Career
He is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2000), and a Costa Rican record holder in the 50,100 and 200 m breaststroke (long course and short course). Madrigal made his Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he competed only in the 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat two, he held off Namibia"s Jorg Lindemeier by three hundredths of a second (003) to pick up a third seed in 1:05.47.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Madrigal qualified for a breaststroke double.
In the 100 m breaststroke, held on the first day of the Games, Madrigal established a new Costa Rican record of 1:05.14 to lead the second heat, but ended up overall in forty-eighth place. Three days later, in the 200 m breaststroke, Madrigal placed forty-third on the morning prelims.
Swimming in heat three.
