Alberto Martinez

Club Natación Barcelona · ESP

Alberto is a swimmer from Spain, a distance freestyler and an international traveller on the circuit, whose official competitive record spans 12 seasons, 13 years, 4 countries and 124 meets.

His recorded career begins in 2011, and one of his earliest marks still on file is the 100 butterfly in 1:04.06, raced in Murcia.

His signature event is the 400 freestyle, his reference distance in freestyle, ahead of the 200 freestyle and 1500 freestyle. Freestyle is the backbone of the whole record: 114 meets and 341 recorded swims.

His best 400 freestyle time in long course (50 m) is 3:56.86, set in 2019 at Sabadell.

His record includes national championships, between 2018 and 2021 (Spanish National Championships (25m) and Spanish National Championships (50m)). A representative mark at that level is 15:28.90 in the 1500 freestyle, recorded in long course (50 m). He also appears in international meets.

After a 2-year break between 2021 and 2023, he came back to racing and the record picks up again in 2023.

He is a genuinely international swimmer: the official record spans 4 countries (Spain, France, Japan and the Netherlands), including 5 of 124 meets outside Spain.

Those meets span 9 different venues (Barcelona, Mataró, Terrassa and Sabadell…). He has raced for Spanish Swimming Federation, Club Natacion Marina Cartagena Ancora, Club Natación Barcelona and C.N. MARINA-CARTAGENA.

His most recent recorded season is 2023. He closes this record with 34 current event personal bests and 282 all-time PB improvements, across 524 verified official swims in competitions governed by RFEN and World Aquatics.

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