The swimmer Macarena Ceballos completed a remarkable performance on Monday in the 100-meter breaststroke that allowed her to qualify for the semifinal of the Fukuoka Swimming World Cup, break the South American record for the specialty and, incidentally, get an A mark that enables her to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Ceballos, a native of Río Cuarto, shone in the Japanese pool with a record of 1m06s69 in one of the six qualifying series, a mark that gave her the ticket to the semifinals. In that instance, with an almost exact time (1m06s75), she repeated the twelfth place, with which she finished the test.
But the most important thing for the 28-year-old competitor is that the record dropped to 1m06s79, the time limit proposed by the Swimming Federation as an A mark for the Olympic Games. This achievement means that Ceballos already has a guaranteed presence in Paris 2024. In addition, she pulverized the time that Julia Sebastián, also from Argentina, had set at the Pan American Games in Lima 2019, when she clocked 1m06s98 and kept the Argentine and South American record for the specialty.
Ceballos will have another two participations in the Fukuoka World Cup, since he still has to compete in the 50 meter and 200 meter breaststroke.