The Pingüinos Sports Club achieved a historic performance at the Regional Winter Artistic Swimming Championship, held on February 7 and 8, 2026, at the facilities of the Metropole Club, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Five Canary Islands clubs attended the event, and CD Pingüinos was proclaimed club champion in the three categories in which it participated: Alevín, Infantil, and Junior.The club achieved an absolute sweep of golds, consolidating its leadership in Canarian artistic swimming and projecting the name of Lanzarote beyond the island, in a championship that evidenced the excellent competitive level and the solidity of the CD Pingüinos sports project
Alevín: The explosion of the quarry. In the Alevín category, CD Pingüinos competed with 13 athletes within a category that brought together 54 participants, winning in both figures and the group routine.
In figures, Avril Bethencourt delivered an outstanding performance, becoming regional champion, closely followed by her teammates Alba de Eusebio, Martyna Golawska, Alba Méndez, Natalia Martínez, Eva Penichet, and Carlota Martín, who also placed on the first page of results, coming very close to individual podium spots and demonstrating the high competitive level and solidity of the club's pre-benjamin team.Aitana Acuña, Miranda Morales, María Tinoco, Carla Alemán, Athenea Montero, and Gabriela Gil completed the participation. All of them won gold collectively in the combined routine, where the CD Pingüinos' pre-juvenile swimmers were proclaimed regional champions with a vibrant performance to the rhythm of the Spice Girls, pink swimsuits included, overflowing with energy, synchronization, and competitive spirit, and confirming that teamwork is one of the club's great hallmarks
Children's: technical excellence and absolute dominance. The Children's category was once again one of the great pillars of CD Pingüinos' success, with 19 athletes (4 male) participating in figures, two combos, and three mixed duets.
In figures, Miguel Martínez was proclaimed regional champion, heading a classification in which Nahomy López, Lucía Pérez, Adriana Delgado, and Chloe Ablanedo also stood out, all of them situated in reference positions
Absolute dominance in mixed duets, with a triple podium consisting of the gold of Adriana Delgado and Miguel Martínez, the silver of Pau Hernández and Nahomy López, and the bronze of Eduardo Curbelo and Mar Saavedra.
The children's combos offered a great level. The first won the regional gold, delighting the public with a powerful routine with an Egyptian theme, where Miguel Martínez became a true water "pharaoh", leading a performance that shone both for its artistic execution and its competitive force. This combo included Chloe Ablanedo, Eduardo Curbelo, Adriana Delgado, Pau Hernández, Vega Jiménez, Nahomy López, Miguel Martínez, Sofía Méndez, Lucía Pérez and Mar Saavedra.
The second children's combo completed an equally meritorious participation, achieving a worthy fourth place, with Lucio Bethencourt, Julieta Cabrera, Nora Díaz, Ana María Marcu, Lucía Martín, Carla Martín, Noa Nieto and Irene Sánchez, also contributing decisively to the club gold in the category
Junior: perfect symmetry, spectacle, and mastery. In the Junior category, CD Pingüinos once again demonstrated its sporting maturity and its ability to compete at the highest level, also achieving gold for clubs and an overwhelming collection of golds and silvers in practically all the disciplines contested.
In individual tests, Miguel Martínez and Eduardo Curbelo shared the gold in men's solo, while Nerea Hernández obtained a silver in women's solo. The women's and mixed duets took the top two steps of the podium, Elizabeth Rodríguez and Ciara Rodríguez (women's), Miguel Martínez, Adriana Cabrera and Adriana Delgado (mixed), were proclaimed regional champions, while Adriana Cabrera and Vega Martínez (women's) and Eduardo Curbelo, Vega Martínez and Lucía Pérez (mixed) achieved the silver
Highlights the work of the junior category made up of Adriana Cabrera, Vega Martínez, Victoria Romero, Laura Alemán, Eduardo Curbelo, Dolores de León, Daniela Brito, Eva Díaz, Elizabeth Rodríguez, Ciara Rodríguez, Sergio Castellano, Laia Hernández, Lucía Pérez, Nahomy Sofía López, who culminated the championship with a spectacular performance, swimming and dancing to the tune of “Bailando” by Alaska. The technical difficulty of the routines, synchronicity, good execution, and artistic impression allowed them to reach the podium, achieving three more golds, in the technical team, free team, and acrobatic routine.
The club president, Isabel Martín, stated: "These results are the fruit of collective work, of the commitment of our athletes, coaches, and the constant support of families. The breadth of our representation in the championship demonstrates the solidity, inclusion, and future vision of the project, and it fills us with pride to be able to carry the name of Lanzarote to the highest level of Canarian artistic swimming".
And he added: "We want to especially highlight the broad male participation of CD Pingüinos, with five male athletes competing in the Infantil and Junior categories, something still unusual in artistic swimming. This reality consolidates us as a national benchmark in male inclusion. The incorporation of our new coach, Quentin Rakotomalala, from France, an international benchmark in men's artistic swimming, whose arrival reinforces the projection and ambition of this sports project, is also part of this line."
Acknowledgements: The Pingüinos Sports Club wishes to expressly thank the involvement and effort of its athletes, the true core of this project, as well as the tireless work of the technical team, led by technical director Sylvia Hernández, along with Alessandra Mauri, Arantxa Quesada, Nayara Peña and the recently incorporated Quentin Rakotomalala.
Likewise, the club wishes to express, in the words of its president, its most sincere gratitude to public institutions and all its sponsors, whose support is essential for sports projects like this to continue and achieve such ambitious goals. These successes are the result of the joint effort of families, the Club, the RCNA and the institutional support of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, EPEL-CACT, Arrecife City Council, Government of the Canary Islands, Teguise City Council, the Lanzarote External Promotion Society, as well as collaborating companiesThe CD Pingüinos also thanks the excellent reception and organization of Club Metropole as the host entity of the championship, as well as the work of the Canary Islands Swimming FederationThe technical director, Sylvia Hernández highlighted the full sweep of golds achieved in the two days and underlined that the team is already working with its sights set on the next national challenges, with the participation of the Alevín and Infantil categories from March 6 to 8 in Pontevedra, and the Junior category from March 20 to 22 in Tenerife (Puerto de la Cruz)