Arsenio López, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Puerto Rican swimmer, Olympic athlete
Date of Birth: 03-May-1979
Place of Birth: Humacao, Puerto Rico, United States
Profession: swimmer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Arsenio López
- 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 Valerijs 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. Lopez shortened his program at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when he swam only for the 100-meter breaststroke.
- He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.01 from the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- He challenged seven other swimmers in the same heat as Sydney, including four-time Olympian Ratapong Sirisanont (Thailand), who was later disqualified for a false start.
- Lopez posted a time of 1:03.99 to take a second seed by a 1.02-second margin behind winner Jakob Johann Sveinsson of Iceland.
- Lopez ended his third Olympic stint by sharing a thirty-fifth place tie with New Zealand's Ben Labowitch on the morning prelims.
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