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Full name | José Nicolas Mafio Plada | |||||||||||
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Born | Maldonado, Uruguay | 29 September 1978|||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||
Coach | Daniel Garimaldi | |||||||||||
Medal record
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José Nicolas Mafio Plada (born September 29, 1978) is a Uruguayan former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Mafio qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.52 from the Argentina Long Course Nationals in Mar del Plata. [2] Mafio touched out Jamaica's Jevon Atkinson to hit the wall first in the fourth heat by three hundredths of a second (0.03) in 23.58. [3] Mafio failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fiftieth out of 86 swimmers in the prelims. [4] [5]
After his Olympic appearance, Mafio remained active in the swimming community, training Chilean Paralympian Vicente Almonacid. [6]
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Full name | José Nicolas Mafio Plada | |||||||||||
National team | ![]() | |||||||||||
Born | Maldonado, Uruguay | 29 September 1978|||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||
Coach | Daniel Garimaldi | |||||||||||
Medal record
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José Nicolas Mafio Plada (born September 29, 1978) is a Uruguayan former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. [1] Mafio qualified for the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.52 from the Argentina Long Course Nationals in Mar del Plata. [2] Mafio touched out Jamaica's Jevon Atkinson to hit the wall first in the fourth heat by three hundredths of a second (0.03) in 23.58. [3] Mafio failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fiftieth out of 86 swimmers in the prelims. [4] [5]
After his Olympic appearance, Mafio remained active in the swimming community, training Chilean Paralympian Vicente Almonacid. [6]