Paola Duguet

Paola Duguet (born October 1, 1987, in New York, United States)[1] is a Colombian-American Olympic freestyle swimmer.

She consistently ranked among the Top16 fastest swimmers in her age group through the years, winning many Metropolitan Junior Olympics High Point Awards and competing in 8 consecutive Eastern Zone Championships.

With her Badger Swim Club teammates, Kim Kelly, Bridget O'Connor, and Whitney Sprague, they broke one of the longest standing U.S. National Age Group Records in the 15–16-year-olds 800-freestyle relay held by Mission Viejo Swim Club.

In 2003, she participated in her first Colombian National Championships, the first step towards representing that country in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

In February 2004 she represented Colombia in the 2004 South American Championships in Maldonado, Uruguay, corroborating her qualifying times for Athens and winning bronze in the 800 m freestyle.