Duane Da Rocha

Olympedia: Duane Da Rocha Marcé, born 7 January 1988 in Brasília (Distrito Federal, Brazil). Club on the Olympic profile: UCAM CN Fuensanta (Murcia). Olympic committee: Spain.

The Andalusian Olympic Foundation places the start at the Las Lagunas municipal school in 1996, with Marta Ceballos, and the first club at Natación Mijas, with a debut at the Andalusian championship in 1997, aged 10.

The same biography, updated to 2 December 2020, traces the later clubs: from 2005, the Joaquín Blume residence and the Madrid high-performance centre, with Paul Wildeboer; from 2008, Real Canoe Natación Club, with José Ignacio González and Miguel Bustos, until she left the club in late 2013; the 2014–2015 season still at CN Mijas, training at the Sant Cugat high-performance centre with José Antonio del Castillo; 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 at UCAM Fuensanta in Murcia; 2017–2018 back at CN Mijas; 2018–2019 licensed to CD Natación Bidasoa XXI, without racing.

Mijas town council and AS, on 9 October 2013, confirm the return to CN Mijas, the club where she was formed, and training at Inacua Málaga. Both notes write Xavier Casademont. The Foundation writes Javier Casademont. The given name does not match, so it is left unresolved.

Club Natación Mijas writes that she was linked to the club throughout her career. That sentence is the club’s. The Foundation also documents Canoe, UCAM Fuensanta and the Bidasoa licence.

London 2012, from Olympedia: tied for 18th in the 100 m backstroke, 13th in the 200 m backstroke and 13th for Spain in the 4×100 m medley relay. 13th in the 200 m backstroke is a semifinal place. The tie for 18th in the 100 m backstroke is not.

The Foundation details London: 100 m backstroke on 29 July, 7th in heat 4 in 1:00.57; 200 m backstroke on 2 August, 3rd in heat 4 in 2:09.72 and 7th in the first semifinal in 2:09.88; the next day, the backstroke leg of the 4×100 m medley relay, 7th in the heat in 4:03.05, with no final.

Rio 2016, from Olympedia: 15th in the 100 m backstroke and 19th in the 200 m backstroke. The Foundation adds the 200 m backstroke qualifying time, 2:10.64, at the 2016 Spanish spring Open in Sabadell, and the Rio times: 1:00.87 in the 100 m backstroke heats on 7 August, 1:00.85 in the semifinal, and 2:11.17 in the 200 m backstroke heats on 11 August.

Long-course European champion: gold in the 200 m backstroke in Berlin on 19 August 2014 (World Aquatics and Olympedia). AS gives 2:09.37 in the final, with Melani Costa sixth in 2:11.15. RTVE publishes the same 2:09.37, Elizabeth Simmonds’s silver in 2:09.66 and Daria Ustinova’s bronze in 2:09.79.

The Spanish 200 m backstroke record is the semifinal, not that final. On 18 August 2014 AS places 2:09.13 in the first semifinal, four tenths under Nina Zhivanevskaya’s mark from 4 July 2000 in Helsinki. This profile does not say the record still stands: it was not checked against the current RFEN list.

She was also a short-course European champion: gold in the 200 m backstroke in Eindhoven on 28 November 2010, and at the same meet bronze in the 100 m backstroke on 26 November 2010. Silver in the 200 m backstroke in Szczecin on 11 December 2011. Long-course 200 m backstroke bronzes: Budapest on 10 August 2010, and Debrecen on 22 May 2012. The medals and dates are from World Aquatics. Olympedia lists the same medals.

Short-course World Championships: bronze in the 200 m backstroke in Istanbul on 14 December 2012 (World Aquatics and Olympedia). Shenzhen Universiade: bronze in the 200 m backstroke on 19 August 2011 (World Aquatics and Olympedia).

Mediterranean Games, from Olympedia: silver in the 100 m backstroke, the 200 m backstroke and the 4×100 m medley relay at Pescara 2009; silver in the 50 m backstroke and the 4×100 m medley relay at Tarragona 2018.

The Foundation adds, without a medal, the 2004 Madrid absolute Europeans (23rd in the 200 m backstroke) and Glasgow 2018 (20th in the 100 m backstroke). It also summarises four long-course World Championships: Montreal 2005, 16th in the 200 m backstroke and 14th in the 4×100 m medley relay; Shanghai 2011, 14th in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke and 12th in the 4×100 m medley relay; Barcelona 2013, 10th in the 50 m backstroke, the 100 m backstroke and the 4×100 m medley relay, and 21st in the 200 m backstroke; Kazan 2015, 16th in the 200 m backstroke and the 4×100 m medley relay, and 31st in the 100 m backstroke. Those places come from the Foundation biography, not from Olympedia.

At 15, from the Foundation: gold in the 50 m, 100 m and 200 m backstroke at the Spanish junior winter championship, 25 m pool, in Barcelona (2003); gold in the 200 m backstroke and bronze in the 100 m backstroke at the absolute summer championship, 50 m pool, in Palma de Mallorca (2003). At the 2003 Glasgow junior Europeans: 24th in the 50 m backstroke, 11th in the 100 m backstroke, 5th in the 200 m backstroke and 9th in the 4×100 m medley relay. In 2004: the three backstroke golds at the León junior nationals, the absolute 200 m backstroke title in short course in Valencia, and the 23rd place at the Madrid absolute Europeans already noted.

The Foundation counts 63 Spanish titles and itemises them. Open, 18: 50 m backstroke (2018); 100 m backstroke (2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2018); 200 m backstroke (2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014). Winter, individual events: 50 m backstroke (2012), 100 m backstroke (2005, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017), 200 m backstroke (2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016) and 100 m individual medley (2011 and 2015). Summer, individual events: 100 m backstroke (2008, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2016), 200 m backstroke (2003, 2005, 2010 and 2013) and 200 m individual medley (2009, 2010 and 2013).

Relays, from the same count. Winter: 4×50 m medley (2010 and 2011, with Canoe), 4×100 m medley (2010, 2011 and 2013 with Canoe, and 2016 with UCAM Fuensanta), 4×100 m freestyle (2011) and 4×200 m freestyle (2013), the last two with Canoe. Summer, always with Canoe: 4×50 m medley (2009), 4×100 m medley (2009, 2010 and 2013), 4×100 m freestyle (2013) and 4×200 m freestyle (2010 and 2013). The Foundation’s total, individual events and relays, is 63.

On 17 January 2019 Diario Sur reported the retirement announcement at age 31. The Foundation biography, updated to 2 December 2020, says she stopped racing at the end of 2018 and that in 2020 she was teaching at the Las Lagunas pool in Mijas. On 26 November 2025 Diario Sur reported that the Mijas council unanimously approved, at the ordinary November meeting, naming the covered pool at La Cala after her.