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Macarena Ailen Ceballos
Personal information
Born (1995-01-12) 12 January 1995 (age 31)
Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
Sport
SportSwimming
Medal record
Representing  Argentina
Women's swimming
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place2023 Santiago100 m breaststroke
South American Games
Gold medal – first place2022 Asunción100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place2014 Santiago100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place2022 Asunción200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place2022 Asunción4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2022 Asunción4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place2022 Asunción50 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place2022 Asunción100 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place2022 Asunción4×100 m mixed medley

Macarena Ceballos (born 12 January 1995) is an Argentine swimmer. who specializes in breaststroke events. She achieved prominence at the 2013 Sudamericano Juvenil de Deportes Acuáticos and the 2014 South American Games. Throughout her career, she has represented Argentina at the Pan American Games, where she won a bronze medal in 2023, the World Aquatics Championships, and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where she finished 15th overall in the 100-meter breaststroke.

Early life and career

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Ceballos was born in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, on 12 January 1995. She began her athletic journey in gymnastics before transitioning to competitive swimming in 2003, later representing the Escuela de Natación Municipal de Río Cuarto during her student years.[.[1] She won gold medals at the 2013 Sudamericano Juvenil de Deportes Acuáticos in both the 100-meter breaststroke (1:12.67)[2] and the 200-meter breaststroke (2:34.38).[3] In the relay events at the same championship, Ceballos joined the Argentine squad to a silver medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay alongside teammates Camila Biotti, Belén Díaz, and Rocío Corra,[4] and secured another silver in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay with Josefina Lorda replacing Biotti.[5]

She continued her competitive swimming at the 2014 South American Games, where she won the silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke in 1:11.00 seconds, losing to Julia Sebastián, who set a time of 1:10.40 seconds, followed by Mercedes Toledo at 1:11.56 seconds, who took bronze.[6] In the same year, she won a gold medal in the 100-meter breaststroke and Silver in the 50- and 200-meter breaststroke, which qualified her for the 2015 Pan American Games.[7] At the Maria Lenk Trophy, she won a silver in the 200 m breaststroke and a bronze in the 100 m breaststroke, while Sebastian won both gold medals.[8] In 2015, at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix, she won gold in the 4×100 medley with Virginia Bardach, Andrea Berrino and Aixa Triay.[9] She competed in the women's 100 meter breaststroke event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.[10][11]

In the 2023 Pan American Games, she won a bronze medal after losing to Rachel Nicol and Sophie Angus from Canada.[12] She competed in the 2024 Summer Olympics and placed in 15th position.[13]

Award

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She won the Jorge Newbery Gold Award in 2025 as one of the year's best Argentine athletes.[14] She has already won this award multiple times since 2023.[15]

References

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  1. ↑ Maschwitz, Eduardo (6 July 2015). "CEBALLOS, Macarena". ENARD (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 January 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  2. ↑ Arellano, Daniel (15 March 2013). "Chile logra tres medallas en primera jornada del Sudamericano Juvenil de Deportes Acuáticos". El Deportero (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Natación: Gran cosecha de medallas para Argentina". MDZ Online (in Spanish). 18 March 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Macarena Ceballos, oro y plata en el Sudamericano Juvenil". Altoquedeportes. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  5. ↑ "Campeonato Sudamericano archivos - Página 2 de 3". Hall de Honor de la Natación Argentina (in Spanish). 15 March 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  6. ↑ "Brasil se titula campeón de la natación de los Juegos Odesur 2014". Yahoo News (in Spanish). 11 March 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  7. ↑ "Macarena tuvo un gran Sudamericano y piensa en el Panamericano". LV16 (in Spanish). 6 October 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  8. ↑ Maschwitz, Eduardo (10 April 2015). "NUEVO PODIO CON JULI SEBASTIÁN Y MAKI CEBALLOS". Ente Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 December 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  9. ↑ Anderson, Jared (22 June 2015). "2015 Arena Pro Swim Series at Santa Clara: Jaeger's 14:56 in 1500 free highlights day 4 finals". SwimSwam. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  10. ↑ "Heats results". FINA. Archived from the original on 26 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  11. ↑ "2017 World Aquatics Championships > Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  12. ↑ Free, Ava (29 November 2023). "Alberta swimmers reflect on their medal-winning races at Pan-Am Games". Calgary Journal. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  13. ↑ Pelshaw, Anya (25 November 2024). "Argentina To Send Three Swimmers To 2024 Short Course World Championships". SwimSwam. Archived from the original on 25 November 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  14. ↑ Cicutti, Fernando (2 December 2025). "Macarena Ceballos, premiada en Argentina". SwimSwam (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  15. ↑ Cicutti, Fernando (9 December 2024). "Macarena Ceballos, nuevamente premiada en Buenos Aires". SwimSwam (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 May 2026.
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