Marco Meneses breaks the 50m backstroke world record

The Portuguese Paralympic swimmer Marco Meneses broke, this Friday, the world record of 50 meters backstroke for S11 athletes, swimming the distance in 31.47 seconds in the World Series of Great Britain.

In Sheffield, the Paralympic managed to beat all the swimmers in the race and beat the 31.58 seconds that the Czech David Kratochvil had set five days ago, in Italy.

“I’m very happy with this world record, it was a bit unexpected. It was a hard record to beat”, declared the Portuguese, quoted by the Portuguese Swimming Federation.

The athlete from Crasto, affiliated in the category for people who are blind or with serious vision problems, beat the rest of the swimmers on points in the World Series, ahead of the Brazilian Araújo dos Santos, S2, second, and the Japanese Kubota Kota, S8, third.