National team Costa Rica Strokes Freestyle Weight 75 kg | Sport Swimming Height 1.83 m Stroke Freestyle swimming | |
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Full name Estebán Blanco Uhlenhaut Born 16 December 1981 (age 35) ( 1981-12-16 ) San José, Costa Rica | ||
Estebán Blanco Uhlenhaut (born December 16, 1981) is a Costa Rican former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. Representing Costa Rica at the 2000 Summer Olympics, he currently holds a national record in the 50 m freestyle that stood for more than a decade.
Blanco competed only in the men's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He achieved a FINA B-standard entry time of 23.87 from the Central American and Mexican Championships in his hometown San José. Swimming in heat three, Blanco powered past the entire field to a top seed in a new Costa Rican record of 23.72. Blanco's blistering triumph was not enough to put him through to the semifinals, as he placed forty-fifth overall out of 80 swimmers in the prelims.