coach club birth_place weight nationality height birth_date article_title strokes name collegeteam
rick curl -lrb- usa -rrb- carderock springs swim club -lrb- usa -rrb- washington , dc , united states 75 kg lb 0 on per state peru 1.90 0 on 27 february 1981 juan pablo valdivieso
 butterfly juan pablo valdivieso princeton tigers -lrb- usa -rrb-
juan pablo valdivieso

juan pablo valdivieso -lrb- born february 27 , 1981 in washington , d.c. , united states -rrb- is a retired peruvian swimmer , who specialized in butterfly events .
valdivieso holds a dual citizenship between his parents ' nation peru and the united states , where he currently resides .
he is also influenced by his grandfather juan valdivieso , who played for peru 's soccer team at the 1936 summer olympics in berlin .
valdivieso started swimming for the carderock swim team at the age of five .
during his teenage years , he tried out for the south american junior championships , before competing at the u.s. senior nationals .
in 1999 , he graduated from landon school in bethesda , maryland , and deferred his acceptance to princeton university for a year , so that he could train for his first olympics .
valdivieso made his official debut at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney , where he competed in the men 's 200 m butterfly .
swimming in heat two , he edged out thailand 's dulyarit phuangthong to earn a fourth spot and thirty-sixth overall by 0.48 of a second in 2:03.67 .
at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , valdivieso extended his program , competing in two individual events .
he achieved a fina a-cut of 2:00.03 -lrb- 200 m butterfly -rrb- from the usa national championships in college park , maryland .
in the 200 m butterfly , he challenged seven other swimmers in heat four , including top medal favorite takashi yamamoto of japan .
he rounded out the field to last place and twenty-eighth overall by 0.90 of a second behind hungary 's dávid kolozár in 2:02.79 .
in the 100 m butterfly , valdivieso placed forty-seventh on the morning 's preliminaries .
swimming in heat three , he saved a seventh spot over algeria 's aghiles slimani by 0.24 of a second with a time of 55.98 .
between his two olympic stints , valdivieso attended princeton university in new jersey , where he majored in political economy and became a captain of the swimming team for the princeton tigers .
