Spain, bronze in the mixed 4×100 medley relay

It’s twenty-one. The Spanish Paralympic team has a new medal in the Paris 2024 Games because he 34-point 4×100 medley medley relay This Monday the bronze medal at the end of the day at La Défense Arena.

Núria Marquès, Óscar Salguero, Iñigo Llopis and Sarai Gascón got a record of 4:29.39 and surpassed only by Australia (Jesse Aungles, Timothy Hodge, Emily Beecroft and Alexa Leary, 4:27.08) and for Netherlands (Olivier van de Voort, Chantalle Zijderveld, Florianne Bultje and Thijs van Hofweegen, 4:28.07). Anastasia Dmytriv and José Antonio Maríwho swam in the morning, also received their bronze medal.

These twenty one medals are distributed to five gold, four silver and twelve medals bronze The pool continues to be a good place to fish for medals and it was shown by the members of a relay where everyone was able to achieve their goal in the search for the podium.

It has been Marquis to swim the first backstroke leg. With the Netherlands pulling all the time, Núria passed in third position to Oscar Salguero. This one, in the butterfly, dropped to fifth position. however, Llopis has regained positions to be second and Gascon He finished with the front crawl medal.

In this way, Spain continued its brilliant performance in the Lá Défense pool. The medal was Llopis’ second of these Games, while his three teammates made their debuts on the medal table.

The Spaniards were very happy after their medal. “The feelings are very positive. A relay in a stadium like this, the truth is it’s a lot of fun and I think we all enjoyed and suffered until the end,” he said. Marquis.

is coincidental Salguero. “I had the mentality of wanting to get rid of this little point that I was stuck onto show that I can do it, that I’ve worked hard these months, that even if I have an injury I can do it. I was super convinced and I think that has allowed me to bring out the best version of myself,” he highlighted.

He now has gold on his counter Llopis. “We were able to start better and with this relief, all four of us competed in the afternoon and José and Tasy, who competed in the morning, made a good time,” he celebrated. “We tried to leave the best possible situation for Sarai”he added.

GasconIn fact, it did not fail. “The relay, personally, is a test that always motivates me. The team always took extra beyond what I had and, as Íñigo said, we became a team of six,” he concluded.

Marian Polo almost won the medal

Spain was one step away from another medal on the day. Marian Polo He was fourth in the S13 50 freestyle final, where in 27.64 seconds he was just four hundredths away from the podium. It was for Brazilian Maria Carolina Gomes (26.75), for American Gia Pergolini (27.51) and for Italian Carlotta Gilli (27.60). Emma Feliu He was seventh with 27.99 seconds.

Besides, Luis Huerta he was eighth in the 100 breaststroke SB4. He clocked 1:53.97 in the final won by Russian Dmitrii Cherniaev (1:32.20) ahead of Greek Antonios Tsapatakis (1:36.16) and Italian Manuel Mateo Bortuzzo (1:42.52).

In the women’s 100 breaststroke SB4, Berta Garcia then sixth. She clocked 1:57.99 to beat Italian Giulia Ghiretti (1:50.21) in a tight final against Hungarian Fanni Illes (1:50.25), with Chinese Jiao Cheng third (1:51.70).