Arsenio López
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Arsenio Alexander López Rosario |
| Nickname(s) | "Alex" |
| National team |
 Puerto Rico
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| Born |
May 3, 1979 Humacao, Puerto Rico |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke, medley |
| Club | Bolles School Swim Club |
| College team | University of Florida |
| Coach | Gregg Troy |
Arsenio Alexander López Rosario (born May 3, 1979), also known as Alex Lopez, is a Puerto Rican former swimmer and three-time Olympian who specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events.
Lopez was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico. He attended the Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was a member of the Bolles School Swimming Club. Lopez accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he competed for the Florida Gators swimming and diving team under coach Gregg Troy. He majored in civil engineering at the university.
Lopez made his Olympic debut, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He failed to reach the top 16 final in any of his individual events, finishing twenty-seventh in the 200-meter individual medley (2:06.99), and twenty-fifth in the 400-meter individual medley (4:34.81). He also placed seventeenth, as a member of the Puerto Rican team (including finalist Ricardo Busquets), in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay (3:28.27).
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Lopez decided to drop two of his events from Atlanta, and experiment with the 100-meter breaststroke. He finished in a first-place tie with Latvia's Valērijs Kalmikovs on the fourth heat with a time of 1:04.02. In the 200-meter individual medley, he raced to a fourth seed in heat three by 0.07 of a second behind South Korea's Han Kyu-Chul in 2:06.49. Lopez did not qualify for the semifinals, finishing thirty-fourth each in all of his events from the heats.
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