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Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens (born 21 December 1972) is a former Costa Rican swimmer who competed in the 200 m to 800 m freestyle events. She is Costa Rica's only Olympic gold-medalist, having won the country's first Olympic gold medals at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 meter freestyle.[1] She is a multiple national record holder in the freestyle events.

Claudia Poll
Poll in 2011
Personal information
Full nameClaudia María Poll Ahrens
Nationality Costa Rica
Born (1972-12-21) 21 December 1972 (age 49)
Managua, Nicaragua
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubAsociación de Natación Cariari
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Costa Rica
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta 200 m freestyle
2000 Sydney 200 m freestyle
2000 Sydney 400 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
1998 Perth 200 m freestyle
2001 Fukuoka 400 m freestyle
1994 Rome 200 m freestyle
1994 Rome 400 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
1995 Rio de Janeiro 200 m freestyle
1995 Rio de Janeiro 400 m freestyle
1997 Gothenburg 200 m freestyle
1997 Gothenburg 400 m freestyle
Pan Pacific Championships
1993 Kobe 200 m freestyle
1997 Fukuoka 200 m freestyle
1997 Fukuoka 400 m freestyle
1993 Kobe 400 m freestyle
1997 Fukuoka 800 m freestyle
1993 Kobe 800 m freestyle
1995 Atlanta 200 m freestyle
1999 Sydney 400 m freestyle

Her sister, Silvia, won Costa Rica's first Olympic medal, the silver medal, at the 1988 Games. As of 2021, 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 two bronze medals.

Moreover, she was the first person from Central America to win a gold medal, and the only person to do so, until the 2008 Olympic Games when Irving Saladino of Panama won a gold medal.


Career


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 the Summer Olympic Games. It was a surprising win because she beat the favorite German Franziska van Almsick. Dagmar Hase, also from Germany, won the bronze.

In 1997, she was named by Swimming World Magazine as the Female Swimmer of the Year.[2]

At the Sydney 2000, Poll continued with her medal run and won two bronze medals. In Athens 2004, she just missed out on the 400 m freestyle final, finishing ninth in the heats.

In 2002, she was given a four-year doping ban after a failed test for norandrosterone, a metabolite the steroid nandrolone. Her ban was later reduced by FINA to two years. Poll claimed that the test and sampling methods were flawed and protested her innocence.[3]

At the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, she set the Games Records in the 200 and 400 freestyles (2:00.19 and 4:15.01), bettering the time her sister Silvia set at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games.[4]

Poll served as a swimming analyst for the U.S. Telemundo network's Spanish-language coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, though she and most of the Telemundo broadcast crew performed their duties at the network's studios in Hialeah, Florida, accompanied by video provided by Olympic Broadcasting Services.[5]


Honors



Personal


Claudia’s parents are both German, but they moved to Nicaragua before starting a family. Claudia and her sister Silvia were both born in Managua, Nicaragua, but moved shortly after Claudia’s birth in 1972. Political tensions were rising and after an earthquake that shook the city, the family decided it would be safer to move to Costa Rica. She, her sister Silvia, and their mother are not related to Marlene Ahrens, another Olympic athlete and medalist and another Latin American of German descent.

Claudia graduated in Business Administration from the Universidad Internacional de las Américas, San José, Costa Rica, in 1998. Poll became a mother for the first time on August 8, 2007. Her daughter's name is Cecilia. Claudia's older sister Silvia Poll was also a competitive swimmer who won a silver medal in 1988, Costa Rica's first ever Olympic medal.


See also



References


  1. Claudia Poll first Costa Rican Olympic gold medalist, International Women’s Day
  2. Swimming World Magazine Presents: WORLD SWIMMERS OF THE YEAR
  3. Claudia Poll's Ban Is Cut; she's Cleared for Athens 2004[permanent dead link]. Swimming World Magazine (2003-09-24). Retrieved on 2012-08-25.
  4. Women's 200 free[permanent dead link] and 400 free-prelim[permanent dead link]/final[permanent dead link]. 2006 Cartagena. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  5. Telemundo press release, July 25, 2012
  6. Swimming World Magazine presents: World Swimmers of the Year
  7. Entrevista, 76 kilos de oro (Spanish) Archived 2004-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
Records
Preceded by
Incumbent
Women's 400 metre freestyle
world record holder (short course)

April 18, 1997 January 26, 2003
Succeeded by
Awards
Preceded by
Penny Heyns
World Swimmer of the Year
1997
Succeeded by

На других языках


- [en] Claudia Poll

[it] Claudia Poll

Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens (Managua, 21 dicembre 1972) è un'ex nuotatrice costaricana. Specializzata nello stile libero ha vinto tre medaglie ai Giochi olimpici, di cui una d'oro. È la sorella minore di Silvia Poll.

[ru] Полл, Клаудия

Кла́удия Мари́я Полл А́ренс (исп. Claudia María Poll Ahrens; род. 21 декабря 1972, Манагуа) — коста-риканская пловчиха, олимпийская чемпионка и чемпионка мира.



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