Betiana Basualdo

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Betiana Basualdo (born May 12, 1976) is an Argentinian S2 para-swimmer. She has won two gold medals, three silver medals, and six bronze medals between the Paralympic Games and IPC Swimming World Championships.

Career

Basualdo was born on May 12, 1976, in Buenos Aires.{{cite web |title=Nuestros Delfines en Juegos Paralímpicos de Pekín – 2008 |url=https://natacion.com.ar/nuestros-delfines-en-juegos-paralimpicos-de-pekin-2008/ |publisher=Natacion |access-date=June 28, 2021 |language=Spanish |date=March 15, 2006}} Basualdo made her Paralympic debut for Argentina during the 1996 Summer Paralympics at the age of 18. She won three medals during the games; a silver medal in the women’s 50m freestyle, bronze in the 50m backstroke, and gold in the 100m freestyle.{{cite web |title=Throwback Thursday: Argentina’s Betiana Basualdo |url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/throwback-thursday-argentina-s-betiana-basualdo |publisher=Paralympics |access-date=June 28, 2021 |date=June 15, 2017}} Following this, Basualdo competed at the 1998 IPC Swimming World Championships where she won a silver medal in the women's 200 meter freestyle and bronze in the women's 50 meter backstroke.{{cite web |title=Betiana Basualdo |url=https://www.paralympic.org/betiana-basualdo |publisher=Paralympics |access-date=June 28, 2021}}

After failing to medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, Basualdo won three bronze medals at the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Argentina.{{cite web |title=2002 IPC Swimming World Championships |url=https://oepc.at/downloads/Ergebnislisten_Weltmeisterschaften/WM-Schwimmen_2002_Mar_del_Plata_ARG.pdf |access-date=June 28, 2021}} Basualdo eventually returned to the Paralympic podium in 2004 after placing third in the women's 100 m freestyle behind Spain's Sara Carracelas García and Great Britain's Danielle Watts.{{cite web |title=Results Archive: Athens 2004 |url=https://www.paralympic.org/athens-2004/results/swimming/womens-100-m-freestyle-s2 |publisher=Paralympics |access-date=June 28, 2021}}