Teresa Rivera Pastrana (born April 24, 1966) is a former female
backstroke and
freestyleswimmer from
Mexico. She participated in two consecutive
Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1980. Her best result was a 6th place in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay at the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow,
Soviet Union. She won three bronze medals at the Panamerican games in 1979.
She later retired from swimming and became a teacher teaching Health 101 to Freshmen at the American School Foundation of Mexico City. Also, she is the head of the swimming department swimming at ASF.