Julia Castelló

Julia Castelló

Personal information
Nationality	Spain
Born	Spain
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for  Spain

Julia Castelló is a Paralympic swimmer from Spain.

Personal

Castelló is from the Catalan region of Spain.^[1][2] She has a physical disability.^[3] Living at the High Performance Centre (CAR) of San Cugat del Vallés in 2013, she shared a room with Melani Costa. She pair became roommates in October 2012, following the Olympic and Paralympic Games.^[3][4][5][6]

Swimming

Castelló is an S6 classified swimmer.^[1][7][8] She is affiliated with the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Physically Disabled (FEDDF).^[2]

At the 2009 IPC European Swimming Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, Sarai Gascón Moreno, Ana Rubio, Esther Morales and Julia Castelló won a bronze medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay.^[9] She won another two bronze medals at the competition.^[10][11] 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.^[12] In 2010, she attended a swimming camp with the national team that was part of the Paralympic High Performance Program (HARP Program).^[7] In 2010, she competed at the Tenerife International Open,^[13] where she set a world record for the S6 100 meter backstroke.^[7][13] She competed in the 2010 World Championship in the Netherlands.^[7] She failed to make the finals in the 50 meter butterfly.^[14]

Castelló competed at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany, where she won a bronze medal.^[15] At the 2012 Paralympic Swimming Championship of Spain by Autonomous Communities, she set a world record in the 200 meter backstroke.^[16]

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.^[17] She competed at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships.^{[1][18][19][20][21]} From the Catalan region of Spain, she was a recipient of a 2012 Plan ADO scholarship.^[22]

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