Alberto Zorrilla or Victoriano Zorrilla called El Zorrilla de Oro (born the April 6th 1906 with Buenos Aires, Argentine - died the April 23rd 1986 with Miami, the United States) was a Argentinian swimmer , which was the first South American Olympic champion , becoming one of the characters symbolic systems of the history of swimming in Argentine.

Biography

At the time of the Olympic Games of Amsterdam, in 1928, Victoriano Zorrilla were opposite finally of the 400 m freestyle to stars of the discipline like the Australia N Andrew Charlton or the Swedish Arne Borg, which was the big favorites of the test. And, it is however the Argentin young person 22 years who asserted himself, in the time of 5:01.6.

In 1976, it was allowed in the International Swimming Hall off Famed (Temple of Re-elected swimming), created in 1965 with Fort Lauderdale, in Florida by old the Olympic champion and actor Johnny Weissmüller.

Prize list

• Olympic Games
• Gold medal on 400m freestyle at the time of the Olympic Games of summer of 1928 with Amsterdam Netherlands

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