Filipe Santos breaks the World Record for Down Syndrome in the 50 moths

This Sunday, the Algarve native Filipe Santos set a new World record for Down Syndrome in the 50 meters moth, in the S21 category, in the Adapted Swimming National Winter Championship, which took place at the Vila Franca de Xira Municipal Swimming Pool.

The FC Ferreiras swimmer recorded a mark of 32,68, below the previous world maximum of 34,00 that had been held by Italian Paolo Manauzzi since 2012.

For his part, João Pina guaranteed the minimum for the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The Gesloures swimmer, in category S2, registered 5.50,53 in the 200 freestyles.

“I was hoping to get the minimums, but a better time came out of what I expected. They are good indicators for the rest of the season. I still want to improve this brand further to definitely guarantee my presence in the Paralympic Games”, said the athlete at the end of the competition.

According to the athlete from the Loures club, "I had never seen so many participants in a National adapted swimming", considering that "it was an organization very well achieved by the Portuguese Swimming Federation" which for the first time organized an adapted swimming competition after the inclusion of the subject.

João Pina is the first swimming athlete adapted to obtain minimums for Rio de Janeiro.

Seven minima were also obtained for the Glasgow World Cups, from 10 to 20 July, through Amadeu Cruz (Feira Viva), in the 400 freestyles (6.34,95), in S11, David Grachat (Gesloures), in the 400 freestyles ( 4.36,09), in S9, Nelson Lopes (Colégio Vasco da Gama), in the 200 freestyle (4.10,58), in S4, and 50 backstroke (56,07), in S4, David Carreira (Bairro dos Anjos), in the 100 moth (1.07,77), in S8, in the national relay (David Grachat, David Carreira, Gino Caetano and Ivo Rocha), in the 4×100 freestyles (5.07,16), with 34 points, and 4×100 styles (5.33,82 .34), with XNUMX points.

In competition were 123 athletes (88 male and 35 female) representing 27 teams.

The Adapted Swimming National Winter Championship was organized by FPN with the support of Vila Franca de Xira City Council.