Name: Cristian Quintero
Country: Venezuela
Events: Men's Swimming 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m Freestyle
Trojans already know Cristian Quintero has the ability to completely dominate a meet. In his final season at USC, he carried the program to its first conference championship since 1979, winning 2015 Pac-12 Championships Swimmer of the Meet.
With a busy schedule in Rio, he will hope to do the same for Venezuela. The Caracas native will swim four freestyle events, showing his world class sprinting ability.
At USC, Quintero was a 17-time All-American and captured six NCAA titles. He was a seven-time Pac-12 individual champion who also swam on seven conference relay titles. He is among USC's top 2 fastest ever in the 100y, 200y and 500y free and among the top 7 in the 50y, 1000y and 1650y free.
Quintero will be competing in his second Olympics. He swam in three races at the 2012 Olympics in London, taking 16th in the 400m free, 22nd in the 200m free and 15th in the 400m free relay.
