MADRID, 22 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The World Swimming Center ’86 in Madrid will be the scene this weekend of the International Open for Inclusive Swimming of the Community of Madrid, the fourth stage of the AXA League of this sport and in which more than a hundred athletes will compete with and without disabilities, including some internationals of the Spanish team.
Swimmers from the Spanish Federations of Sports for the Blind (FEDC), People with Physical Disabilities (FEDDF), Intellectual Disability (FEDDI) and Cerebral Palsy and Acquired Brain Injury (FEDPC) participate in the AXA League.
On this occasion, as indicated by the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), as it is an inclusive event, swimmers with and without disabilities, as well as men and women in the same series, take the start jointly.
A total of 106 swimmers, 64 of them with disabilities, and from 21 clubs will meet at the Madrid pool, with special mention to internationals such as Iván Salguero, José Ramón Cantero, Juan Ferrón or Enrique Alhambra, the latter a member of the Team AXA of Paralympic Promises, which will also be represented by Beatriz Lérida and Lidia Jiménez, and who, together with Salguero and Cantero, was part of the Spanish relay teams that won two silver medals at the recent World Championships in Madeira.
The competition will consist of two sessions, one on Saturday afternoon between 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and another on Sunday morning between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., approximately.
The AXA Paralympic Swimming League was born this year thanks to the collaboration of the AXA Foundation with the CPE and the four Spanish sports federations for people with disabilities in order to provide greater opportunities to compete and improve performance.
The circuit consists of six scoring events throughout 2022 that will result in the first absolute champion at the individual level, using the multi-disability system in which all swimmers compete together regardless of their degree or type of impairment and the winner is the one with the most come close to the world record in its class.
In each stage, the swimmers aim to achieve the highest number of multi-disability points necessary to win the gold, silver and bronze jerseys with which the final winners will be awarded in this new competition.