Yamilé Bahamonde

Who is Yamilé Bahamonde?

Loren Yamilé Bahamonde Cabello is an Ecuadorian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She is a sixteen-time national record holder in the freestyle, and a two-time bronze medalist at the 2006 South American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Bahamonde qualified for the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 26.32 from the Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine, California, United States. She challenged seven other swimmers on the sixth heat, including returning Olympian Ellen Lendra Hight of Zambia. She touched out Christel Simms of the Philippines to snatch a third spot by a tenth-second deficit, in a time of 26.54 seconds. Bahamonde failed to advance into the semifinals, as she shared a forty-fourth-place tie with Hong Kong's Elaine Chan in the preliminary heats.