Anita Alvarez

Team USA synchronised swimmer Anita Alvarez was saved from drowning for the second time after the gallant actions of her coach Andrea Fuentes at the 2022 ...

I had to jump in because the lifeguards weren’t doing it. With the distressing occurrence initially evading the attention of those in attendance, Fuentes dived in and succeeded in propelling herself off the foot of the pool with Alvarez in tow, receiving the aid of an unnamed male swimmer in dragging her out of the water to receive swift medical attention. The four-time Olympic medallist was competing in the final of the woman’s solo free event when she startingly blacked out and plummeted to the depths of the sizeable competition pool near the end of her swim.

"I went as quickly as I could as if it were an Olympic final," said Andrea Fuentes, describing how she rescued a swimmer that had fainted underwater.

"She wasn't breathing. And speaking to Spanish radio, she said: "It felt like a whole hour. all is OK. "Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is OK. "I was scared because I saw she was not breathing, but now she is doing very well. American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was "not breathing" when she was rescued from the bottom of the pool after fainting at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.

Anita Alvarez was rescued by Team USA head coach Andrea Fuentes from the bottom of the pool.

Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is OK. I think it was the craziest and fastest free dive I’ve ever done in my career. “We sometimes forget that this happens in other high-endurance sports. They didn’t react,” Fuentes was reported as saying by the newspaper. She suffered a similar reaction during an Olympic qualifier in Barcelona last year. I’m like that, I can’t just stare.

In what was a shocking incident, USA swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach Andrea Fuentes on Wednesday (June 22).

Nonetheless, she met with disappointment as the youngster failed to reach the podium after finishing seventh and the gold medal was secured by Japan's Yukiko Inui. Marathon, cycling, cross country ... we all have seen images, where some athletes don't make it to the finish line and others, help them to get there." "She only had water in her lungs, once she started breathing again everything was OK," said Fuentes. "It felt like a whole hour. "She wasn't breathing ... I went as quickly as I could as if it were an Olympic final," Fuentes added. Seeing the 25-year-old's state, her coach Fuentes, without a moment of hesitation, jumped into the pool. "It was a big scare.

U.S. artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez is OK after fainting at the end of her free solo final routine at the world championships in Budapest on Wednesday.

Solo artistic swimming is not on the Olympic program. “It was a good scare, I had to dive because the lifeguards didn’t do it,” Fuentes said, according to the newspaper. Spanish newspaper Marca reported that Fuentes, a retired Spanish Olympic artistic swimmer, was one of the people who dove in.

Team USA Artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued by her coach after she appeared to faint in the water during the world championships in Budapest on ...

"Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is okay." "We all have seen images where some athletes don’t make it to the finish line and others help them to get there." Marathon, cycling, cross country," she continued.

Anita Alvarez, an American artistic swimmer, lost consciousness while performing her solo routine in Budapest. She was “fine” afterward, her coach said.

Our sport is no different than others, just in a pool, we push through limits and sometimes we find them.” Fuentes was hailed for her quick thinking, but she knew what to do because she had done it before. On Wednesday, Fuentes, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt, saved Alvarez again. Alvarez is a two-time Olympian. She finished ninth in the duet event at the 2016 Rio Games and placed 13th in the competition at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Games last summer in Japan. She is competing in the world championships for the fourth time. She did not rule out having her returning for the team event later this week. Fuentes said Alvarez, who was treated by medical staff, had gone about two minutes without breathing as water filled her lungs.

American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was in danger of drowning after losing consciousness in the pool at the world championships in Budapest on Wednesday ...

She has to rest." "I jumped into the water again because I saw that no one, no lifeguard, was jumping in. It was a good scare, to be honest," Fuentes told Spanish newspaper Marca on Wednesday.

American swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, ...

Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is okay." "We sometimes forget that this happens in other high-endurance sports. Later, came the lifeguard."

Artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez, who was dramatically rescued from the bottom of the pool after fainting, has yet to decide whether to return to the pool for ...

Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is OK." I think it was the craziest and fastest free dive I've ever done in my career. They didn't react," Fuentes was reported as saying by the newspaper. "We sometimes forget that this happens in other high-endurance sports. "I think she was at least two minutes without breathing because her lungs were full of water. "Anita is doing fine and taking today to rest.

Two-time Olympics swimmer Anita Alvarez fainted and sank to the bottom of the pool during Wednesday's World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.

It remains unclear what caused Alvarez to collapse but the sport often requires swimmers to hold their breath. Alvarez, she said, taught the group a TikTok dance. “We have all seen images where some athletes do not make it to the finish line and others help them get there. Alvarez, from Tonawanda, N.Y., began artistic swimming, more broadly known as synchronized swimming until 2017, at the age of 5. Following the incident. Two-time Olympics swimmer Anita Alvarez fainted and sank to the bottom of the pool during Wednesday’s World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. Her coach on Team USA, Andrea Fuentes, dived in to save her, scooping her limp body up and rushing her back to the water’s surface.

American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was in danger of drowning after losing consciousness in the pool at the world championships in Budapest before being ...

