2023-05-19 20:08:05
The Spanish swimmer Ona CarbonellBye now captain of the national synchronized teamhas announced this Friday that he is retiring after more than 20 years in the elite and after participating in three Olympic Games, in which he has added a silver and a bronze, in addition to 34 other metals between World and European Games.
The Barcelona swimmer was able to celebrate medals in Games, World Cups and Europeans in many artistic disciplines, since the first one was hung at the Melbourne World Cup in 2007. A bronze in technical team that opened the successful path of Catalan, which now leaves the professional practice of synchronized with 32 years and after stopping her career to be a mother.
Carbonell can boast of being the woman with the most medals in the history of the World Swimming Championships and one of the most decorated Spanish sportswomen. Her 23 medals in World Cups, being the last three in the South Korea 2019 event, place her in the synchronized swimming topnow artistic, but also at the top of all swimming modalities.
The Barcelona player surpasses the historical record in World Cup medals Natalia Ischenkowith 21 medals between 2005 and 2015, and also left behind the siren who exploded synchro in Spain; Gemma Mengual — won 20 medals in World Cups–. In addition, it remains in third place in the ranking of absolute world medalistsbehind Ryan Lochte (27) i Michael Phelps (33).
Until now captain of the national team, she established herself just two years after her debut, starting to collect the 23 World Cup and 12 continental medals on her record, in addition to the two Olympic medals.
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