Palms for the Peruvians: Alexia Sotomayor and Melany Ullilen got medals in swimming

The Sudamericano Juvenil de Deportes Acuáticas continues to leave pleasant news for Peruvian sports. This Thursday, the swimmers Alexia Sotomayor and Melany Ullilen had outstanding performances and got medals in their respective tests.

Sotomayor, from the Sportsman Support Program (PAD) of the Peruvian Sports Institute (IPD), got his third medal at the event that has been taking place a few days ago at Videna de San Luis.

The athlete finished in second place and took the silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle event, with a time of 26.86. Brazilian Lopes Helena was the winner, while also Brazilian Bezerra Beatriz completed the podium.

Let’s remember that Sotomayor won the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke and also the gold medal in the 200-meter backstroke.

The swimmer Melanie Ullilen also celebrated, who won the bronze medal after her participation in the 200-meter butterfly event.

Alexia Sotomayor, Melany Ullilen, Mía Arévalo, Sophia Ng, Yasmín Silva, Dartnell Barrera, Lía Espinoza, Arianna Cock, Fiorella Vértiz, Joaquín Barraza, André Heeren, Vasco Asparria, Luis Calderón, Diego Blas de la Cruz, Ryu Unten, Carlos Flores , César Quijano, Diego Correa, Cristóbal Buchholtz, Bruno Gallardo and Joaquín Rivera make up the Peruvian group of the youth category A.

Group B of the national representation includes Micaela Bernales, Fernanda León, Alejandra Gonzales, Kiara Caamano, Sophia Ribeiro, Romina Itzkovich, Anna Heider, Nicolle Rivas, Siulei Miyake, Luna Quispe, Lucía Mendoza, Joaquín Devoto, Adrián Ywanaga, Augusto Sosa , Gabriel Quevedo, Marcelo Rojas, Diego Balbi, Dairon Gutiérrez, Fernando Liendo, José Pérez, Piero Rázuri, Bruno Ribeiro and Santiago Pinto.