"I jumped into the water again because I saw that no one, no lifeguard, was jumping in. She has to rest." It was a good scare, to be honest," Fuentes told Spanish newspaper Marca.

Artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool in a distressing scene at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.

American swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, ...

Four years later, she made the team, finishing ninth in the duet at Rio 2016. Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is okay." Japan's Yukiko Inui claimed gold, while Ukrainian Marta Fiedina and Evangelia Platanioti of Greece came second and third respectively. "We sometimes forget that this happens in other high-endurance sports. She was 13th in the same event at Tokyo 2020. "Ms. Alvarez was immediately treated by a medical team in the venue and is in good health," the statement read.

"I saw that the lifeguards were not jumping into the water because they were paralyzed," Team USA coach Andrea Fuentes said. Luckily for athlete Anita ...

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Andrea Fuentes prevented a tragedy at the world swimming championships in Budapest on Wednesday. Fuentes, a four-time Olympic medalist in synchronized ...

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A big scare occurred Wednesday at the FINA World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, when American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez lost consciousness ...

- Fuentes won four Olympic medals during her career, three silvers and one bronze. “The way the schedule was set up, I was the only athlete competing in both events that day and again the next morning. - “I think a lot of things mixed together led to that,” Alvarez is quoted as saying in Sullivan’s story.

As U.S. artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez performed at the world championships, her coach noticed something was wrong: Alvarez was at the bottom of the pool.

“Whether that’s in the water for me or on the sidelines will be determined by myself and expert medical staff,” Alvarez wrote. “I appreciate all of the messages of support and hope everyone can respect that my team and I still have 2 more days of competition to be focused on here in Budapest.” “Anita has been evaluated by medical staff and will continue to be monitored” USA Artistic Swimming said in a statement posted Thursday to

U.S. artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez is OK after fainting at the end of her free solo final routine at the world championships in Budapest on Wednesday.

Solo artistic swimming is not on the Olympic program. Anita feels good now and the doctors also say she is okay.” And that’s literally the last thing I remember, actually.” Two people dove in to help get her out of the pool, including U.S. head coach Andrea Fuentes, a retired Spanish Olympic artistic swimmer. Our sport is no different than others, just in a pool, we push through limits and sometimes we find them. It’s such a simple, small arm, but I was giving everything until the very end, and I did that, and then I remember going down and just being kind of like, uh-oh, I don’t feel too great.

The 25-year-old dual-Olympian has thanked her supporters after a medical emergency in the pool at the FINA World Championships.

"You see this happening in our sport, and for free divers also. There's no option that you're going to go down to relax." "I'm used to seeing them every day. Fuentes says there were lifeguards on patrol at the event, but told MARCA that "I had to jump in because the lifeguards weren’t doing it". I see them more than my kids. The USA artistic swimming team said in a statement that watching the incident was "heartbreaking for our community", but that Alvarez was "already feeling much better".

Anita Alvarez took to Instagram to say she was 'OK and healthy' and hinted she may yet compete again at World Championships.

Anita Alvarez, a Team USA Artistic swimmer who was dramatically rescued by her coach after fainting during the world aquatics championships in Budapest on ...

"Like, my best one by far and not only just how I performed, but just that I was actually enjoying it and really living in the moment, too," he said. "It all happened really fast." "Just so grateful to have her as a coach."

US artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez fainted during her individual routine in Budapest on Wednesday afternoon and she was dramatically rescued by her coach, ...

'Going in the second swim that evening was extra nerve-wracking for me,' she said. The coach said she motioned to lifeguards for help but they did not see her, 'so I jumped in myself. 'The artistic swimming family is such a tight-knit community across the world, and it was upsetting to see an athlete in that situation. In any case in the team events Anita does a lot of pirouettes and very few apneas so she will almost certainly compete.' I had to jump in because the lifeguards weren't doing it,' Fuentes said afterwards. She's said she wants to swim in the final.' 'Nice to see Alvarez smiling with her team around,' the coach wrote. A lifeguard dived in to assist, but the coach has since criticised the response of staff at the venue and the sport's governing body, FINA, has reportedly launched an investigation. Alvarez regained consciousness after being recovered from the water, received immediate first aid and was reportedly recovering well. Of the incident, she added: 'I remember feeling like it was a really great performance. When I found out she was coming to be our coach, it was like, I didn't believe it.' She (Anita Alvarez) is one of them.

US artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez, who was dramatically rescued from the bottom of the pool after fainting in her solo routine, was omitted from the team ...

On Wednesday, AFP's underwater robot camera captured astonishing images as Alvarez sank and her coach, Andrea Fuentes dived to the bottom of the pool and dragging the swimmer to the surface. Alvarez had been entered in the team event on Friday and was on every official startlist until just before the event was scheduled to begin when she was replaced on the eight-woman team by Yujin Chang. Alvarez fainted and dropped to the bottom at the end of her individual routine on Wednesday and was saved by her quick-thinking coach, Andrea Fuentes.