Anastasiya Dmytriv takes to the water at 16 and gives Spain its first gold medal at the Games

Spain You already know what it means to win gold in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. He did it thanks to the swimmer. Anastasiya DmytrivAt 16, the Spaniard of Ukrainian origin put on an exhibition on the La Défense waters, pulverizing all her rivals and stopping the clock with almost a second and a half ahead of the Briton. Brock Whiston in the SB8 100 breaststroke test.

Anastasiya gave an impeccable performance. She left her mark in the series, destroying the rest of the swimmers and did not fail at the key moment. Cheered by the Parisian public, she strokes until exhaustion and makes her debut in a Paralympic event in an impeccable manner. He left his mark, the first of a career that is intended to be made of carats. In Paris, he will still have the opportunity to win three more medals.

The gold against the respectable Frenchman was nothing more than confirmation of an overwhelming superiority. He also has three gold medals in World Championships and one in Europeansin addition to one silver and two bronzes distributed in the two tournaments.

The first of athletics

Another of the great hopes of Spanish sport in these Paralympic Games, athletics, won its first medal. It did so with a bronze medal for Alba García Falagán in the long jump. For the Madrid native, who suffered from the rain, her 4.76 in the first attempt was enough to secure third place on the podium.

The equality was maximum, so much so that she was one centimeter away from losing the medals to the detriment of Italian Dedaj. A medal obtained “with a lot of stress”, as Alba herself confirmed after finishing the event.

“I could have done better but given the conditions, the noise, having to stop constantly or the weather, I can’t ask for better,” he added. Now the 22-year-old Spaniard must compete in the 100 meters to try to bring new joy to Paris.

Spain’s third medal came at noon and a few hours later, this time at the Velodrome, it was Alphonse Cabello who did the same and hung the bronze medal around his neck in the 1,000-meter track time trial.

The Andalusian dreamed of tasting gold again in this event and in qualifying he set the third best time, stopping the clock at 1:02.050, less than a second behind the leader Korey Boddington. There was a chance of a medal and that is what it ended up being. In the final, Cabello set an extraordinary time of 1:01.969, reducing his previous time by a few thousandths and far surpassing the Briton. Jody Cundyfourth ranked.

And the day, bathed in gold for the Spanish delegation, ended with a pleasant surprise from the Stade de France. The one that Joan Munar materialized in bronze in the long jump. In an agonizing way. He was third until halfway through the race when the Chinese Tao Ye overtook him. The jumps followed one after the other without the Spaniard managing to regain the bronze. Until the last and final jump, Munar reached 6.32 meters and snuck onto the last step of a podium led by two Chinese athletes.