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Cristina is a swimmer from Spain, a backstroke specialist and an international traveller on the circuit, whose official competitive record spans 16 seasons, 17 years, 9 countries and 204 meets.
Her recorded career begins in 2008 in A_lc Benj Balaguer, where she raced the 25 backstroke in 27.91. She started out alongside C.N. LLEIDA.
Her signature event is the 200 backstroke, the event she has raced the most, followed by the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle. Backstroke is the backbone of the whole record: 160 meets and 428 recorded swims.
Her fastest 200 backstroke stands at 2:09.95, set in long course (50 m) at Malaga.
Her record includes international meets, in 2019 (Grand Prix Pardubice 2019 and Mare Nostrum - Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona 2019). A representative mark at that level is 2:15.02 in the 200 backstroke, recorded in long course (50 m).
After a 2-year break between 2010 and 2012, she came back to racing and the record picks up again in 2012. 2014 is the busiest season on record, with 109 verified individual swims.
She is a genuinely international swimmer: the official record spans 9 countries (Spain, Czechia, Israel, Argentina, Finland, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and the United States), including 10 of 204 meets outside Spain.
Those meets span 21 different venues (Barcelona, Lleida, Sabadell and Terrassa…). She has raced for C.N. SABADELL, C.N. TERRASSA and C.N. LLEIDA.
The last race on record is dated November 17, 2024 in Madrid, with 1 swim: 1:03.28 in the 100 backstroke, all in short course (25 m). She closes this record with 39 current event personal bests and 332 all-time PB improvements, across 854 verified official swims in competitions governed by RFEN and World Aquatics.