Helmut Levy
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| Full name | Helmut Arturo Levy Quintero | ||||||||||||||
| National team | Columbia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 16, 1959 Ibagué, Tolima, Columbia [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | breaststroke freestyle | ||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Miami | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Bill Diaz (U. Miami) | ||||||||||||||
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Helmut Levy (born 16 March 1959) is a Colombian former swimmer who competed for the University of Miami and participated in both the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[2]
Helmut Levy was born 16 March 1959 in Ibagué, Tolima, Columbia.[1]
College swimming
[edit]Levy attended Indian River State College, and the University of Miami where he was an All American. At Miami, he was coached by Bill Diaz, who crafted Miami into one of America's elite swimming programs during his coaching tenure from 1971-1984. Showing diverse stroke skill in February 1979, while swimming for Miami, Levy placed second in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:08.97, and third in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:55.22.[3] in a meet against Tennessee.[4][5]
While representing Columbia in international competition, Levy captured gold medals in the 200m breaststroke and 200m individual medley at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games. H was ranked globally among the top 12 swimmers for two consecutive years in the 200m individual medley.[1] Levy won five gold medals at the Sudamerican Swimming Championship in May 1978.[5]
After his career as a competitive swimmer ended, Levy served as a swimming coach for special needs children, founding Global Adaptive Aquatics. He has served over thirty years as a coach working with special needs children.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Olympedia Biography, Helmut Levy". olympedia.org. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Helmut Levy". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 16 April 2012. Retrieved 20 May 2012.
- ^ "Tennessee Routs Miami Hurricanes", The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, February 13, 1979, pg. 153
- ^ "University of Miami Sports, Bill Diaz Biography". www.umsportshalloffame.com. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
- ^ a b c "Global Adaptive Aquatics, Coach Helmut Levy". globaladaptiveaquatics.org. Retrieved March 20, 2025.
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