Brazil swimmer Diamante heads for worlds after S. American Games
Among the ten Brazilian swimmers who are competing in the World Swimming Championships (25 m), starting this Monday (Dec. 12), Giovanna Diamante is the one with the strongest start. She arrived in Melbourne, Australia, carrying the ten medals she won in ten events at the South American Games in Asunción, Paraguay, in October—eight gold, two silver.
“I think I only realized I could win [a medal] in all the events halfway through the competition. I was very surprised with the result, I wasn’t expecting it. I swam very well for the training I’d been having,” Diamante told Agência Brasil.
Of the ten races Diamante participated in Asunción, five were individual, with silver in the 100 and 200m freestyle and gold in the 50, 100, and 200m butterfly, styles in which she is a specialist.
In Melbourne, she will fight for medals in the 200m freestyle and in the three butterfly competitions, with emphasis on the 100m, in which she was bronze in the Toronto stage of the Swimming World Cup, three weeks after the South American Games. In the same event, Diamante came close to the podium in the 200m, ranking fourth.
