2023-08-06 22:57:17
Dmytriv, on his 15th birthday, and Marta Fernández put the finishing touch with two golds on the last day
The Spanish Paralympic team also achieves 9 places for the Paris 2024 Games
MADRID, 6 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish Paralympic team finished the Manchester 2023 Paralympic Swimming World Championship this Sunday with a total of 28 medals (6 gold, 13 silver and 9 bronze), with the last two gold won by Anastasiya Dmytriv and Marta Fernández.
Spain, which finished eighth in the medal table, also achieved nine qualifying places for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. On the last day of the competition, two gold medals came from great stars of the Spanish team, Anastasiya Dmytriv in the 100-meter breaststroke SB8 and Marta Fernández in the 100 free S3.
On her 15th birthday, Dmytriv, with a disabled arm, managed to revalidate her world champion title and get a place in the Paris Games. Meanwhile, Marta Fernández, with cerebral palsy, became the Spanish swimmer with the highest number of metals in Manchester 2023, with a total of five: two golds in the 50 and 100 freestyle S3, one silver in the 150 medley SM3 and two bronzes, in 50 breaststroke SB3 and the 4×50 mixed medley relay 20 points.
Along with Fernández, Íñigo Llopis and Anastasya Dmytriv were also proclaimed twice world champions this week. Llopis won gold in the S8 100m backstroke and Dmytriv in the SB8 100m breaststroke, while both were also part of the Spanish relay world champion in the 4×100 mixed styles for swimmers with physical disabilities (34 points).
Among the stars of the Spanish team, four swimmers who leave Manchester with four medals each also stand out: Toni Ponce (gold in the 100 breaststroke SB5, silver in the 200 medley SM5 and 200 freestyle S5 and bronze in the 4×50 mixed medley relay 20 pts.) , Sarai Gascón (gold in 4×100 mixed styles 34 pts. and three bronzes in 200 styles and 100 freestyle S9, plus the 4×50 mixed styles relay 20 pts); María Delgado (three silvers, in the 100 butterfly and the two 4×100 mixed relay visually impaired and bronze in the 100m backstroke S12) and Quique Alhambra (three silvers, in the two 4×100 mixed relay visually impaired and in the 100m backstroke S13 and bronze in the 100m butterfly S13 ).
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