MADRID, Jan. 24 (SportsFinding) –
The pool of Valdesanchuela, in the Madrid town of Valdemoro, will host this weekend a new edition of the Spanish AXA Championship of Paralympic Swimming Promises, which will also have the incentive that several Spanish swimmers of the Spanish team will try to beat world records .
A total of 150 athletes under 18, 94 boys and 56 girls, will compete in this event. As reported by the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), 63 belong to the Spanish Sports Federation of People with Physical Disabilities, 43 from the Intellectual Disability, 30 from the Cerebral Palsy and Brain Injury and 14 from the Blind, which will be divided in the categories of fry (2008-later), children (2005-2006-2007) and youth (2002-2003-2004).
One of the great names of this Spanish Championship will be that of the Galician Jacobo Garrido, currently in the AXA Team and that last September in London he was proclaimed world champion of 400 free meters of the S9 class for physically disabled with 17 years .
Next to him, there will be other promises of the future such as Iker Aizpuru (FEDDF), Enrique Alhambra (FEDC), Amira Bencherqui (FEDDF), Claudia Brito (FEDDF), Sandra Díaz (FEDDF), Pablo Errando (FEDDF), Aitana Estrada (FEDPC ), Daniel Ferrer (FEDPC), Beatriz Lérida (FEDDF) and Nahia Zudaire (FEDDF).
In addition, Garrido himself will be one of the swimmers who will try to break world records during the championship dispute. The Coruñés will try in the 1,500 meters free S9, as will the Valencian Ariadna Edo, while Nuria Marquès will also try their fortune (50 back S9); Adur Mendivil, Íñigo Llopis and María Delgado (200 back S7, S8 and S12) and Sergio Martos (200 butterfly s8).
This championship is part of the AXA Project of Paralympic Swimming Promises, created in 2011, whose objective is to serve as a preliminary step for athletes who can subsequently join the ADOP Plan and become part of the Spanish Paralympic Team in future international competitions.
The goal is to achieve a high level of performance for selected swimmers in the medium and long term, through technical training and specialization plans, assistance to national and international competitions, and support for coaches and clubs, with an eye on the Games of Paris 2024.
In the delivery of trophies, scheduled for Sunday 26 at 1:00 p.m., the president and director of the AXA Foundation, Olga Sánchez and Josep Alfonso, will participate; the presidents of the CPE, Miguel Carballeda, of the FEDDF, José Alberto Álvarez, and of the FEDPC, Julián Rebollo, and the mayor of Valdemoro, Sergio Parra, among other authorities.