Full name Talia Barrios Sport Swimming National team Peru Strokes Freestyle | Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Name Talia Barrios Weight 53 kg (117 lb) | |
Born 22 November 1980 (age 43) ( 1980-11-22 ) Lima, Peru | ||
Talía Barrios (born November 22, 1980) is a Peruvian former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She represented Peru at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and also trained for the Bolles School Swim Club in Fort Lauderdale, Florida under head coaches Larry Shofe and Gregg Troy.
Barrios competed only in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She achieved a FINA B-cut of 27.22 from the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Russian import Yekaterina Tochenaya of Kyrgyzstan, and Yugoslavia's two-time Olympian Duška Radan. She saved a seventh spot over Guinea's Aissatou Barry by a wide margin of 7.68 seconds in 28.11. Barrios failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed fifty-second overall out of 74 swimmers in the prelims.