The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Augusto Santos Silva, and the Prime Minister, António Costa, congratulated the young swimmer Diogo Ribeiro, who won three gold medals at the World Swimming Championships. among juniors in Lima, Peru.
According to a note published on the official website of the presidency of the republic on the internet, the head of state congratulates “the swimmer Diogo Ribeiro”, for winning the junior world title in the 50 meters of Mariposa, setting a world record, also in terms of the two medals on the other side in the 50-meter freestyle and 100-meter butterfly.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic, for his part, emphasized as a “reason of pride” all the “international successes of Portuguese sport”.
“Congratulations to Diogo Ribeiro, triple world junior swimming champion. The international successes of Portuguese sport are a source of pride for all of us,” Santos Silva wrote on the social network Twitter.
Also on Twitter, Prime Minister António Costa Diogo considered Ribeiro “a pride for the national sport”.
“Congratulations Diogo Ribeiro! Three gold medals and a world record in the Juniors of Swimming, which take place in Lima. A pride for the national sport,” wrote the head of government.
Congratulations Diogo Ribeiro! Three gold medals and a world record in the Swimming Juniors, which take place in Lima. A pride for the national sport.
— António Costa (@antoniocostapm) September 4, 2022
Diogo Ribeiro won the world junior swimming title in the 50m mariposa on Saturday, in Lima, Peru, with a world record in the category, adding this achievement to the gold medals in the 50m freestyle and 100m mariposa.
The 17-year-old Benfica swimmer won the competition in 22.96 seconds, breaking the world record for juniors, held by Russian Andrei Minakov (23.05) since October 2020, by nine hundredths. belonged to him.
Diogo Ribeiro won the final comfortably, leaving Czech Daniel Gracik in second place by half a second (23.46) and Dane Casper Puggaard in third place by one second (23.96), after reaching the semi-finals of the 100m freestyle, for which he had qualified with the best time in the heats, ahead of the absolute world record holder, Romanian David Popovici.
After winning his third world title, Diogo Ribeiro was visibly moved to thank those who supported him, namely in the Peruvian swimming pool.
“It was very difficult, a very exciting year,” said the Portuguese swimmer, promising “to get used to this rhythm of victories”.
Source: DN
