Claudia Franco

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Claudia Franco
Personal information
Full nameClaudia Maria Franco Solana
National team 
Madrid, Spain
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubReal Canoe NC
College teamStanford University (U.S.)
University of Florida (U.S.)
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Spain
European Championships (LC)
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Vienna 4×100 m medley

Claudia Maria Franco Solana (born 21 July 1975), also known as Claudia Franco Walsh, is a former competition

Summer Olympics
.

Early years

Franco was born in

Barbara Franco. Both sisters attended Mission Viejo High School in Mission Viejo, California
, where they swam for the Mission Viejo high school swim team.

College career

Franco attended the

All-American honors.[2] She subsequently transferred to Stanford University
in Palo Alto, California, where she won five NCAA championships as a member of Stanford's national championship team in 1996.

International career

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, Franco competed in the 50-meter freestyle, the 100-meter freestyle, and the 4x100-meter freestyle relay.[1] She finished twenty-first in the world in both individual events, and the Spanish women's team finished thirteenth in the relay.[1] At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, she was again a member of the Spanish Olympic team, and finished eleventh in the 50-meter freestyle, and twenty-first in the 100-meter freestyle, and was a member of the Spanish relay teams that finished fourteenth in the 4x100-meter freestyle and 4x100-meter medley relay events.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Claudia Franco. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Florida Swimming & Diving 2011–12 Media Supplement Archived May 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida (2011). Retrieved April 14, 2012.