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Full name
  
Jennifer Fratesi

Name
  
Jennifer Fratesi

National team
  
Canada

Height
  
1.73 m

Sport
  
Swimming

Weight
  
68 kg

Strokes
  
Backstroke, butterfly


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Born
  
April 20, 1984 (age 39) (
1984-04-20
)
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Club
  
Region of Waterloo Swim Club, Kitchener-Waterloo Swimming Centre

Ontario Aquatic Hall of Fame 2016 - Jennifer Fratesi


Jennifer Fratesi (born April 20, 1984) is a Canadian former competition swimmer who specialized in backstroke events. Fratesi set a Canadian record of 2:11.16 in the 200-metre backstroke at the 2001 FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, but lost a bronze medal by 0.11 of a second to Great Britain's Joanna Fargus. Fratesi was a member of Kitchener-Waterloo National Swimming Centre, and she was coached and trained by Richard Buwaj.

Fratesi qualified for the women's 200-metre backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by attaining an A-standard entry time of 2:12.36 from the 2003 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. In the morning's preliminary heats, Fratesi recorded the sixth fastest time of 2:13.00 to advance to the semifinals. On the evening session, she missed out of the next day's final by two hundredths of a second (0.02) behind British swimmer and world champion Katy Sexton, lowering her Olympic time to 2:12.64. Fratesi also teamed up with Erin Gammel, Lauren van Oosten and Brittany Reimer for the women's 4x100-metre medley relay. Swimming the butterfly third leg, Fratesi recorded a time of 1:01.60, and the Canadian team went on to finish the second heat in sixth place, in a total time of 4:09.84.

References

Jennifer Fratesi Wikipedia