Andrea FUENTES (ESP)
FOR THE RECORD: 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES: silver (duet), bronze (team); 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES: silver (duet, team); 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES: diploma, 4th (team); 2011 FINA World Championships: silver (solo free event) bronze (solo tech, duet free, duet tech, team free and team tech) ; 2009 FINA World Championships: gold (combo) silver (duet free, duet tech, team free, team tech); 2007 FINA World Championships: silver (team free), bronze (team tech); 2005 FINA World Championships: bronze (team, combo); 2003 FINA World Championships: silver (combo) 4th (team); 2001 FINA World Championships: 5th place (team)
In 1999, at 16 years old, Andrea Fuentes had just joined the Spanish National team. The team was ranked tenth in the world, but by using a series of innovative new lifts, throws and hybrids, they slowly rose to the World Championship podium, tying for silver in the new event of the team free combination in 2003, and fourth in team. The next year, Spain took fourth in team again, at the Olympic Games in Athens.
Following the 2005 World Championships, Andrea was tapped as a potential duet partner for then Spanish star Gemma Mengual. At the World Cup in 2006 she took silver in duet with Mengual, swimming the technical routine.
Andrea had her most successful Olympic Games in Beijing, winning the silver medal in both duet and team, coming within a single point of the gold. In 2009, at the Roma World Championships, she swam away with one gold and four silver medals.
With Mengual taking a break, Andrea began training with a new partner, Ona Carbonell and with her, won her third Olympic silver medal in London, 2012, in duet, along with a bronze in team.
After her retirement as an athlete in 2013, Andrea married Spanish Olympic gymnast Victor Cano. Together, the pair began giving private lessons, coaching, and clinics around the world.
In 2018, Andrea was asked to lead USA Artistic Swimming from a ranking of 12th in the world, back to the Olympic podium. In 2024, Andrea guided the US team to the silver medal in Paris, returning the USA to the podium for the first time in 20 years. After the Paris Games, she returned home to Spain with her husband and two children, as Head Coach of the Spanish National Team.
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ISHOF Class of 2025
Anthony Ervin (USA) Honor Swimmer
Ryan Lochte (USA) Honor Swimmer
Federica Pellegrini (ITA) Honor Swimmer
Joseph Schooling (SIN) Honor Swimmer
Ous Mellouli (TUN) Honor Open Water Swimmer
Chen Ruolin (CHN) Honor Diver
Endre “Bandi” Molnar (HUN) Honor Water Polo Player
Andrea Fuentes (ESP) Honor Artistic Swimmer
Gregg Troy (USA) Honor Coach
Captain Husain Al Musallam (KUW) Honor Contributor
Sachin Nag* (IND) Honor Pioneer Swimmer
Guo Jingjing (CHN) Honor Diver (Class of 2016)
*deceased
The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) is proud to announce this truly international Class of 2025. This year, ISHOF will induct 12 honorees from nine countries. In addition, ISHOF will be inducting Honorees from four new countries that we have never had Honorees inducted from before, Kuwait, India, Tunisia, and Singapore.