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Place of Birth: Necochea, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
About Eduardo Germán Otero
- Eduardo Germán Otero (born February 4, 1980) is an Argentine former swimmer, who specialized in backstroke and butterfly events.
- He is a three-time Olympian, a multiple-time national record holder, and a two-time champion for the 50 m backstroke at the South American Games.
- He is also a member of Club Nadadores del Rio Plata, and is coached and trained by Marcelo "Yuri" Quaglia.Otero's Olympic debut came at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- There, he failed to reach the top 16 in any of his individual events, finishing fortieth in the 100 m backstroke (58.09), and thirty-fourth in the 200 m backstroke (2:05.51).
- He also placed eighteenth as a member of the Argentine team in the 4 × 100 m medley relay (3:43.61).
- Teaming with Sergio Ferreyra, Pablo Martín Abal, and José Meolans, Otero swam a backstroke leg with a split of 58.00 seconds.On his second Olympic appearance in Athens 2004, Otero decided to drop his specialty event, the 200 m backstroke, and experiment with the 100 m butterfly.
- He also qualified for the 100 m backstroke by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 56.36 from the South American Championships in Maldonado, Uruguay.
- Otero repeated his luck from Sydney, as he rounded out to last place in heat three and thirty-third overall with a time of 57.28.
- In the 100 m butterfly, Otero placed forty-fourth on the morning's preliminaries.
- Swimming in the same heat, he posted a lifetime best of 55.24 to earn a fourth spot by nearly half a second (0.50) behind winner Jeong Doo-Hee of South Korea.Eight years after competing in his first Olympics, Otero qualified for his third Argentine team as a 28-year-old at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- He achieved an Olympic B-cut of 56.38 seconds from the national trials in Buenos Aires.
- He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including fellow three-time Olympian and former finalist Örn Arnarson of Iceland.
- Otero raced to seventh place by 0.19 of a second behind Ukraine's Oleksandr Isakov in 56.74.
- Otero failed to advance into the semifinals, as he matched his position from Sydney in the preliminaries.
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