Antonella Scanavino

Who is Antonella Scanavino?

Antonella Scanavino Crespo is a Uruguayan swimmer, who specialized in butterfly and individual medley events. At age fifteen, she became one of the youngest swimmers to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is the daughter of Carlos Scanavino, a long-distance freestyle swimmer, who won silver at the 1987 Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and had competed in two Olympic games. Following her father's footsteps, she held eight national records for the butterfly and medley events in both long and short course swimming.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Scanavino competed for the women's 100 m butterfly, held on the first day of the swimming event. She finished second in the first heat by two hundredths of a second behind Senegal's Binta Zahra Diop, with a time of 1:04.28. Scanavino, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed forty-eighth in the overall rankings.