translated from Spanish: Swimmer Cecilia Biagioli qualified for the Tokyo Olympics

The Cordoban swimmer Cecilia Biagioli achieved a place for the Tokyo Olympic Games in open water, after finishing seventh in the Pre-Olympics of Setúbal, in Portugal and will return to compete in this competition after not being present in Rio 2016.In the qualifying event, in which the Argentine Romina Imwinkelried also competed (Argentina can only have one representative in the Games), the experienced Cordoban set a time of 2h02m52s, less than a minute behind the winner, the Hungarian Anna Olasz. It was five laps of 2,000 meters in a race in which Biagioli came third and eventually placed seventh.

#Natacion Cecilia Biagioli finished in seventh place at the Open Water Pre-Olympics in Setubal, Portugal, and qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. Luis Filipe Nunes pic.twitter.com/s20zRqYp5u — Deportes Argentina (@DeportesAR)
June 19, 2021

In this way, Biagioli qualified for his fifth Olympic Games, after participating in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012, in swimming pool and in open water. The peculiarity is that Cecilia’s sister, Romina Biagioli, obtained a few days ago the qualification for Tokyo in the triathlon after finishing in 20th place of the World Cup in Huatulco, in Mexico. For Romina it will be the first Games of her career.
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