London 2019: Brazil and Spain announce teams
Paralympic champions and newcomers line up for the World Championships 06 Jul 2019Brazil and Spain will come to London for the World Para Swimming Allianz Championships with some of the most awarded athletes in the competition’s recent history.
A total of 26 Brazilian and 36 Spaniards will be in action at the London Aquatics Centre from 9 to 15 September.
The South American delegation will be led by 14-time Paralympic champion Daniel Dias (S5), the country’s most successful Paralympian.
The team also counts with former world champions Joana Silva (S5) and Roberto Alcalde Rodriguez (S6) alongside newcomers such as Maria Carolina Gomes.
In her first season, she is the leader of the 50m freestyle S12 ranking and broke the 100m backstroke SB12 world record on her competition debut at the Sao Paulo World Series in April– a mark later improved by Germany’s Elena Krawzow.
Rio winners in action
Spain will take to the British capital four Paralympic champions from the Rio 2016 Games, including seven-time gold medallist Teresa Perales (S5).
Michelle Alonso (S14), Oscar Salguero (SB8) and Nuria Marques Soto (S9) are the other Rio winners in the Spanish roster.
The Europeans will also bring the winner of the men’s 2019 World Series, Antoni Ponce Bertran (S5), and will count with the return to competitions of four-time Paralympic champion Enhamed Enhamed (S11) – who last competed in the Worlds in 2010.
Around 600 athletes from 60 nations are set to compete in London, the most important Para swimming competition before the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Brazil team:
Ana Karolina Soares de Oliveira
Beatriz Carneiro
Bruno Becker
Caio Amorim
Carlos Farrenberg
Cecilia Araujo
Daniel Dias
Debora Carneiro
Edenia Garcia
Estephany Rodrigues
Gabriel Cristiano
Guilherme Batista Silva
Italo Pereira
Joana Silva
Laila Garcia
Lucilene da Silva Sousa
Maiara Barreto
Maria Carolina Gomes
Matheus Rheine
Patricia Pereira dos Santos
Phelipe Rodrigues
Roberto Alcalde Rodriguez
Ruiter Silva
Susana Schnarndorf Ribeiro
Talisson Glock
Wendel Belarmino
Spain team:
Alejandro Rojas
Antoni Ponce Bertran
Ariadna Edo
Ariel Schrenck
Borja Sanz
Carlos Martinez
David Levecq
David Sanchez
Enhamed Enhamed
Enrique Alhambra
Eva Coronado
Ines Rodriguez
Inigo Llopis
Isabel Yinghua Hernández
Ivan Fernandez
Ivan Salguero
Jacobo Garrido
Jose Antonio Mari
Jose Ramon Cantero
Judith Rolo
Julia Benito
Luis Huerta
Manuel Martinez
Maria Delgado
Marian Polo
Michelle Alonso
Miguel Luque
Miguel Ángel Martínez Tajuelo
Nahia Zudaire
Nuria Marques Soto
Oscar Salguero
Sarai Gascon
Sebastian Rodriguez
Sergio Martos
Teresa Perales
Vicente Gil