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Roy Barahona

Roy Barahona

Honduran swimmer (born 1986)

Roy Felipe Barahona Fuentes (born March 20, 1986) is a Honduran swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events.[1] Barahona qualified for the men's 200 m butterfly at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 2:06.14.[2] He challenged six other swimmers in heat one, including 15-year-old Sergey Pankov of Uzbekistan. He set a lifetime best of 2:05.99 to pull off a third-place finish by 0.28 of a second behind Indonesia's Donny Utomo. Barahona failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-fourth overall in the preliminaries.[3][4][5]

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    Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Roy Barahona". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
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    "Swimming – Men's 200m Butterfly Startlist (Heat 1)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
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    "Men's 200m Butterfly Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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    Thomas, Stephen (16 August 2004). "Men's 200 Butterfly, Prelims Day 3: Michael Phelps and Japan's Yamamoto Tie As Fastest Qualifiers; Tom Malchow will be there too". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2005. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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    "Latinoamericanos nadan con éxito esta jornada en Atenas" [A successful swim day for Latin America in Athens] (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
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