SWIMMERS from Paraguay

1. Mike Barrowman (b. 1968)

With an HPI of 42.76, Mike Barrowman is the most famous Paraguayan Swimmer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Michael Ray Barrowman (born December 4, 1968) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Barrowman was one of the pioneers of the "wave-style" breaststroke technique. Prior to attending University of Michigan, he trained with Montgomery Square Copenhaver Swim Club and the Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club in Maryland. Barrowman was born December 4, 1968 in Asunción, Paraguay. Mike's father was an army cartographer, requiring the family to relocate often. Barrowman began swimming by the age of five and lived in Rhode Island through the age of 11, where he swam for the Cumberland Lincoln Boys Club, setting several New England and Rhode Island State age-group records. By 13, around 1981, Barrowman moved and lived in greater Potomac, Maryland. He attended Potomac's Winston Churchill High School, where he swam for the school team and the Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club through most of his High School years. In 1986, Barrowman began swimming with the Curl-Burke Swim Club, where he was coached by one of his most influential mentors, Hungarian-born Hall of Fame Coach Jozsef Nagy, who helped Barrowman focus on breaststroke. Nagy first introduced the "wave-action" breaststroke technique and had competed internationally for his native Hungary in the stroke. Barrowman eventually trained with Nagy's Curl-Burke Swim Club in Washington D.C., around 20 miles Southeast of Potomoc, Maryland, though they currently also have training facilities in Maryland.