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Julia Castelló Farré[lower-alpha 1][1] (born 16 March 1990) is a Paralympic swimmer from Spain.

Julia Castelló

Personal information
Full name	Julia Castelló Farré
Nationality	Spain
Born	(1990-03-16) 16 March 1990 (age 32) Barcelona, Spain
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Women's para swimming Representing  Spain IPC World Championships 2015 Glasgow SB5 100 m breaststroke IPC European Championships 2014 Eindhoven 4x50m mixed freestyle relay 20pts 2014 Eindhoven 100m backstroke S6 2009 Reykjavik 100 m backstroke S6 2009 Reykjavik 4×100 m medley relay 34pts

Personal

Castelló is from the Catalan region of Spain.[2][3] She has a physical disability.[4] Living at the High Performance Centre (CAR) of San Cugat del Vallés in 2013, she shared a room with Melani Costa. The pair became roommates in October 2012, following the Olympic and Paralympic Games.[4][5][6][7]

Swimming

Castelló is an S6 classified swimmer.[2][8][9] She is affiliated with the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Physically Disabled (FEDDF).[3]

At the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships in Reykjavík, Iceland, Sarai Gascón Moreno, Ana Rubio, Esther Morales Fernández and Julia Castelló won a bronze medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay.[10] She won another two bronze medals at the competition.[11][12] 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.[13] In 2010, she attended a swimming camp with the national team that was part of the Paralympic High Performance Program (HARP Program).[8] In 2010, she competed at the Tenerife International Open,[14] where she set a world record for the S6 100 meter backstroke.[8][14] She competed in the 2010 World Championship in the Netherlands.[8] She failed to make the finals in the 50 meter butterfly.[15]

Castelló competed at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany, where she won a bronze medal.[16] At the 2012 Paralympic Swimming Championship of Spain by Autonomous Communities, she set a world record in the 200 meter backstroke.[17]

Castelló 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. She also set Spanish records at the competition in the 50 and 100 meter backstroke.[18] She competed at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships.[2][19][20][21][22] From the Catalan region of Spain, she was a recipient of a 2012 Plan ADO scholarship.[23]

Notes

References

External links

• Julia Castello Farre at the Comité Paralímpico Español (in Spanish)

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