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Julia Castelló

Personal information
Full name	Julia Castelló Farré
Nationality	Spain
Born	(1990-03-16) 16 March 1990 (age 34) Barcelona, Spain
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Women's para swimming Representing  Spain IPC World Championships 2015 Glasgow SB5 100 m breaststroke IPC European Championships 2014 Eindhoven 4x50m mixed freestyle relay 20pts 2014 Eindhoven 100m backstroke S6 2009 Reykjavik 100 m backstroke S6 2009 Reykjavik 4×100 m medley relay 34pts

Julia Castelló Farré (born 16 March 1990) is a Paralympic swimmer from Spain.

Personal

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

Swimming

Castelló is an S6 classified swimmer. She is affiliated with the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Physically Disabled (FEDDF).

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

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

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. She competed at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships. From the Catalan region of Spain, she was a recipient of a 2012 Plan ADO scholarship.

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Castelló and the second or maternal family name is Farré.

References

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External links

• Julia Castello Farre at the Comité Paralímpico Español (archived) (in Spanish)

• 1990 births
• Living people
• Spanish female backstroke swimmers
• Spanish female breaststroke swimmers
• Spanish female freestyle swimmers
• Paralympic swimmers for Spain
• Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
• Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
• Swimmers from Barcelona
• Plan ADOP alumni
• Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
• Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
• 21st-century Spanish sportswomen