Claudia Poll (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens is an Costa Rican Olympic gold-medalist and National Record holding swimmer from Costa Rica. To date, she is Costa Rica's only gold-medalist, having won the country first gold Olympic medal at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 free. Her sister, Silvia, won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal at the 1988 Games. Also as of 2009, Claudia and Silvia are the only Costa Ricans to have won a medal at an Olympics. Claudia also competed at the 2000 Olympics, where she won 2 bronze medals. Moreover, she was the first to win a gold medal in the whole Central America, an event which later occurred again in the 2008 Oylimpic Games when Panama won a gold medal. Claudia Poll began swimming in 1979 under coach Francisco Rivas and quickly became one of the best in Central America, winning many regional titles. At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics she won the Gold medal in the 200 m Freestyle event. The win was the first gold medal for Costa Rica in a summer Olympic game