Uruguay National Thread

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Open waters swimmers Maximiliano Paccot and Felipe López will enter the Olympic qualifier in Portugal.

 

Julio César Maglione was named FINA Honorary Life President.

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In athletics, two national records were crushed.

 

Déborah Rodríguez won the 800 m run at the Geneva round of the World Continental Athletic Tour with 2'00.20.

 

Santiago Catrofe won the 1500 m run at Nice with 3'35.82.

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Nicole Frank and Enzo Martínez are the two swimmers qualified to the Tokio Olympics, both on universality quota.

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María Pía Fernández did 4'11.44 at the 1500 m run at the Madrid meet of the World Continental Tour, and climnbed to first on the South America rankings.

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Rowers Cetraro/Klüver will be the first Uruguayans to compete at Tokio.

 

Full calendar:

 

https://twitter.com/faltaunoradio/status/1417557818941521931

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Cetraro/Klüver did 6'42.85 at their heat, about 20 seconds off the top 2. In a few hours they will compete at the repechage.

 

Lola Moreira will also compete tonight.

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In rowing, Cetraro/Klüver did 6'36.87 at the repechage, finishing 3rd by 0.08 seconds, so they are into the top 12!

 

In swimming, Nicole Frank did 2'18.93 at the 200 m individual medley, or 0.7 seconds above her best time.

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In rowing, Cetraro/Klüver did 6'11.48 at the semifinals and finished 2nd!

 

At the final, they were last with 6'24.21.

 

In athletics, Déborah Rodríguez did 2'00.90, just 0.7 seconds off her record, and advanced to the semifinals

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In judo, Mikael Aprahamian lost in round of 32 to Robin Pacek in golden time.

 

In sailing, Lola Moreira finished 22nd, with a best result of 10th at the 9th regatta.

 

Defazzio/Knüppel have also had poor results so far.

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In swimming, Enzo Martínez did 22.52 at the 50 m freestyle, just 0.08 seconds off his national record.