PARIS, Sep. 6 (by EUROPA PRESS special correspondent Ramón Chamorro) –
The swimmer from Burgos, Marta Fernández, said goodbye to the Paralympic Games in Paris on Friday without being able to participate in the 50m butterfly S5, where she won a medal three years ago in Tokyo, due to physical discomfort that prevented her from participating in the morning heats that were unfavourable for the Spanish team.
According to the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), the three-time medallist at La Défense Arena was unable to swim because one of her shoulders was ‘injured’ and the medical service recommended that she rest in a test where she was runner-up in Tokyo 2020.
Thus, Marta Fernández leaves the French capital, where she arrived with an ambitious goal of swimming five days in a row, with a silver (100 freestyle S3) and two bronzes (50 backstroke and 50 breaststroke), and now has a total of six Paralympic medals.
The athlete from Castilla-León was one of the best hopes that swimming would add another 15 medals, one more than those achieved three years ago in Tokyo, which she already has in a penultimate day that was not excessively good since only two swimmers made it to their respective finals.
In the afternoon, the only swimmers to compete in the finals at La Défense Arena will be the visually impaired swimmer José Ramón Cantero, in the 100m butterfly S11, and Daniel Ferrer, a swimmer from the Spanish Federation of Sports for People with Cerebral Palsy and Acquired Brain Damage, who will compete in the 50m freestyle S3. The 16-year-old Anastasiya Dmytriv, a three-time Paralympic medallist, did not qualify for the final of the 100m butterfly S9.