The finals day this Tuesday in swimming at Paris 2024 Paralympic Games there was a large Spanish presence. More than silver by Núria Marquès and Marta Fernándezincluding Teresa Perales was fifth In Fernández’s 100 freestyle, four other Spaniards swam the finals, but did not compete for medals.
The final of 50 butterflies S6. In it I have no options to fight for medals David Sanchezwho graduated sixth. With a time of 32.99, Sánchez was unable to cope with the devastating pace imposed by the leading men after the start. Here, Chinese Jingang Wang took the lead to become the champion in 31.24 seconds, ahead of Colombian Nelson Crispín (31.53) and French Laurent Chardard (31.65).
In its part, José Ramón Cantero finished seventh in the final of 200 styles SM11. With a time of 2:39.40, he was nowhere near the first positions commanded by Dutchman Rogier Dorsman with a Paralympic record of 2:18.36, well below his 2:19.02 from Tokyo and only thirty-five hundredths of his own world record. . Ukrainian Danylo Chufarov was second in 2:19.81 and Czech David Kratochvil was third in 2:24.60. Cantero was seventh after the butterfly and backstroke and, although she gained the position in the breaststroke, she gave it back in the final part of the front crawl.
Not winning places in the final 50 back S5 Toni Ponce. It ended there eighth with 38.46 seconds to the Chinese triplet of Weiyi Yuan (32.47), Jincheng Guo (33.02) and Lichao Wang (33.06). It was Wang who was shooting early in the final after taking advantage of his best starting momentum. However, Yuan chased him a few meters from the goal to go for the gold and Guo also got past him in the touch of a tackle. Meanwhile, Ponce was left at the start and unsuccessfully jockeyed for seventh position with Japanese Kaede Hinata (38.23).
I closed the day to others Marian Polo placed eighth in the 200 styles SM13. Among them she started in seventh position, but soon moved up to eighth to see how gradually the women at the front were slipping away. She closed in that position with 2:35.37 despite battling for seventh to the end with American Colleen Young (2:34.95). Victory went to Italian Carlotta Gilli in 2:25.33 after a hard sprint with American Olivia Chambers (2:25.90), with bronze for Irish Roisin Ni Riain (2:27.47).
Source: La Verdad
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