Yago Vicente Ferreira, from the Vilagarcía Swimming Club, rose as Galician runner-up in the 100-meter butterfly last weekend at the Galician Summer Alevín Swimming Championship, held in Pontevedra. The Vilagarcian pulverized his personal best, which stood at 1: 12.03 and improved it to 1: 08.91.
The club wanted to express its satisfaction at “being able to have a cadet representation in these Galician swimmers as in any other, and even more so if it is possible to get a podium in this category, which is another milestone in the club’s history, since CN Vilagarcía has never before he had managed to raise one of his athletes to such a high position on the podium box ”.
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Yago Vicente, aged 13, participated in another test in addition to the 100-meter butterfly. It was in the 100 meters freestyle, where he was seventh with 1: 02.28.
The Vilagarcian club, founded in 2003, also brought another cadet to this competition. This is Pedro Costa Figueiras, also 13 years old.
Pedro was 14th in 100 freestyle (1: 03.41), eighth in 400 free (4: 52.94) and ninth in 200 free (2: 18.99).
About two hundred swimmers from 26 Galician swimming clubs participated in this championship. Boys are born in 2007 and 2008 and girls between 2009 and 2010.
