The swimmer Diogo Ribeiro returned this Sunday to improve the national record of the 100 freestyle meters in the final test of the junior and senior national championships in Leiria, a competition marked by obtaining 11 absolute maximums.
The Benfica swimmer is the first Portuguese to exceed the 47-second mark, swimming the first leg of the 4×100 freestyle in 46.65 seconds and breaking the previous record that belonged to him since the first day of the championship in Leiria (47.16). .
“Of course, I was already aiming for these marks. These are my conversion times for the long group. I may not have reached them yet, but I finished these 100 free throws in great shape at 46.65. I couldn’t have asked for better.”, Diogo Ribeiro said.
The Benfica player admitted that he arrived at this competition “still in a very calm training period” and the coaches left him “psychologically a little more free” and what was done in Leiria “was also the result of psychological results”.
The swimmer assures that “I could not have asked for a better start to the season” and that the “focus is always on competitions and training”, guaranteeing that, as far as it depends, if they let him, he will be “psychologically free, an area that is the most important thing for an athlete.
“We must not put too much pressure on the athletes. If we have achieved a good result in free form and if we have done well, I think we have to stay free because we are going to keep up.” good job”, explained the swimmer.
The Benfica quartet – Diogo Ribeiro, Miguel Marques, Diogo Costa and Miguel Nascimento – broke the absolute national record with 3:12.81 minutes. The previous maximum already belonged to Benfica with 3.15.63.
They also stood out in the final round of the Leiria championships for the absolute records of Gabriel Lopes, in the 100-meter backstroke (50.82 seconds), Ana Pinho Rodrigues, in the 50-meter breaststroke (30.21), and Mariana Cunha , in the 100-meter styles (1.01.48 minutes).
Source: TSF
