Anita Alvarez Fainting Video and Picture Is Storming On Social Media

At the world championships in Budapest, Anita Alvarez had a blackout and fell to the bottom of the huge pool near the end of her swim competition. 

The woman competing in the final of the woman's solo free event was instantly saved from drowning by her instructor Andrea Fuentes. As Fuentes watched Alvarez hit the bottom, he immediately dove into the water and rescued her.

American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach after fainting at the World Aquatics Championships.#BBCSwimming

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) June 23, 2022

She received medical assistance next to the pool and regained consciousness before being taken away on a stretcher.

It was not the only time Anita dodged a drowning issue; on June 13 of last year, she collapsed during an Olympic qualification match held in Barcelona. Fuentes saved her then as well.

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Anita Alvarez is fine now. According to her rescuer Fuentes's statement given to the US Artistic Swimming, Alvarez will get a medical evaluation on Thursday before any decision is made about her participating in the next competition happening on Friday.

In the words of Fuentes, "Anita is much better, she is already at her best. It was a good scare, to be honest." The ace swimmer had nothing serious but a little unconscious moment, and the medical staff worked rapidly to revive her.

Despite this incident, Alvarez received 87.63333 points to place seventh in the final. Yukiko Inui of Japan won the competition scoring 95.3667 in a spectacular manner.

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The four-time Olympic medalist, Anita Alvarez is from Amherst, New York. She started her acclaimed swimming career after graduating from Kenmore West Senior High School in 2014.

Alvarez, the synchronized swimmer, is a previous winner of two bronze medals in the 2019 Women's Championship she competed for the United States. The team won the Artistic Swimming Championships.

She had her training for indoor swimming in Western New York before she participated in the 2015 World Championships in Kazar and 2014's Junior World Championship.

The prolific swimmer is also a member of the national swimming team for the USA who participated in the women's summer Olympics in 2016 alongside Maria Koroleva. Likewise, she was chosen for USA Synchro and successfully represented her country at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

The recent news of her getting benumbed and drowning in the pool caught everyone in a panic, fortunately, Alvarez was saved from the danger.

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