00:00When Carlos Daniel Serrano was born, he was diagnosed with acondroplasia,
00:04a disease that is caused by a genetic alteration,
00:08and that is the cause of 90% of the cases of enanism in the world.
00:13His parents, especially his mother Sandra Zárate,
00:16wanted to find his child in the sport a way of superation.
00:20Since he was a child, they tried to be a nadador,
00:23but the young Serrano was afraid of the swimming pool.
00:26Terca, his family insisted to lose the fear of the water,
00:31and little by little, while the santandereano began to demonstrate
00:34that it was a prodigio of the water, the fear became a morgue.
00:38That persistence changed the history, because without knowing it,
00:41in the swimming pools of Bucaramanga,
00:43the most champion of the Colombian sport of all the time.
00:47I am very happy, very proud of my entrenamientos,
00:51for everything I have achieved,
00:52for everything I have achieved,
00:53because there have been days that I have to cry in my entrenamientos,
00:58and that little by little, I have been augmenting my strength,
01:02my level, my love for the swimming pool.
01:04Maybe many do not know their history,
01:07maybe some do not know their name.
01:09However, Carlos Daniel Serrano is a living legend in the history of the Olympics.
01:15Serrano is one of the big para nadadores of history,
01:18with more than 100 World titles in his haber and several hitos Paralímpicos,
01:23including medals and records mundiales.
01:26Along with Nelson Crispin, another historian of the para nadadores of Santander,
01:31Carlos Daniel Serrano has been a decade doing history in the para nadadores of the world.
01:36Serrano was a promise in the Juegos Para Panamericanos Juveniles of Buenos Aires in 2013.
01:42In that time, he had 15 years old, but already planned to be a big estrella mundial.
01:48He confirmed three years later, when in the Paralímpic Games of 2016,
01:54he won his first three medals, one of gold, one of gold and one of bronze.
01:58His legend would be even more important in Tokyo 2020.
02:03Allí he got another gold medal, another gold, another gold and another bronze.
02:09Destacado sobre todo en la prueba de pecho, el colombiano también ha sido dominador en las
02:15pruebas de la paranatación de estilo libre, mariposa y por estilos.
02:19A París llegó con la promesa de seguir haciendo historia y cumplió por todo lo alto.
02:25Solo el paratletismo le ha dado tantas alegrías a Colombia como lo ha hecho la paranatación.
02:30Fue el primer deporte que le dio una medalla paralímpica al país en 1980.
02:35Pocos conocen el legado de Pedro José Mejía, pero el Vallecaucano es historia del deporte colombiano.
02:43Por culpa de un medicamento durante su etapa de gestación, creció sin que se le desarrollara
02:48ni el fémur ni la tibia de la pierna izquierda.
02:50Con poco apoyo, en una época en la que poco se conocía del deporte paralímpico en Colombia,
02:57Mejía ganó un oro y un bronce en los Juegos Paralímpicos.
03:00Pasaron casi 30 años para que Colombia volviera a subirse al podio.
03:05Lo haría además de en el paratletismo, también en la paranatación, pues en 2008 Moisés Fuentes
03:12se llevó una de bronce. Repetiría medalla, pero de plata, en Londres.
03:17Y después, en Río 2016, empezaría la leyenda de Carlos Daniel Serrano y Nelson Crispín.
03:24Dos paranadadores que siguen haciendo muy grande su legado y que cambiaron la historia
03:30del deporte paralímpico en Colombia.
03:32Serrano apenas tiene 26 años, todavía le quedan muchas páginas por escribir.
03:54Gracias.
03:55Gracias.
03:55Gracias.
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