Another barrier demolished in the Singapore World Cup. Carlos Gimeno has hung on Sunday the silver medal in the 'High During' to tear down another roof for Spanish sport, to have a medalist in a relatively new modality, with a decade of validity in great championships, in which the podium had never been reached.
Until now. If something is demonstrating the Singapore World Cup is that there are no barriers that cannot be overcome. The Spanish sport is going to go with two medals in water polo, with nine in artistic, to a sigh of the drawer in the open waters and, also, with a medal in 'High During'. Gimeno's is
Carlos Gimeno has made the national aquatic sport already have podiums in all the modalities that make the world championships. His name joins that of Spanish pioneers in universal appointments and elevates the World Cup medals in aquatic sports to 103.
The pioneer in swimming was Martín López Zubero with his gold in 200 back and his bronze in 100 back in 1991. It was in the same championship in which the summation opened in water polo, with the silver of the boys that launched the golden era. The account in open waters, meanwhile, was opened in 1998, with a silver medal by David Mecca in the 25 kilometers.
There was still more. The silver in free combined and the bronzes of Gemma megual in alone and of Mengual and Paola thrown in duo opened the accountant of the 'syncro' in Barcelona 2003. There were already four modalities with Spain on the podium.
The fifth, for the closure of the traditional ones, had to wait until last year. Adrián Abadía and Nicolás García Boissier's bronze in those synchronized in a three -meter trampoline of Doha knocked another barrier and made them pioneers. Just as Carlos Gimeno now becomes a pioneer with the jumps of great height, initiated in Kazan 2015. The Canarian has completed the puzzle of world medalists of Spanish aquatic sport.
