MADRID, 9 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Barcelona Swimming Club will serve as host this weekend to kick off the third edition of the AXA Paralympic Swimming League, where some of the best Spanish swimmers such as Nuria Marqués, Toni Ponce, Marta Fernández, Íñigo Llopis will meet. , Jacobo Garrido, Nahia Zudaire, David Levecq or María Delgado, who will seek the minimum mark to be present at the Paris Games this coming summer.
Barcelona will be the first stop of a competition that will have another six stops in Palma de Mallorca (February 24 and 25), Torrevieja (April 13 and 14), Valladolid (May 4 and 5), Madrid (May 6 and 7 July), Cádiz (November 16 and 17) and Oviedo (December 14 and 15).
In total, 226 swimmers (142 boys and 84 girls), belonging to 25 clubs, will meet this Saturday and Sunday at the Nova de l'Escullera Pool in Barcelona to compete in a total of more than 30 events in a competition that is developed under the multi-disability system by which all swimmers compete together regardless of their degree or type of impairment and the one who comes closest to the world record in their class wins. Nuria Marquès and Toni Ponce will defend their victories from the last edition.
The AXA League is organized by the Spanish Federations of Sports for the Blind (FEDC), of People with Physical Disabilities (FEDDF), with Intellectual Disabilities (FEDDI) and with Cerebral Palsy and Acquired Brain Injury (FEDPC), in close collaboration with the Foundation AXA and the Spanish Paralympic Committee.
The AXA League was born in 2022 with the objective that athletes with disabilities have more opportunities to compete and improve their records throughout the season, something that becomes even more important in a year like this, on the verge of the Games. Paralympics.
All of this is part of the insurer's commitment to Paralympic swimming, together with the AXA Paralympic Promises Team, which helps young people with the greatest projection to reach the high level, and the AXA Spanish Championships, which brings together more and more people every year. of a hundred swimmers with disabilities under 18 years of age. The company has also supported the ADOP Plan since 2007.