Mateo De Angulo Velasco (born June 18, 1990, in Cali) is a Colombian swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events. He is a 2010 NJCAA Men's Swimmer of the Year, and nine-time NJCAA champion. He also holds Colombian records in all three long-distance freestyle events (400, 800, and 1500 m). De Angulo helped his Colombian team to take the trophy in the 800 m freestyle relay at the

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. De Angulo qualified for the men's 400 m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics in

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, by establishing a Colombian record and a time faster than the FINA B-cut off time of 3:53.66 from the Indy Grand Prix in

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. He challenged former world champion and

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Mateusz Sawrymowicz Mateusz Sawrymowicz (born 22 April 1987 in Lublin) is a Polish swimmer who specializes in the 1500 m freestyle. Having won in Melbourne in 2007 he became the first person to beat Grant Hackett Grant George Hackett OAM (born 9 May 1980) is a ...

of Poland,

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swimmer Allan Gutierrez Castro of Honduras, and Palestine's Ahmed Gebrel on the first heat. De Angulo cruised to second place by four seconds behind Sawrymowicz in 3:57.76. De Angulo failed to advance into the final, as he placed twenty-sixth overall on the first day of preliminaries. De Angulo is a varsity swimmer for the Florida State Seminoles, and a graduate of social sciences at the Florida State University in

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Player Bio – Florida State Seminoles
* 1990 births Living people Colombian male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Colombia Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Cali Florida State Seminoles men's swimmers Swimmers at the 2015 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games South American Games silver medalists for Colombia South American Games bronze medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in swimming Competitors at the 2010 South American Games Competitors at the 2014 South American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming Pan American Games competitors for Colombia 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-swimming-bio-stub