Hugo Gonzalez turned the primary male Spanish swimmer in nearly 30 years to choose up a gold medal on the World Aquatics Championships on Friday, profitable the lads’s 200-metre backstroke ultimate in Doha, Qatar.
The 24-year-old, who has a Spanish father and a Brazilian mom, clinched gold with a time of 1 minute, 55.30 seconds, with Roman Mityukov one-tenth-of-a-second off the tempo in second place and Pieter Coetze taking third.
Gonzalez had narrowly missed out on a gold within the males’s 100-metre backstroke ultimate on Tuesday, ending simply two-hundredths of a second behind winner Hunter Armstrong.
Martin Lopez-Zubero is the one earlier Spanish male swimmer to say World Championships gold, profitable the lads’s 200-metre backstroke title in 1991 earlier than main the way in which within the 100-metre backstroke three years later.