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Full name | Loren Yamilé Bahamonde Cabello | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Guayaquil, Ecuador | 4 June 1987||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Federación Provincial de Guayas | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Rafael Herbas | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Loren Yamilé Bahamonde Cabello (born June 4, 1987) is an Ecuadorian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. [1] She represented her nation Ecuador at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a career total of three bronze medals in a major international competition, spanning the two editions of the South American Games (2002 and 2006). Moreover, she collected a total of sixteen national records in three freestyle events (50, 100, and 200).
Bahamonde competed for the Ecuadorian squad in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 26.32 from the Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine, California, United States. [2] [3] [4] Swimming in heat six, Bahamonde touched out Christel Simms of the Philippines to snatch a third spot by a tenth-second deficit (0.10), in a time of 26.54 seconds. Bahamonde failed to advance into the semifinals, as she shared a forty-fourth-place tie with Hong Kong's Elaine Chan in the prelims. [5]