The winner of 39 medals at the continental level in swimming managed to climb to the top of the podium at the Pan American Games Guadalajara 2011.
The 36-year-old athlete will go to the Japanese capital to participate in her fifth Olympic event, an event that also motivates the captain of the men’s basketball team, Luis Scola.
Without the lights or the media impact that the former NBA player can achieve, the oldest of the Biagioli family has another additional reason to celebrate: her sister Romina will intervene in the Olympics. but in women’s triathlon.
Cecilia got her place for this international event last June, when it was classified seventh in the female branch in the Open Water Pre-Olympic developed in Setbal, Portugal.
Previously, Biagioli took part in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012. But only in the capital of the United Kingdom, the Cordovan dared to swim the 10 kilometers in open water. It was located seventeenth, with a record of 2h. 02m. 22s.
The winner of 39 medals at the continental level in swimming managed to climb to the top of the podium at the Pan American Games Guadalajara 2011. And she won a silver medal, also in open water, in Lima 2019.
At the beginning of 2018, Cecilia starred in another unprecedented event: she became the first woman to win the traditional open water Marathon, Santa Fe-Coronda, after Guillermo Bertola (winner of that competition) was sanctioned last October for ” biological doping “, according to the International Swimming Federation (FINA)
The Cordovan continues training, under the supervision of her brother Claudio, in San Salvador de Jujuy in the final stretch of her preparation for the Olympic Games.
“Jujuy was the first option that we evaluated taking into account the sanitary conditions and that there are few possibilities of training outside the country,” Biagioli told Tlam.
The swimmer will continue in the province jujea until Saturday 24, and then move to Mexico and, from there, to Tokyo, where the test for medals of the modality will take place on Wednesday, August 4.
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