Swimming: “Gold” Michalentzakis in Madeira – Six medals for our country to date

After the silver medal in the 100m freestyle S8, Dimosthenis Michalentzakisit’s time to step up to the highest rung of the European podium. Tonight (Friday, 4/26) final, of 200m. mixed individual, of the European Para-Swimming championship, held in Madeira, the Greek paralympian finished in first place in a time of 2:26.30 and gave our country its sixth medal to date and its first gold. The silver medal was won by the Portuguese Diego Cancela with 2:27.82 and third by the Israeli Mark Malyar with 2:30.30.

Participation in the final, today the 5th day of the games, were also in the 50 backstroke S1, Dimitris Karypidis and Nikos Kontou and finished 4th in 1:28.12 and 5th in 1:40.66, respectively.

In the final of the 200 freestyle S5, Alexandros Lergios also participated, who finished in 8th place in 3:10.88, while Yannis Kostakis in the same event in the S3 category, finished in 5th place, in the morning preliminaries, in 4:19.55 and did not made it to the finals.

Tomorrow (Saturday, 27/4), the last day of the event, Efthymia Goulis (100m breaststroke SB8) enters the “battle”, Alexandros Lergios (100m freestyle S5) and Maria Tsakona (50m butterfly S6) are also competing.