Connoisseurs evoke an aquatic marathon “outsized” every year in Argentina, 57 km in open water in Santa Fe in the Coronda River. And it is this new challenge that the disabled athlete from Lunéville is launching this Sunday, November 13, Theo Curin
.
On his social networks, the young sportsman publishes a video in which he confides his mad desire, “crazy challenge“to line up at the start of this race”legend, very well known in Argentina, a kind of New York Marathon for swimmers, followed by hundreds of thousands of spectators”.
To become “the first Paralympic athlete to finish the race”
Théo Curin adds that he trained for a year to become “the first Paralympic athlete to complete this race, which makes him dream“Since he has been a competitor_. “We are not alone in the river”,_ he jokes in front of his Internet users_, “we swim with crocodiles, piranhas and jellyfish! “_
The champion invites everyone to join him on his social networks
to support him and follow his exploits
The Lunévillois who had four limbs amputated after contracting meningitis at the age of 6, already achieved a great feat last year, crossing the Titicaca Lake
between Bolivia and Peru, swimming, independently with swimmers Malia Metella and Mathieu Witvoet, after 11 days and 122 kilometers of swimming.
Théo Curin still has a participation in the Paralympic Games in 2016, when he was 16 years old, then double world vice-champion in 2017, bronze medalist in 200m freestyle swimming at the world championships in London in 2019 .