Carmen Weiler heard the Spanish song for the first time in the European pools contested in the Polish city of Lublin, behind this new continental championship over 200 metres. One day, Weiler, who studied and entered the United States under the orders of Spanish Sergi López, set a new Spanish record by setting a time of 2:01.66 minutes.
It is a second lower than the largest national brand established last year at the World Cup in Budapest, while in Spain, 21 years ago, it was fifth at the same distance. Brand placed Weiler, who was born in Bangkok and raised in Singapore, as the favorite of all, despite her reaching the final with the third-best record behind France’s Pauline Maheu and Britain’s Katie Shanahan.
Carmen Weiler, who has a German father and a Spanish mother, knew she had a lot of room for improvement under her belt, and that canoeing was worth it in the final. It did not matter much to Spain that Maheu, who had been at the European Championships in Otopeni more than two years ago, jumped and cleared the first fifty meters in first place with a gain of just 18 hundredths. Carmie Wheeler overtook the French over the next long distance to find herself in the first arena, which she would not relinquish until the end. After missing the fiftieth of the final, the Spanish swimmer was 87 hundredths away from the ceremony.
Carmen Weiler also finally defeated Britain’s Katie Shanahan with a time of 1.13 seconds, who did not deny the final defeat of France’s Pauline Maheu to repeat the silver medal she won in 2023 in Otopeni. Fatigue, which did not prevent Mahi from occupying the third stage of the podium after she touched the wall with a time of 2:03.02 minutes, which is nearly a second and with an average of -1.36- more than the Spanish Carmen Weiler.
The Spaniards will try to repeat the podium again in some of the other three tests, such as the 50 and 100 backstroke, in addition to the 100 freestyle, in which Weiler will return to compete with these Europeans in Lublin.