Michelle Alonso Morales makes history at the Paralympic Games. The Tenerife swimmer has once again climbed to the top of the podium in her talisman test, the 100-meter breaststroke, where she was already proclaimed champion in London 2012 and Rio 2016. For these merits, she had been appointed standard-bearer of the national delegation in Tokyo.
At dawn in Spain, Michelle prevailed with authority in the elimination series and sealed her passport to the final with the best time of the participants (1: 13.25) in the SB14 modality, for athletes with intellectual disabilities.
This Sunday first thing in the morning (at night in Japan), Alonso has written another brilliant page of his Paralympic history at the Tokyo Water Sports Center, the same setting where the great idols of world swimming wore a few weeks ago. She is too. His career was impressive and he was on the podium again. Michelle is already a legend of the Spanish Paralympic sport.
Alonso finished excited after clearly passing all her opponents with a stratospheric time of 1: 12.02, almost three seconds better than Britain’s Fiddes. This record marks a new world record.
The Canary Islands had started her participation in these Games with a very commendable qualification for the final of the 200 meters breaststroke, a distance in which she achieved an unexpected but very valuable eighth place in the final. This is how he was awarded his first diploma at this Japanese event. But the objective in which he had placed all his illusions was the race of 100. This was demonstrated this Sunday, while his friends and neighbors from La Laguna enjoyed his exhibition on a giant screen displayed by the City Council.
His coach, José Luis Guadalupe, had already warned of the ostensible improvement shown by his main rivals and of the added difficulty that these Games posed due to the stoppage forced by the pandemic. Michelle knew how to overcome all adversities and triumphed again. He did it in a big way, on a memorable day, lowering his own world record and leaving his name engraved in the history of these Games.
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