Within the framework of the presentation of the institutional project “Malena 2024” in charge of the Sport Automobile Club’s swimming subcommittee, details were provided on the present and future of the outstanding San Francisco athlete, Malena Santillan, who aspires to earn a . The next Olympic event will take place which will be on French territory.
“It would be a dream to qualify to go to Paris. I am going to work hard to get into the Olympic Games,” said the 14-year-old.
Meanwhile, the first to speak was the president of the sport, Mariella Moreno di Paolaso, who said: “The truth is, at this point in time, the discipline of a teenager in sports is something admirable. I am as a mother, as a grandmother. What I know is that she wakes up so early every morning for training, it makes me feel so good because I see boys these days prefer life with little sacrifice.”
For his part, Malena Santillan’s coach, Anibal Gaviglio, said: “We have called you together to launch this ambitious project, which we have from the Sport Automobile Club’s swimming subcommittee, which we simply call ‘Malena 2024’. Says, because separating these twenty-one months from the next Olympic Games since the final destination is the ultimate goal of the project”.
“We knew Malena’s talent from a very young age and we started betting on her performance, then we realized that she has already made a difference for about three or four years. Not long after she has faced the pandemic. The reason she spent without competing, she didn’t stop, she kept growing and then she was setting national records in the combined distance of 400m and 200m.”
Then, he clarified: “There are two types of competitions according to the size of the pool, the 25 m and the 50 m, the 50 m pool is taken into account for the purposes of the Olympics, while the 25 m pool still has its World Championships. “
“When we resumed competition after the pandemic, we saw that Malena had already secured qualifying points for the South American Championship, with some tournaments ending in late October and early November. year. There he has had a great ‘explosion’ as it is already beginning to be a record in the 800 free meters. In Lima, Peru, he loses first place by seven hundredth, which is something that needs to be done with two touches. cannot be considered together when they come,” he explained. In this sense, he explained: “From there, Malena is taken into account for a lot of competitions and calls. Up to the point that in the past ten months she has traveled about 40,000 kilometers in trips between the South American World Cup.” And going to top-level tournaments like Spain and Portugal. And now we’ve been called to the Odesaur games that are going to happen now, starting 30 September in Asuncion (Paraguay) and she’s already an Argentine senior. is in the team”.
“How will his quality be, that as a result of his performance I was selected as the first technical director,” he said. Meanwhile, he insisted: “In Spain, on that tour, he broke four or five records, but he broke a very important record, which was Delfina Pignatiello’s in the 400 m freestyle, currently her best performance, Because she beat Delfina in 3 seconds. So, from there it was taken into account at the national level.”
“I see that the story of what happened to him with Andres Gonzalez has been slightly repeated, that we had the opportunity to participate with Andres Gonzalez at the 2008 World Cup, which was held in Rio de Janeiro,” He remembered.
“With Malena I think we are facing a different athlete, because of her height, which is 1.80m, her arm span, which is 1.87m, because there are very few girls in the 2008 category in the world. I have these numbers,” he insisted.
“Malea constantly has to face new challenges, otherwise it may lead to stagnation. In addition, I want to emphasize that today, they have the main sponsor of the State of Argentina, the Secretary of Sport through Enard ( National unit of high performance sports)”, he explained.
After Cardboard, he emphasized: “With the entire team of colleagues behind Malena, and missing a psychologist living in Buenos Aires today, we have to act in a coordinated manner because she is going to get a lot of pressure, so we have Now it’s time to look after her mental health. There are going to be very demanding moments to make a mark for the Olympic Games”.
“We are 2 seconds and 90 hundredths away from awarding Brand B, but only ten places in the world of Brand B in return. To prepare, we’re going to alternate San Francisco with a few weeks in San Francisco. Buenos Aires. For this reason, facing Paris 2024, we have a great challenge to excel at the Pan American Games to be held in Santiago de Chile,” he said.
“Also, at the end of the year, there is a possibility to go to the Short Course World Cup in Australia. But we still have to qualify. And now, very soon, we are going to Odessur, where Argentina will take 592 athletes from Paraguay. So, in Asuncion, within 15 days, there will be about 5,000 athletes from all over South America. This is really a very important event,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, the 14-year-old swimmer, who wakes up at 4:30 a.m. to train four times a week and then goes to school, said: “The truth is now I’m focusing on the Odessur sports, but obviously It would be a dream to be eligible to go to Paris. I am going to work hard to be able to attend the Olympic Games and I am very grateful to the team that I have worked with because they support me all the time “. Afterwards, he added: “The trials I’m going to classify are the 200-meter backstroke and the 400-meter freestyle.”
Regarding the pressure to get better day by day, Malena finally said: “I really enjoy coming to the club to swim, it’s something I love because I have a great time because Swimming is the sport I love.”
