Argentina is the headquarters of the swimming world championship for deaf people

Argentina is the headquarters of the swimming world championship for deaf people

It will be in Parque Roca, from August 14 to 19. This is the sixth edition of a contest of this type and will have a record number of participants.

He Swimming World Cup for deaf people which will be held at the Roca Park facilities in Buenos Aires from August 14 to 19, already has 31 confirmed countries. “We are working with great enthusiasm to make an unforgettable World Cup. Hosting and receiving athletes from all over the world is no longer a dream, it is a reality,” he said. Juan Daniel Lopez Macciothe president of the Argentine Confederation of Sports for the Deaf (CADES).

“It will be a World Cup with a record number of participants and an excellent opportunity for Argentines to appreciate an event that will be a true sporting spectacle. That is our commitment to society”, added Horace Alevapresident of the Organizing Committee of the Swimming World Cup for deaf people, who also highlighted the support of the National Sports Secretariat and the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

The one in Buenos Aires will be the 6th World Cup for deaf people. The previous ones were held in Brueggen (Germany) in 1995, Taipei (Taiwan) in 2007, Coimbra (Portugal) in 2011, San Antonio (United States) in 2015 and San Pablo (Brazil) in 2019.

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Argentina, which did not participate in the Brazil World Cup, He has not yet confirmed his team for the competition. The coach Marcela Belviso continues working with a preselection of which they are part Emanuel Llanos, Diana Valentini, Sebastián Galleguillo, Julián Vincitorio Doce, Manuel Funes Bicerne, Nicolás Yáñez, Ingrid Romero and Delfina Villarreal.

So far, the following countries have confirmed their participation, in addition to Argentina: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Macedonia, France, Germany, Ghana, the United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Mauritius, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, the United States, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica and Uruguay.


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