The AXA Paralympic Swimming League celebrates its third stage in Castellón

MADRID, 21 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Open Comunitat Valenciana, which will be held this April 22 and 23 at the Gaetà Huguet Municipal Pool, in Castellón, will mark the third day of the AXA Paralympic Swimming League in the 2023 season, with a hundred athletes from 33 clubs including that include a good handful of internationals from the Spanish team.

Swimmers from the Spanish Federations of Sports for the Blind (FEDC), of People with Physical Disabilities (FEDDF), Intellectual Disability (FEDDI) and Cerebral Palsy and Acquired Brain Injury (FEDPC) participate in the AXA League.

Paralympic medalists such as Nuria Marqués, Sarai Gascón, José Antonio Mari and David Levecq will be in the pool in the Castellón capital; world champions, such as Jacobo Garrido, and world champions and participants in the Games such as Eva Coronado, Sergio Martos, Carlos Martinez, Ariadna Edo and Marián Polo, all of them with a past in the AXA Paralympic Swimming Team.

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 12:30 p.m., with subsequent trophy delivery ceremonies.

The AXA Paralympic Swimming League celebrates its second edition, thanks to the collaboration of the AXA Foundation with the Spanish Paralympic Committee and the four Spanish Sports Federations for People with Disabilities.

The tests of this 2023 will serve so that the athletes can arrive in the best moment of form to the great event of the year, the World Championship that will take place in Manchester, from July 31 to August 6. Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca have been the first two stops of the competition this year.