The Spanish Open in Palma de Mallorca kicked off in style on Tuesday. The Olympic team left the first Olympic classification of the week, accompanied by a Spanish record in the 100 backstroke. Its star is Carmen Weiler.
With a time of 59.65 seconds, Weiler swam below the Spanish record of 59.76 seconds that he himself had from the 2023 Spring Open In this way, Weiler started a personal best in the qualifying rounds of a championship where the its big focus is. in this test.
In it he achieved his goal for the first time. Weiler dropped the 59.99 seconds required as the Olympic minimum to attend the Paris Games. In this way, he reserved his Olympic ticket because he had to make sure that no two Spaniards would surpass him and reduce that time in the final of the evening, something that was meant to be a formality because there were none close to those. passing hours at this distance.
So, barring any unforeseen problems, Weiler will stamp his first ticket to the Olympic Games this Tuesday. The Canoe swimmer is compounding the great improvement she showed last year and will make her debut in an Olympic event. He became the fourth Spaniard to qualify for the Games after Hugo González, Mario Mollá and Carlos Garach, who already have a secure ticket from the final World Cups in Fukuoka and Doha. That’s why Weiler achieved the first Olympic place in this Open.
He did this despite the fact that his time was not enough for him to tie for the first position of the preliminary. It was for the Canadian Kylie Masse, who with 59.19 seconds broke the championship record. The Mediterrani swimmer made a good start in his favouritism, but he swam with Weiler in the afternoon with the Spanish option to see if he could continue scratching a few hundred off his national record.
Two candidates for the Games showed good feelings at the start, in their case in the 200 backstroke. Estella Tonrath was third in the hectometer with 1:01.02, with África Zamorano fourth with 1:01.96. The two, who have been able to swim Olympic minimum times for the long event in recent months, will also enter the final where they aim to fight for the podium.
Source: La Verdad
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