Melanie Slowing de Montenegro (born January 10, 1973) is a Guatemalan former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Slowing qualified for the
women's 50 m freestyle, as a 31-year-old, at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
in
Athens
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, by breaking a Guatemalan record and posting a FINA B-cut of 26.89 from the Central American and Caribbean Championships in
Mexico City
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. She topped the fourth heat by less than 0.04 of a second ahead of Moldova's
Maria Tregubova in 27.44. Slowing failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-sixth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.
She is the sister of
Karen Slowing who competed in the Olympics in 1984.
References
External links
Profile – Aquatics Centre Guatemala
1973 births
Living people
Guatemalan female swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Guatemala
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Guatemalan female freestyle swimmers
Sportspeople from Guatemala City
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