Antoni Ponce Bertran

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Antoni Ponce
Personal information
Full nameAntoni Ponce Bertran
NationalityFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Born (1987-06-05) 5 June 1987 (age 37)
Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona, Spain
Sport
Sport Paralympic swimming
Disability class S5, SB5
ClubCN Sitges
Coached byJaume Marce Gil
Medal record
Men's para swimming
Representing Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Paralympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 200 m freestyle S5
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 100 m breaststroke S5
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Paris 100 m breaststroke SB5
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Madeira 200 m medley SM5
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Madeira 100 m breaststroke SB5
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Manchester 100 m breaststroke SB5
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Madeira 50 m backstroke S5
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Madeira 100 m freestyle S5
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Madeira 200 m freestyle S5
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2023 Manchester 200 m freestyle S5
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2023 Manchester 200 m medley SM5
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Madeira 4x50m mixed medley relay 20pts

Antoni Ponce Bertran [lower-alpha 1] (born 5 June 1987) is a Spanish Paralympic swimmer. He represented Spain at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1]

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Career

Ponce Bertran represented Spain in the men's 200 metre freestyle S5 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal. [2] He currently holds both the Paralympic record and the World record in 100m breastsroke in the category SB5.

Notes

  1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ponceand the second or maternal family name is Bertran.

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References

  1. "Antoni Ponce Bertran". paralympic.org. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  2. "PONCE BERTRAN Antoni". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.