Juan Pablo Valdivieso

Juan Pablo Valdivieso (born February 27, 1981) is an American-born Peruvian former butterfly swimmer, who swam for Princeton University and represented Peru in the 200-meter butterfly in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 100 and 200-meter butterfly in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Valdivieso was born at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 1981 to Peruvian parents. He holds a dual citizenship between his parents' nation Peru and the United States, where he was born and currently resides. He may have been influenced in his athletic pursuits by his grandfather Juan Valdivieso, who played for Peru's soccer team at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Valdivieso started swimming for the Carderock Swim Team at the age of five. During his teenage years, he tried out for the South American Junior Championships, before competing at the U.S. senior nationals.

In 1999, he graduated from Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, maintaining an exceptional 4.0 grade average, and deferred his acceptance to Princeton University for a year, so that he could train for his first Olympics. Provided by Wikipedia