
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champion, winning the 100 yd fly his junior and senior years (2006, 2007) and the 100 back (2006). As of June 2009, he holds the Venezuelan records in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, 50 m and 100 m backstroke and 50 & 100 m butterfly (long course) and was part of the 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley teams that hold those record. In the short course, he holds the 50 m backstroke and 50 m and 100 m butterfly records. He also holds the South American long course 100 m butterfly record, and the short course 50 m backstroke record. At the
2006 Central American and Caribbean Games The 20th edition of the Central American and Caribbean Games was held in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The tournament began on July 15 and ended on July 30. Host city *Main host city **Cartagena de Indias *Subsites: ** Barranquilla, Colombia ...
, he set a Games Record in winning the men's 100 m freestyle (49.55); bettering the record of 50.00 set by fellow Venezuelan Francisco Sánchez on August 11, 1998, at the 1998 Games in Maracaibo.Men's 100 free results
from the 2006 CAC website; retrieved 2009-06-25.


See also

List of South American records in swimming


References

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