Last Friday at Madrid–Barajas Airport, Wikinews interviewed Spanish Paralympic swimmer Deborah Font, who is competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships that started this Monday in Montreal, Canada.  Font has finished second in Monday's Women's 100 meter Freestyle S12 Heat 1, before going on to finish fourth in the Women's 100 meter Freestyle S12 Final with a time of 1:03.20, less than a second behind bronze medalist German Naomi Maike Schnittger.
((Wikinews))   I'm Laura Hale, I'm interviewing Deborah Font for Wikinews. Deborah is going to the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal. You're already a Paralympic medallist, right? You've won several medals at the Paralympics before?
((WN))  And in World Championships?
((WN))  What style do you swim?
((WN))  Okay, and you're going to do that in Montreal?
((WN))  You think you're going to get a medal?
((WN))  What classification are you?
((WN))  S-12. So you have partial vision.
((WN))  Since you cannot see perfectly, when you swim, can you see the people next to you?
((WN))  Do you think about other swimmers when you swim, or is it a disadvantage because you cannot see swimmers farther away?
((WN))  They don't matter when you swim? You swim against yourself, your best time?
((WN))  Do you have any sponsors?
((WN))  How difficult is it to swim in Spain for Paralympic swimmers when you don't have sponsors?
((WN))  Where are you from?
((WN))  Is swimming more competitive in Barcelona, in Madrid...? Where do you think the best swimmers come from?
((WN))  Is there a reason most of the swimmers train in Barcelona?
((WN))  Coming in into the World Championships, did you do any special training, or change how you prepare?
((WN))  This is a pretty dumb question, but I know a lot of people who look at blind swimmers and they go how can they swim at a straight line? Can you clarify how people with vision impairments can actually swim?
((WN))  Thank you very much!

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Wikinews interviews Spanish Paralympic swimmer Deborah Font