Within the framework of the presentation of the institutional project “Malena 2024” in charge of the Sport Automobile Club’s swimming subcommittee, details were provided on the present and future of the outstanding San Francisco athlete, Malena Santillan, who aspires to earn a . The next Olympic event will take place which will be on French territory.
“It would be a dream to qualify to go to Paris. I am going to work hard to get into the Olympic Games,” said the 14-year-old.
Meanwhile, the first to speak was the president of the sport, Mariella Moreno di Paolaso, who said: “The truth is, at this point in time, the discipline of a teenager in sports is something admirable. I am as a mother, as a grandmother. What I know is that she wakes up so early every morning for training, it makes me feel so good because I see boys these days prefer life with little sacrifice.”
For his part, Malena Santillan’s coach, Aníbal Gaviglio, said: “We have called them to launch this ambitious project, which we have from the Sport Automobile Club swimming subcommittee, which we simply call ‘Malena 2024’, Because the final destination is different. This is the final goal of the project twenty one months from the next Olympic Games”.
“We knew Malena’s talent from a very young age and we started betting on her performance, then we realized that she has already made a difference for about three or four years. Not long after she has faced the pandemic. The reason she spent without competing, she didn’t stop, she kept growing and then she was setting national records in the combined distance of 400m and 200m.”
Then, he clarified: “There are two types of competitions according to the size of the pool, the 25 m and the 50 m, the 50 m pool is taken into account for the purposes of the Olympics, while the 25 m pool still has its World Championships. “
“When we resumed competition after the pandemic, we saw that Malena had already secured qualifying points for the South American Championship, with some tournaments ending in late October and early November. year. There he has had a great ‘explosion’ as it is already beginning to be a record in the 800 free meters. In Lima, Peru, he loses first place by seven hundredth, which is something that needs to be done with two touches. cannot be considered together when they come,” he explained. In this sense, he explained: “From there, Malena is taken into account for a lot of competitions and calls. Up to the point that in the past ten months she has traveled about 40,000 kilometers in trips between the South American World Cup.” And going to top-level tournaments like Spain and Portugal. And now we’ve been called to the Odesaur games that are going to happen now, starting 30 September in Asuncion (Paraguay) and she’s already an Argentine senior. is in the team”.
“How will his quality be, that as a result of his performance I was selected as the first technical director,” he said. Meanwhile, he insisted: “In Spain, on that tour, he broke four or five records, but he broke a very important record, which was Delfina Pignatiello’s in the 400 m freestyle, currently her best performance, Because she beat Delfina in 3 seconds. So, from there it was taken into account at the national level.”
“I see that the story of what happened to him with Andres Gonzalez has been slightly repeated, that we had the opportunity to participate with Andres Gonzalez at the 2008 World Cup, which was held in Rio de Janeiro,” He remembered.
“With Malena I think we are facing a different athlete, because of her height, which is 1.80m, her arm span, which is 1.87m, because there are very few girls in the 2008 category in the world. I have these numbers,” he insisted.
“Malea constantly has to face new challenges, otherwise it may lead to stagnation. In addition, I want to emphasize that today, they have the main sponsor of the State of Argentina, the Secretary of Sport through Enard ( National unit of high performance sports)”, he explained.
After Cardboard, he emphasized: “With the entire team of colleagues behind Malena, and missing a psychologist living in Buenos Aires today, we have to act in a coordinated manner because she is going to get a lot of pressure, so we have Now it’s time to look after her mental health. There are going to be very demanding moments to make a mark for the Olympic Games”.
“We are 2 seconds and 90 hundredths away from awarding Brand B, but only ten places in the world of Brand B in return. To prepare, we’re going to alternate San Francisco with a few weeks in San Francisco. Buenos Aires. For this reason, facing Paris 2024, we have a great challenge to excel at the Pan American Games to be held in Santiago de Chile,” he said.
“Also, at the end of the year, there is a possibility to go to the Short Course World Cup in Australia. But we still have to qualify. And now, very soon, we are going to Odessur, where Argentina will take 592 athletes from Paraguay. So, in Asuncion, within 15 days, there will be about 5,000 athletes from all over South America. This is really a very important event,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, the 14-year-old swimmer, who wakes up at 4:30 a.m. to train four times a week and then goes to school, said: “The truth is now I’m focusing on the Odessur sports, but obviously It would be a dream to be eligible to go to Paris. I am going to work hard to be able to attend the Olympic Games and I am very grateful to the team that I have worked with because they support me all the time “. Afterwards, he added: “The trials I’m going to classify are the 200-meter backstroke and the 400-meter freestyle.”
Regarding the pressure to get better day by day, Malena finally said: “I really enjoy coming to the club to swim, it’s something I love because I have a great time because Swimming is the sport I love.”
