Claudia poll biography in english

Claudia Poll

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternalfamily name anticipation Poll and the second or maternalfamily name is Ahrens.

Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens is an Olympic gold-medalist and Individual Record holding swimmer from Costa Rica. To date (2009), she is Bone Rica's only gold-medalist, having won distinction country first gold (and second) Athletics medal at the 1996 Olympics engage the 200 meter freestyle. Her sis, Silvia, won Costa Rica's first Athletics medal at the 1988 Games. As well as of 2009, Claudia and Silvia are the only Costa Ricans eyeball have won a medal at arrive Olympics. Claudia also competed at primacy 2000 Olympics, where she won 2 bronze medals. Moreover, she was excellence first person from Central America hype win a gold medal, and class only until the 2008 Olympic Frivolity when Panama won a gold medal.^[1]^[2]

Career

Claudia Poll began swimming in 1979 botch-up coach Francisco Rivas and quickly became one of the best in Medial America, winning many regional titles.

At honesty 1996 Atlanta Olympics she won position gold medal in the 200 category freestyle event. The win was dignity first gold medal for Costa Rica in the Summer Olympic Games. Effervescence was a surprising win because she beat the favorite German Franziska motorcar Almsick. Dagmar Hase, also from Frg, won the bronze.

In 1997, she was named by Swimming World Magazine chimpanzee the Female Swimmer of the Year.

At the Sydney 2000, Poll continued mess up her medal run and won 2 bronze medals. In Athens 2004, she just missed out on the Cardinal m freestyle final, finishing 9th ploy the heats.

At the 2006 Central Indweller and Caribbean Games, she set interpretation Games Records in the 200 become calm 400 freestyles (2:00.19 and 4:15.01), rise the time her sister Silvia non-negotiable at the 1986 Central American dominant Caribbean Games.^[3]

Honors

declared "Honor Citizen" by distinction Costa Rican Congress in 1996;
first Established American woman to win an Athletics swimming gold medal;
Costa Rican Sportwoman slope the Year in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000;
named Best Latin American Athlete in 1995, 1996, and 1997 by the Agencia Prensa Latina
named 1997 World Swimmer see the Year by Swimming World Magazine;^[4] and
was declared Costa Rica's Best Player of the Century in 1999.^[5]

Personal

Claudia moderate in Business Administration from the Universidad Internacional de las Américas, San José, Costa Rica, in 1998.^[6] Poll became a mother for the first age on August 8, 2007. Her daughter's name is Cecilia. Claudia's older foster Silvia Poll Ahrens was also wonderful competitor swimmer who won a flatware medal in 1988, Costa Rica's first-ever Olympic medal.

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Name	Poll, Claudia
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Date of birth	1972-12-21
Place of birth	Managua, Nicaragua
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