Beyond the double silver and bronze of Núria Marquès and Tasy Dmytriv in the 200 medley SM9, the Spanish team is present in four more finals on the day of swimming this Thursday at Games in Paris. In all of them the podiums were contested.
The day of the finals opened Nahia Zudaire in 100 breaststroke SB7. It ended with them quarteralthough far from women on the podium. Russian Mariia Pavlova flew to a world record 1:26.09 after dominating her rivals from the first length, where she was two seconds ahead of them. Britain’s Iona Winnifrith was second in 1:29.69 and Canadian Tess Routliffe third in 1:31.58. Zudaire finished in fourth place with 1:33.48 after leaving four seconds behind the leader and two with rivals for bronze in the first length, a huge distance to try to make up in the second.
In fifth position ended the 20-point mixed 4×50 medley relay. China won with a world record of 2:24.83 ahead of the United States (2:31.01) and Ukraine (2:31.53, European record). Spain clocked 2:40.14. He stayed Tony Ponce back to back-to-back starts and delivered his baton in sixth position at Miguel Luque in the breaststroke, who gave up elsewhere. Martha Fernandez He took over with a considerable distance to his rivals, but dropped to eighth place. At last length, a good post by Sarai Gascón This helped him gain three places and leave Spain fifth. On the front end, China is given no options.
Fifth It is also in 100 breaststroke SB13 Marian Polo. With 1:19.37, she could not climb the podium occupied by the British Rebecca Redfern (1:16.02), the American Olivia Chambers (1:17.70) and the American Colleen Young (1:18.52). Polo fought to the end for fourth place, which went to Irish Roisin Ni Riain (1:19.16). In the beginning, Redfern took a test in which he was not given a choice. In it, Polo started in sixth place, but gained a place after the turn and was one step away from taking another.
He has no option to win positions in 200 style SM9 Jian Wang Escanilla. Spanish finished eighth with 2:22.69 to Australian Timothy Hodge’s Paralympic record 2:13.31 victory, below compatriot Matthew Cowdrey’s 2:13.60 at a distant Beijing 2008. Frenchman Ugo Didier (2:15.98) and Hector Denayer (2:17.34) closed out the podium. Escanilla landed the butterfly and touched the wall eighth in the first fifty. Although he regained the spot in the backstroke, he dropped back to eighth position in the breaststroke and did not let it go.
Source: La Verdad
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