Pilar Geijo (born 19 September 1984 in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

) is a

Marathon swimmer Marathon swimming is a class of open water swimming defined by long distances, with being the unofficially held minimum distance. Routes are typically geographically based or buoy based. Geographical routes include crossings of channels and ...

from

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

. She has won most of the world's greatest ultra-marathon swimming competitions: the 2010 Traversée Internationale du Lac Memphrémagog (34K event), the 2011 Maratona del Golfo Capri Napoli Marathon (36K), the 2010 16K FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix in Sumidero Canyon in Mexico, and the longest race in the world, the 88K Hernandarias-Parana FINA Grand Prix event (88K) in Argentina. She has won the FINA Grand Prix circuit in 2010 and 2011.

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Living people 1984 births Swimmers from Buenos Aires Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games Female long-distance swimmers Argentine female swimmers South American Games silver medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in swimming Competitors at the 2006 South American Games Pan American Games competitors for Argentina {{Argentina-swimming-bio-stub