Carla Casals Solé[a][1] (born 6 February 1987) is a Paralympic swimmer from Spain.[2]
Personal
Casals is from the Catalan region of Spain.[3][4] Living at the High Performance Centre (CAR) of San Cugat del Vallés in 2013, she shared a room with an Olympic athlete.[5][6]
Swimming
Casals is an S12 classified swimmer.[3][4] She is affiliated with the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind (FEDC).[7]
In 2007, Casals competed at the IDM German Open.[8] Casals won a gold medal at the 2009 IPC European Swimming Championships.[9] She was one of 42 Spanish team members, of which 22 had physical disabilities, 6 had cerebral palsy, 10 were blind and four had intellectual disabilities.[10] Casals competed at the 2010 Adapted Swimming World Championship in the Netherlands, where she won a gold medal.[11][12] She finished seventh in the 100 meter backstroke.[13]
In 2011, Casals trained with Deborah Font Jimenez.[14] She competed at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany, finishing fifth in the 200 meter freestyle and fourth in the 100 meter breaststroke.[14][15] In 2012, Casals competed at the Paralympic Swimming Championship of Spain by Autonomous Communities. She finished first in the 100 meter butterfly event and second in the SB23 100 meter breaststroke event.[3][16] She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, where she finished eighth in the 200 meter individual medley, fourth in the 100 meter butterfly, and sixth in the 100 meter breastroke.[7][17] Prior to heading to London, she participated in a national vision impaired swim team training camp at the High Performance Centre of Sant Cugat from 6 to 23 August. Daily at the camp, there were two in water training sessions and one out of water training session.[18] Casals competed at the 2013 Swimming Championship of Catalonia, hosted by the Sabadell Swimming Club, where she was one of nine Spanish swimmers to set a qualifying time for the World Championships.[19] She competed at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships.[4][20][21][22][23] From the Catalan region of Spain, she was a recipient a 2012 Plan ADO scholarship.[24]
Notes
^In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Casals and the second or maternal family name is Solé.
^"Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaften im Schwimmen" (in German). Berlin, Germany: Paralympischer Sport Club Berlin. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
