{"id":484183,"date":"2021-07-31T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=484183"},"modified":"2021-07-31T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:20:56","slug":"mestre-brothers-carry-on-family-legacy-for-venezuela-in-solid-first-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/mestre-brothers-carry-on-family-legacy-for-venezuela-in-solid-first-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mestre Brothers Carry on Family Legacy For Venezuela In Solid First Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mestre Brothers Carry on Family Legacy For Venezuela In Solid First Olympics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alberto Mestre<\/strong> didn\u2019t pay much attention to his phone in the last week in June, knowing he didn\u2019t need any extra pressure. It was expectation enough that swimming in the Olympics is pretty much the family business, and the Venezuelan sprinter badly wanted to etch his name into that ledger by getting to the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>So when his brother, <strong>Alfonso Mestre<\/strong>, told him on Wednesday night that he\u2019d attained his A cut in the 800 freestyle at a meet in Puerto Rico, Alberto was happy for his younger brother. But he was also concerned to find that his level of desire to be part of the Games could still somehow increase.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, at the Bahamian Championships and just before that weekend\u2019s final cutoff to post qualifying or consideration times for the Olympics, Alberto channeled that pressure into a massive swim. And together, the brothers have continued to make history, for themselves and their family, in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just went for it,\u201d Alberto said of his qualification swim, which came in a time trial. \u201cI hadn\u2019t talked to my brother from the time he had done it or to my family, because I really like to be focused. After I did it, they were the first people I called, and the emotions were just sky high.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NATACION?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NATACION<\/a>??\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \u00a1LOS MESTRE LISTOS PARA TOKIO! Alberto Mestre Jr. Hijo mayor del ol\u00edmpico Alberto Mestre, logra marca A en los 50m libres a los JJOO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tokyo2020<\/a> en el BAHAMAS AQUATICS MEET 2021, Mestre paro el cron\u00f3metro con 21.93<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f La marca m\u00ednima para <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> es de 22.01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LHFHPhZqyd\">pic.twitter.com\/LHFHPhZqyd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Instituto Nacional de Deportes (@INDeporteVE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INDeporteVE\/status\/1408785501818077190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alberto, rising to the pressure again, added the honor of an Olympic semifinal swim, taking home 15th place in the men\u2019s 50 free. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-caeleb-dressel-scares-olympic-record-as-50-free-top-seed\/\">top time was from prelims<\/a> at 21.96, just shy of the national record 21.93 he set to get here. He went 49.44 in his less favored the event, the 100 free, to finish 33rd.<\/p>\n<p>While Alfonso didn\u2019t earn a second swim in either, he had solid showings in both the 400 free (16th in 3:47.14) and 800 free (15th in 7:52.07). The former time established a Venezuelan record, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/12-national-records-fall-in-first-two-days-of-cccan-championships-in-puerto-rico\/\">his qualifying swim from the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Championships (CCCAN)<\/a> stands as the 800 free record, achieved off the front of a 1,500 race.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only further proof of what exemplary stewards of the Mestre family name they are, the next generation of Venezuela\u2019s foremost swimming family.<\/p>\n<p>The Mestre\u2019s father, <strong>Alberto Mestre Sr.<\/strong>, is a legend. He qualified for the 1980 Olympics (at just 15 years old) and the 1984 Games. In Los Angeles, Alberto Sr. finished fifth in the 100 free and sixth in the 200 free. He has five Pan Am Games medals, including individual silver and bronze, to his name from the 1983 event. Alberto Sr. won three NCAA relay titles with the University of Florida, two team national championships and was a 17-time All-American.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso has followed his father\u2019s footsteps to Gainesvillt. Alberto made his way to Stanford. But both are at the Olympics, something their father has long groomed them for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the best feeling one could ever ask for,\u201d Alfonso said. \u201cMy dream since I was born was to go to the Olympics like my dad did. Coming to Tokyo is fulfilling that dream. The next step of working toward that dream is to get into an Olympic final or win a medal for Venezuela. That\u2019s my goal for Paris, and I did a pretty good job here in Tokyo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mestre brothers were born in Venezuela but grew up in Puerto Rico, where they won a slew of national championships. Like their father, they finished their schooling in the United States at the Hill School in Pennsylvania, Alberto graduating in 2017 and Alfonso two years later.<\/p>\n<p>Where they\u2019ve diverged is in their specialties. Alberto Sr. was the consummate mid-distance freestyler. Alberto Jr. is an out-and-out sprinter, as evidenced by his 50 free finish, with his 6-foot-8 frame. Alfonso somehow got the distance gene. Neither of the brothers is quite sure how.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked it,\u201d Alfonso said of the distance workload. \u201cI like training hard. I like going to practice every day and almost not being able to walk after practice. That\u2019s what I like about swimming, and I just stuck with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Mestre brothers carry a lot of pressure. It\u2019s borne by their name, and by the lack of elite swimmers from Venezuela since their father\u2019s career ended. The nation has only had 18 Olympic medalists all-time, all in the Summer Games. Only one swimmer, <strong>Rafael Vidal<\/strong> with bronze in the men\u2019s 200 butterfly at the 1984 Games, has ever medaled from Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers are able to help each other carry the burden. They have their father as a resource to diffuse it. But they also have high hopes themselves, and Tokyo was a very significant step on the pathway toward achieving it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows the pressure that it is to represent Venezuela at the Olympics, because everyone expects you to get top eight, top 16,\u201d Alfonso said, referring to his father. \u201cSo it\u2019s a lot of pressure. And he\u2019s helped us to handle that pressure the right way and to use that pressure not in a bad way but in a positive way, to use it as motivation to swim faster, focus better and give everything for Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mestre Brothers Carry on Family Legacy For Venezuela In Solid First Olympics Alberto Mestre didn\u2019t pay much attention to his phone in the last week in June, knowing he didn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8367,"featured_media":473066,"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":[3,122077],"tags":[34385,57050,129091,62404,32,41788,327,800],"class_list":["post-484183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","tag-2020-tokyo-olympic-games","tag-alberto-mestre","tag-alberto-mestre-sr","tag-alfonso-mestre","tag-florida","tag-rafael-vidal","tag-stanford","tag-venezuela"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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