The story Designed BY By itself! A quarter of an hour soon after competing in the semi-finals of the 50 freestyle, Diogo Ribeiro became the junior earth winner of the 100m mariposa registering 52.03 in the 8th Championship which usually takes spot in Lima, Peru, at the Videna Aquatic Centre, turning out to be the to start with Portuguese to get on the podium in the occasion considering that the inaugural edition of Rio de Janeiro-2006, in which Diana Gomes experienced received the finest rating ever, finishing 4th in the 100 breaststroke.
The 17-calendar year-previous Benfica swimmer, who is portion of the Car or truck Lisbon less than the direction of the countrywide team coach Alberto Silva, who is accompanying him to Peru, relegated the Czech Daniel Gracik (52.51) and the Danish Casper to the remaining steps of the podium. Puggard (52.94) and verified for the reason that the working day just before he experienced been the swiftest, the two in the semifinals (52.29) and in the qualifiers (53.22), out of a full of 57 swimmers.
“It was a fantastic level of competition, against terrific opponents, so I am incredibly satisfied to have received. I want to dedicate this victory to my teammates, to the household that is in this article [a mãe e a irmã], my coach and the physiotherapist and the federation, which are very vital to me, ”said the Portuguese winner as he came out of the pool, then raised his arms to celebrate his triumph. A thing he hadn’t done in the h2o, just by saying goodbye to his rivals.
The national document is 51.61, acquired by Diogo two months back in the course of the complete European Championships in Rome, where he was 8th in the 100 mariposa and was the only junior amid the finalists.
This Entire world Cup is expected to be unforgettable for the countrywide swimming workforce and Ribeiro as there is a sturdy possibility that the swimmer who moved from União de Coimbra to Benfica this period will complete on the podium in the four races in which he is been enrolled: 50 and 100 freestyle and 50 and 100 months. Over all simply because in the initially two he appears with the next very best time in the starting off checklist and in the other individuals with the very first.
About 13 minutes soon after yesterday’s fight for the butterfly medals, Diogo experienced for today’s last in the 50 freestyle by recording 22.45 in the very first 50 percent, beaten only by the Croatian Jere Hribar (22.35). In the morning, in qualifying, he experienced completed as the speediest, 22.32, against 81 opponents and adopted by Hribar (22.42) and the Brazilian Matheus Pereira (22.62). The greatest particular, which is also a junior nationwide document, 22.07s, was also obtained in the absolute Euro held in Italy and in Portugal only the senior Miguel Nascimento managed to swim speedier (21.90).
With no time to rest, in addition to the last of the 50 freestyle, this Friday, the fourth working day of the World Cup, Diogo will also have the skills of the 50 mariposa, a levels of competition in which he gained bronze in Rome and which, at the time, turned only Portugal’s 3rd medal at the European Championships.
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