Unai Biel, CNAB youth player, is at the Paris Olympic Games

The first athlete from the Barceloneta Atlètic Swimming Club to jump was the jumper Santiago Uliowho participated in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games At age 14, he was the youngest of all the competitors.

Ramon Artigasin Amsterdam 1928, Joan Fortunein Tokyo 1954 and Mexico 1968, Sarah Perezin Athens 2004, and Antonio Arroyoin Rio 2016, are the swimmers who have so far represented the CNAB at the biggest event in world sport.

Forty water polo players, from the youth team or those active that year in the senior team, participated in the biggest international sporting event. The first water polo player trained in the Barceloneta range to participate in the Olympic Games was Manuel Ibernin Mexico in 1968. Alfons Canovas, Manolo Delgado, Michael Perez, David Martin, Roger Tahull, Marc Roca and Albert Spanish They are among the young players who appear on the list of Olympians of the Club.

In Paris, a new name was added, First Biel Lara, 100% marine. Born in Barcelona on November 19, 2002, since he can remember, becoming an Olympian has always been his dream: “In the CNAB categories, he watched the Champions League matches and admired the players who would later represent their respective Olympic Games team. ”, he declared recently.

It is gradually increasing. First entered the CNAB first team, then became part of the Spanish Junior Team and later participated in the training of the Absolute Team. “You train with players who have been Olympic, who tell you what it’s like. You hallucinate and say I’m here. Achieving this is a dream. Really looking forward to starting and enjoying the experience. Now it’s time to compete in highest level.

Felipe Perrone, Alberto Munarriz, Alex Bustos, First Aguirre, Bernat Sanahuja, Roger Tahull, Martin Famera, Miguel de Toro and Marc Larumbe will accompany First Biel in the call for David Martin for the Paris Olympic Games.

Santi Fernandez, general director of the Atlètic-Barceloneta Swimming Club, highlights: “The Club is proud to contribute 10 players to the list of 13 called by the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation.” And he added: “From the Club, we managed to ensure that the athletes complete their sporting life cycle in the municipal facilities of the CNAB, as in the case of Unai Biel.” Young athletes come to CN Atlètic-Barceloneta with their schools, through municipal sports initiation campaigns, and go to the Club’s sports schools. They continue their evolution in training categories, then in competition and, finally, they end up among the world’s elite. All within the same sports facility, without having to leave your environment and your city.”