Valerie Gruest
 Gruest in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Valerie Gruest |
| Nationality | Guatemalan |
| Born | 14 March 1999 |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
Valerie Gruest (born 14 March 1999) is a Guatemalan swimmer who competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Gruest was born on 14 March 1999. She took four national swimming records before she joined Northwestern University in Illinois in 2015. The Sports Writers’ Association of Guatemala voted her "Rookie Athlete" of the year.[1]
Gruest competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle and 800m freestyle events at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Valerie Gruest.
- ^ Northwestern commit Valerie Gruest Slowing.., Swimswam.com, Retrieved 8 August 2016
- ^ "Valerie Gruest". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
External links
[edit]- Valerie Gruest at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1999 births
- Living people
- Guatemalan female swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Guatemala
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- Pan American Games competitors for Guatemala
- Swimmers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Guatemalan female freestyle swimmers
- 21st-century Guatemalan women
- North American swimming biography stubs
- Guatemalan sportspeople stubs