Albert Subirats
Albert Subirats Altes[a] (born 25 September 1986)[1] is an Olympic and national record holding swimmer from Venezuela. He represented his homeland at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics.[2] At the 2007 World Championships, Subirats won Venezuela's first (long course) World Championships medal.
Collegiately, he attended the University of Arizona 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 NCAA champion, winning the 100 yd fly his junior and senior years (2006, 2007) and the 100 back (2006).[3]
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, 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 11 August 1998, at the 1998 Games in Maracaibo.[4]
See also
[edit]List of South American records in swimming
Notes
[edit]- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Subirats and the second or maternal family name is Altes.
References
[edit]- ^ "SUBIRATS ALTES Albert". Beijing 2008 Olympics. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games. Archived from the original on 10 August 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Albert Subirats". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
- ^ Subirats bio from the Arizona Athletics website (www.arizonaathletics.com); retrieved 25 June 2009.
- ^ Men's 100 free results[permanent dead link] from the 2006 CAC website; retrieved 25 June 2009.
External links
[edit]- Albert Subirats at World Aquatics
- Albert Subirats at Swimrankings.net
- Albert Subirats at Olympedia
- Albert Subirats at Olympics.com
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Valencia, Venezuela
- Venezuelan male freestyle swimmers
- Arizona Wildcats men's swimmers
- Venezuelan expatriate swimmers in the United States
- Olympic swimmers for Venezuela
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Venezuela
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Venezuela
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Venezuela
- Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
- Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
- South American Games gold medalists for Venezuela
- South American Games silver medalists for Venezuela
- South American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
- South American Games medalists in swimming
- Competitors at the 2002 South American Games
- Competitors at the 2010 South American Games
- Competitors at the 2014 South American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Venezuelan people
- 21st-century Venezuelan people