Pilar Shimizu

Career

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, aged 16, she became the youngest Olympian from Guam. She ranked 42nd in the 100 m breaststroke event and did not advance to the semifinals. While qualifying for the Olympics she broke the 20-year-old national record set by Tammie Kaae, another Olympian from Guam.

Shimizu learned to swim at age four and started training at age seven.

Achievements

• Her first international success came in 2010, when she won the first medal for Guam at the Oceania Swimming Championships, a bronze in the 100 m. Two years later, she won two more bronze medals, in the 50 m and 100 m events.