MARTINEZ Luis Carlos

11 Dec 1995
25
Male
Olympic Scholarship

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SWM Swimming Men's 100m Butterfly 7

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocation100Fly
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRAH (52.22)

World Championships
YearLocation50Fly100Fly200Fly
2017Budapest, HUNH (23.71)H (52.18)H (2:03.10)
2015Kazan, RUSH (24.20)H (52.72)-

Pan American Games
YearLocation50Free100Fly
2019Lima, PERFinal B (22.99)2nd (51.63)


Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final
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Athlete
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Mechanical Engineering - Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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English, Spanish
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Duncan Sherrard [personal]
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He was enrolled in swimming by his father. "He signed me up only for me to learn how to swim the four strokes. Little by little I began having confidence in myself and I fell into competitive swimming. What I liked the most was the thrill of competition." (Comite Olimpico Guatemalteco YouTube channel, 14 May 2016)
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In 2019 he was named Outstanding Guatemalan of the Year by the Guatemalan Association of Louisiana in the United States of America. (elespectadorguatemala.com, 01 Nov 2019)

He was named Best Male Swimmer of the Year by the Guatemalan Swimming Federation in 2018. (guatevision.com, 28 Dec 2018)

He was Guatemala's flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the 2017 Central American Games in Managua, Nicaragua. (guatemala.com, 26 Dec 2017)
Legend
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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