Rionegrina joined Itatí-Corrientes
Daira is a high performance athlete, open water swimmer who competes in the world ultra marathon circuit. In 2019 it achieved the fourth position.
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SOn Saturday afternoon, a new nautical test called Itatí – Corrientes Aquatic Marathon was carried out, which in this edition by the swimmer from Rio Negro, Daira Marín, who arrived at Arazaty beach, successfully completing the crossing organized by swimmer Nicolás Segurado.
It was a swimming trip in order to raise awareness about the care of water and nature.
Daira is a high performance athlete, open water swimmer who competes in the world ultra marathon circuit. In 2019 it achieved the fourth position.
In addition, she is an instructor of aquatic activities, a kundalini yoga teacher and performs tantric numerology. And if that were not enough, he is also an environmentalist.
This year, the swimmer decided that the crossing serves to raise awareness about the care of water, rivers and the environment. By 2050 it is estimated that there will be more plastics than fish in our planet’s waters. The sea, rivers and lakes are the training and competition courts of many athletes who want to preserve them.
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Hurkacz took the Miami tournament
The Polish Hubert Hurkacz won the Miami Masters 1000 tennis yesterday by defeating in the final in straight sets 7-6 (7-4) and 6-4, the Italian Jannick Sinner, who aspired to become the youngest winner of the 19-year-old American tournament.
Hurkacz, number 37 in the ATP world rankings, beat Sinner, number 31 in the ecumenical ranks, in 1 hour and 43 minutes of play.
At 24 years old, Hurkacz has won three ATP tournament titles and is the first Polish tennis player to lift a Masters 1000 trophy.
Neither of the two finalists, who formed a doubles pair in various tournaments this season, were among the top twenty seeded in Miami, where the three giants of men’s tennis: Roger Federer, the Swiss, the first absentee in the last seventeen years. Spanish Rafa Nadal and Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Sinner, meanwhile, was the second-youngest finalist in the 36-year history of the Miami Open after Spaniard Nadal, who was runner-up in 2005 at the age of 18.
The Italian burned out quickly and this year in Melbourne he became the youngest player since Serbian Djokovic to win his first two ATP titles.
Anyway, in yesterday’s game, nerves betrayed the promising Italian against Hurkacz and his relentless service, one of the most feared on the circuit.
Both Hurkacz and Sinner will enter the Top-20 of the ATP rankings, starting tomorrow.
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Lions lost to Germany
Los Leones, the Argentine men’s field hockey team, yesterday added the second defeat of the weekend, falling with their German counterpart, this time 3-0, in a match in the qualifying phase of the Pro League tournament of discipline.
At the National High Performance Center (Cenard) in Núñez, the “albiceleste” team accumulated its second consecutive defeat in local conditions, since last Saturday they had lost 3-2 (two goals from Leandro Tolini).
The goals of the European rival, who is second in the standings with 19 points, were the work of Christopher Ruhr, Martín Zwicker and Constantin Staib.
The group directed by Mariano Ronconi initially enlisted Juan Manuel Vivaldi; Maico Casella, Pedro Ibarra and Leandro Tolini; Juan M. López, Ignacio Ortiz, Lucas Martínez and Matías Rey; Nicolás Keenan, Lucas Vila and Agustín Bugallo.
According to the page of the International Federation (FIH) then Federico Fernández, Martín Ferreiro, Santiago Tarazona, Isidoro Ibarra, Diego Paz and Juan Catán entered.
With this result, Los Leones continue at the bottom of the table, with just 10 units, the product of two wins, three draws (they won a bonus point in one of the three definitions) and five losses.
During the next weekend, the Argentine team will be measured in a double game with his pair from India, both on Saturday the 10th and Sunday the 11th, starting at 17:00. Both matches will be played at the Cenard in Buenos Aires.
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