The Spanish swimming

How is Spanish swimming, compared with France and Italy?, Our closest neighbors, and which used to compare and reflect. For those of our readers who like statistics and rankings, we built a table in which data reflect three recent national championships in all three countries, the brand's winner, ranked tenth in each test, and the average of each end (with 10 swimmers).
  As can be seen, the weakness of the Spanish swimming falls on the side of men. If we stick to the brands of the winners, Spain still may assert his best figures, beating the French champions in 3 tests (200m.braza, 100m.mariposa and 200m.estilos), and 6 to the Italians (the three back, 200m.braza, and 50-100m.mariposa) but is surpassed by both countries in 9 of the 17 races scheduled (6 in front crawl, 100m.braza, 200m.mariposa and 400m.estilos), and only is the best in 200m.braza and 100m.mariposa. The low comparison, however, if you look at the other two factors: the 10a.marca of each test, since Italy and France are better in all 17 tests, and some of them by a large margin, and the same if we attend to what is the average of the 10 finalists, a fact in which the Spanish swimming is also behind France and Italy in all 17 tests.
 
 
  Something better presents the outlook among women, but only when it is the first factor, ie, the names of the winners. Italy is exceeded in 9 of the 17 tests (800m.crol, three in back, 100-200m.braza; 200m.mariposa and 200-400m.estilos), while 8 of them are better than France (1.500m. crawl, 50-100m.espalda, 200m.braza, 100-200m.mariposa, and 200-400m. styles), and only surpassed by both countries in 6 tests (50-100-200-400m.crol, 50m. breaststroke, and 50m.mariposa), while French and Italian dominates in 5 tests (50-100m. back, 200m. breaststroke and 200-400m.estilos).
  As regards the 10a.marca of each test, we see how the Spanish swimming began to weaken, as any evidence of the 17 is better than 10th. Italian brand, while only 4 tests (400 and 1.500m.crol, 200m.mariposa and 400m.estilos) you get beat France. As the average of the 17 end, is more or less the same as the previous one, since Italy comes out with better average in all 17 tests, while France lost only four tests, 1.500m.crol, 200m.espalda, 200m . butterfly and 400m. styles.
  Attention to the performance of front crawl, the style that comes most unfavorably, especially among men. None of the tests than the French and Italians, but the worst is that some of them are at a distance that could catalog of abysmal. We know it is only one exception, but we believe indicates that something is wrong with the recruitment of talents: in 1986 Juan Carlos Vallejo was champion of Spain with 3.58 "78, just two seconds slower than the champion of 2011, nearly quarter-century later, perhaps someone could argue that with Marco Rivera in perfect condition, this would have been able to get a better performance, which can only mean that behind it there is very little. and this could move to the 800 and 1,500 m . crawl, where we would find the same scenario, ie one man valid, and very little behind. and the same could be said of the shorter tests, no man who can look down from the 22 "50, 50" or 1.50 ", low international boundary, even here can not even speak of a leader (if Eduard Lorente, or Olaf Wildeboer at the time) that, at least, may encourage others to see if they could overcome their records.