In the 100 meter freestyle S3, Tiago Silva ccompleted the distance in 2.21.16 minutes, during the Paralympic swimming World Cup competition, which takes place in Cairo, Egypt.
This Friday, Portuguese Tiago Silva improved the national record for the 100 meter freestyle S3, completing the distance in 2.21.16 minutes, during the Paralympic Swimming World Cup competition, which takes place in Cairo, Egypt.
Tiago Silva, who competes in one of the lowest classes of Paralympic swimming, will also participate in the 50 meter breaststroke test of the Cairo World Cup, the last of the nine of the season.
In Paralympic swimming, swimmers with motor disabilities are grouped our various styles according to their functional capabilities, through assessments, namely, of muscular strength, coordination and movement limitations.
O class number is preceded by the letter S (Swimming), with classes S1 to S10 grouping swimmers with physical-motor limitationsclasses between 11 and 13 swimmers with visual impairment and class S14 is exclusive to athletes with intellectual disability.
At the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Portuguese swimming had four representatives — from classes S6, S8, S9 and S11 — having Diogo Cancela achieved a bronze medalthe first podium in the competition since Beijing 2008.
