Jean Laurent Ravera

{{Short description|Monegasque swimmer (born 1979)}}

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| national_team = Monaco

| strokes = Freestyle

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Jean Laurent Ravera (born August 29, 1979) is a Monegasque former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.{{cite sports-reference|title = Jean Laurent Ravera|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/jean-laurent-ravera-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418091151/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/jean-laurent-ravera-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 7 May 2013}} Ravera qualified for the men's 100 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 56.86.{{cite web|title=Swimming – Men's 100m Freestyle Startlist (Heat 2)|url=http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000104060026000000FFFFFFFFFFFF00|format=PDF|work=Athens 2004|publisher=Omega Timing|access-date=23 April 2013}} He challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including three-time Olympian Aleksandr Agafonov of Uzbekistan. He rounded out the field to last place by five hundredths of a second (0.05) behind Iran's Babak Farhoudi in a lifetime best of 56.47. Ravera failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed sixty-second overall out of 71 swimmers in the preliminaries.{{cite web|title=Men's 100m Freestyle Heat 2|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics_2004/swimming/results/3535064.stm|work=Athens 2004|publisher=BBC Sport|date=18 August 2004|access-date=31 January 2013}}{{cite news|last=Thomas |first=Stephen |title=Men's 100 Freestyle Prelims Day 4: Lezak, Crocker Fail to Qualify. Hoogie Best with 48.70 |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7852.asp |publisher=Swimming World Magazine |date=17 August 2004 |access-date=19 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403104714/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/7852.asp |archive-date= 3 April 2007 }}{{cite web|title=Athens Olympics|url=http://www.comite-olympique.mc/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=150&lang=en|publisher=Comité Olympique Monégasque|access-date=7 May 2013}}