Adriana Marmolejo
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| Full name | Adriana Rebeca Marmolejo Vargas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 5, 1982 Mexico City, Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Texas A&M University (USA) (2000–2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Adriana Rebeca Marmolejo Vargas (born March 5, 1982)[1] is a 3-time Olympic and national record-holding swimmer from Mexico. She swam at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics,[2] making her the first Mexican woman to swim at 3 Olympic Games.[3] She has held the Mexican Records in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststrokes since 1998.[3]
In January 2009, Marmolejo became an assistant coach with the men's and women's swimming teams at Arizona State University.[3] After coaching in Phoenix, and later at Northwestern University, Marmolejo joined the coaching staff at the University of Chicago In October 2010.[4]
Family[edit]
Adriana father's, Ricardo,[3] and her brother Pablo[5] have both been members of Mexico's national swimming team. Ricardo swam at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics.[3][5] Pablo swam at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games (alongside Adriana) and at the 2007 World Championships.[5] At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy Pablo set the Mexico National Record in the 100 meter butterfly. A record once held father, Ricardo. In June 2011, Adriana married Kyle Schack of Huntington Woods, Michigan in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. She changed her name to Adriana Schack.
Swimming[edit]
Adriana has won 75 Mexican National titles over the course of her swimming career.[3]
She swam collegiately for the USA's Texas A&M University.[6]
On August 10, 1998, at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she set the Games Record in the women's 200m Breaststroke (2:37.12). She also bettered the mark at the 2006 CACs.[7]
At the 2008 Olympics, Marmolejo swam a lifetime best time and bettered her Mexican Record in the 100 and 200m breaststroke (1:10.73 and 2:28.10).[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Marmolejo's bio page Archived September 8, 2008, at the Wayback Machine from the 2008 Olympics website; retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ^ Marmolejo's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ^ a b c d e f Marmolejo's bio from the Arizona State University athletics website; published 2009-01; retrieved 2009-07-09
- ^ "University of Chicago Men's Swimming & Diving Roster". Archived from the original on 2010-12-31. Retrieved 2010-11-22. from the University of Chicago athletics website; published 2010-10; retrieved 2010-11-22
- ^ a b c Pablo Marmolejo's bio from the West Virginia University athletics website; retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ^ Q&A with Adriana Marmolejo[permanent dead link] from the Texas A&M Athletics website; published 2002-12-05, retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ^ Results from the Final of the women's 200 breast at the 2006 CACs[permanent dead link], showing Marmolejo's 1998 record, and that she broke the Games Record in 2006. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
- ^ (in Spanish) Adriana Marmolejo bate el récord nacional de los 200 braza (trans: "Adriana Marmolejo breaks the national record in the 200 breast"). soitu.es; published 2008-08-13, retrieved 2009-07-10.
External links[edit]
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Mexican female swimmers
- Female breaststroke swimmers
- Arizona State Sun Devils swimming coaches
- Northwestern University staff
- Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Texas A&M Aggies women's swimmers
- Mexican expatriate swimmers in the United States
- Chicago Maroons coaches
- Olympic swimmers for Mexico
- Swimmers from Mexico City
- 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 silver medalists for Mexico
- Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- 21st-century American women