The Doha Swimming World Cup will be unforgettable for Agostina Hein
.
At
15 years old
, the Argentine swimmer achieved this Friday the best time of her life in the
800 meter freestyle
and she will repeat her presence in a senior final, just as she had achieved a few days ago in the 400m test. .
Her
8 minutes, 29 seconds and 44 hundredths
of a second represented fifth place in the standings and left her just 20 hundredths off the B mark for Paris 2024.
But these numbers, often classified as 'cold', hide a background that the protagonist herself was in charge of revealing, already at the hotel, with a crude post on her social networks, with a special dedication: "
For all those who doubted when they didn't we could get up. For all those who spoke, without knowing what it is like to be, without feeling the slightest part of what it feels like. For those who did not mind putting their pride and even image ahead of their dreams. For those who always have something to comment on and nothing to add
. "
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"Four years ago I didn't think I'd get to where I am. It's been 1 year since I've lowered my marks in my main tests. In the middle there were doubts, why did I not get it by doing everything right? The answer was too simple, a certain part of me "I doubted, I doubted myself, what I could do. Today all those doubts are certainties. Certainty that I am stronger than I think
," he concluded.
Hein, bronze medalist in the 2023 Junior World Cup with four seconds more than the mark he set this Friday, will go out to the pool at 2:23 p.m. (Argentine time, with DSports television) in search of a dream and a central objective:
"For my family, for my friends and, most importantly, for me
. "
"For all those who spoke without knowing what it is like to be there. For those who always have something to say and nothing to add (...) 4 years ago I did not believe I would get to where I am. It has been 1 year since I lowered my marks
" TODAY THOSE DOUBTS ARE CERTAINTY"đź’Ş
Agos Hein.
15 years and a lot of personality https://t.co/FWOfqtXqsD pic.twitter.com/lu0TDioI4Y
— DEPORTV (@canaldeportv) February 16, 2024
The thing is that she also did not want to forget those who accompanied her during this time, those who believed in her dreams.
"For those who hug me when times are not easy. For my family, who supported me from day one and always believed in me. For my friends, my colleagues and friends who are always there and have a word of support. For me coach (Sebastián Montero), who dreams of me, who loves this sport as much as his family. For my work team, who never doubts me, even when I do it myself. And finally for all the people I do not name, but he has supported me from day one
," he said.
More calmly, a while later, she spoke with the public sports channel (Deportv) and acknowledged:
"I took a weight off of myself, I hadn't been able to lower my marks for a year. It hadn't been given to me. In the middle "There was a lot of crying, wondering why I couldn't do it. When I touched the plate I started crying
. "
🔝TO THE FINAL AT ONLY 15 YEARS OLD!
🏊‍♂️Agostina Hein entered the final of the 800 meters freestyle at the World Cup in Doha and told of his joy in #DEPORTVCentral.
"I still can't believe it, I never imagined he would be able to achieve all this"
đź‘ŹPresent and future of our swimming.
pic.twitter.com/0s51RzRH0b
— DEPORTV (@canaldeportv) February 16, 2024
Six of the nine competitors in the final are under 24 years old and there are two names known to the Argentines, because they were rivals of Delfina Pignatiello: the Italian
Simona Quadarella
and the Hungarian
Ajna Kesely
, who won two gold medals at the Olympic Games. of the Youth of Buenos Aires 2018.
In the 400 meters final she had placed eighth, with a time of 4:10:33, while she also competed in the 1500 meters, where she placed 11th with 16:21.68.