The Spaniard Xavi Torres has joined its 16th medal in the Paralympics, the second in the current Beijing Olympics, after the bronze won by the Spanish team in the playoffs of 4×50 styles during the morning session today.
The Spaniard helped swimmer qualifying for the Spanish team for the final and thus became worthy of the bronze medal she won the final quartet, only behind China and Brazil.
Xavi Torres makes history by the Spanish Paralympic Teresa Perales Aragon also won his sixteenth medal. They have matched the athlete Puri Santamarta Burgos.
In Beijing, the swimmer Xavi Torres participates in their fifth game, where it has climbed the podium twice, with yesterday’s silver and bronze 150 styles modern styles 4×50.
Torres said having spent “many nerves in the final to be out of the test and could not do anything to help my team.”
Xavi Torres has shared lunch with the Minister of Sports and Youth, Mateu Cañellas, and the director general of Sport, Gabriel Gili, who have traveled to Beijing to support the athletes competing in the Balearic Islands and especially Games swimmers who train at the Center for Modernization of Palma.
At 34 years and with twenty sports career, Torres completed his last play a track record with 16 Paralympic medals, various world and European titles, 103 national titles and more than 350 caps