The Royal Spanish Swimming Federation has released a finalized Olympic roster. Spain\u00a0will send 23 swimmers to the 2016 Games. In March, 11 athletes qualified at the 2016 Spanish Spring Championships. That list has since grown by 12.<\/p>\n
The men will have 13 swimmers racing:\u00a0M\u00e1rkel Alberdi, Antonio Arroyo, Miguel Dur\u00e1n, Hugo Gonz\u00e1lez, Aitor Mart\u00ednez, V\u00edctor M. Mart\u00edn, Bruno Ortiz-Ca\u00f1avate, Miguel Ortiz-Ca\u00f1avate, Carlos Peralta, Albert Puig, Joan LLu\u00ecs Pons, Marc S\u00e1nchez <\/strong>and Eduardo Solaeche.<\/strong><\/p>\n In March, none of the men notched qualification times in more than one event. In this release, Bruno and Miguel\u00a0<\/strong>Ortiz-Ca\u00f1avate, Alberdi, Martinez, Puig, Sanchez, and Martin are all only listed for relays.<\/p>\n Two time Olympic silver medalist Mireia Belmonte<\/strong>\u00a0leads the women, with qualification times in the 400 and 800 freestyles, 200 butterfly, and 200 and 400 IM.<\/p>\n She is joined by nine others:\u00a0Patricia Castro, Melani Costa, Duane Da Rocha, Fatima Gallardo, Marta Gonz\u00e1lez, Judith Ignacio, Jessica Vall, Mar\u00eda Vilas<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00c1frica Zamorano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Zamorano qualified for three events in March: the 200 backstroke, and 200 and 400 IM. Da Rocha was the 2014 European Champion in the 200 backstroke. Vall took 200 breaststroke bronze at last summer’s World Championships and is the Spanish record holder in the event.<\/p>\n Gonzalez, Gallardo, and Castro are listed as relay only swimmers in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Royal Spanish Swimming Federation has released a finalized Olympic roster. Spain\u00a0will send 23 swimmers to the 2016 Games. In March, 11 athletes qualified at the 2016 Spanish Spring Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":111678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n