Swimming: 3rd silver medal for Gastaldello at the Euro

Glasgow (AFP)

France's Béryl Gastaldello added a third silver medal, 50m backstroke, to her collection at the European Short Course Swimming Championships Saturday in Glasgow (Scotland).

Gastaldello (24) finished in 26 sec 03. Only Kira Toussaint of the Netherlands was faster (25.84).

The Texan adopted has already been silver medalist in the 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly earlier in the week, she who was not mounted on any individual international podium before the Scottish competition.

She also shared the gold of the 4x50 freestyle ladies relay (tied with the Netherlands) on Friday. Then he added the bronze of the mixed 4x50 m at the end of the program on Saturday, associated with Maxime Grousset, Florent Manaudou and Mélanie Hénique (1: 28.86).

The team of France thus harvests its seventh reward (including 2 in gold) of the continental competition.

Another Frenchwoman in the running, Mathilde Cini was sixth (26.39) in the final.es/kau

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