MADRID, 18 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The last day of the Paralympic Swimming World Championship that was held in Funchal, on the island of Madeira, saw the brilliant emergence of a 13-year-old girl as one of the great stars of the national future, Anastasiya Dmytriv.
The woman from Almería from the Mare Nostrum Club in El Ejido (Almería), with a disability in one arm, was proclaimed world champion in the 100m breaststroke of the SB8 class, with a time of 1:21.40 with which she beat the current Paralympic champion , the Irish Ellen Keane.
With Dmytriv’s gold and five other medals (the silvers of Óscar Salguero and Toni Ponce and the bronzes of Sarai Gascón, David Sánchez and the 4×100 relay free of physical disability), Spain ends the Madeira World Cup with more than double the number of medals from the previous world championship, a total of 29, eighth place in the medal table.
Salguero got the silver medal in the same event as Anastasiya Dmytriv, the 100 breaststroke SB8. The Catalan swimmer with a disability in one arm stopped the clock in 1:11.74 and only gave up first place by 17 hundredths to the Chilean Vicente Enrique Almonacid. Meanwhile, Ponce won a new silver medal in the 100-meter freestyle class of his physical disability S5, closing the World Championship with six medals, two gold.
Another great star of the Spanish team won his fourth medal in the World Cup. Sarai Gascón achieved bronze in the pure speed test, the 50 free in her class S9 (physical disability). A half hour later she went back into the water to take part in the 4 x 100 free mixed physical disability relay, along with Íñigo Llopis, Nahia Zudaire and Ariel Schrenck.
The team took third place in an intense final, behind Italy and the United States. The bronze was also hung by David Sánchez, from Huelva with a physical disability, in the 50 butterfly of the S6 class, beating his Spanish record with 32.38.