Spain launches for ‘Eurogames’

A year after the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the old continent was tested in the third edition of the European Games, an event organized in Krakow – Malopolska from June 20 to July 2 and in which there was the participation of 306 Spanish athletes. (156 women and 150 men). During the 13 days of competition, 28 sports will coexist in 13 different areas, all concentrated in the south of Poland. Exactly, some of these places are located only 70 kilometers from the Ukrainian border and the airlines that should transport the athletes to Krakow these days are warning of delays and cancellations due to the military maneuvers that conducted by NATO in place.

In sum, the ‘Eurogames’ will distribute 102 direct tickets to participate in Paris 2024, with ten sports that will use this event as a pre-Olympic (boxing, break dancing, artistic swimming, modern pentathlon, slalom canoeing, rugby sevens, swimming jumps, table tennis, archery and shooting Olympics). The Spanish delegation headed by Spanish Olympic Committee travels to Krakow with a team of 260 parts, to which should be added 46 representatives of athletes who will go directly to Chorzów with RFEA. Selection will compete with Silesian Stadium in the European Team Championship in the first division (formerly Super League), where it will try to improve on the fifth position obtained in 2021.

National leaders will be Mo Katirwho came as the European leader of the year in the 5,000m and winner of the Diamond League in Florence and Ana Peleteiro, who will return with the Spanish team to an international competition 15 months after starting a maternity break. The triple jumper is ready to regain his best version and has maintained the motivation that led him to bronze at Tokyo 2020.

Spain will have nine Tokyo 2020 medalists in Poland, among them the Olympic champions in the mixed pit, Alberto Fernandez and Fatima Galvez. Both are aspiring and looking to repeat their success at Paris 2024. Canoeing will once again be the javelin, with a total of 32 representatives in its modalities of slalom (white water) and sprint (calm water). the unburnt Maialen Chourraut He wants to add his fourth Olympic medal in Paris 2024 (gold in Rio 2016, silver in Tokyo 2020 and bronze in London 2012) and the path depends on achieving a good result in Krakow. In calm water, one of the great assets of next year’s medal repeat in the French capital (they were silver in Tokyo 2020) is the boat of the K4-500, new world champions, who have Saúl Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz, Rodrigo Germade and Carlos Arévalo. The latter will surely be Spain’s standard bearer at the opening ceremony this Wednesday along with the handball player Patricia Encinas.

For his part, Maria Corbera and Antia Jacome they form a stellar duo in the C2-200 and wish everyone well in the next Games as well. In taekwondo, the great national benchmark will be Adriana Cerezo who, despite his youth (19 years old), already knows what it is to compete face to face with the best specialists in the world. He achieved a highly acclaimed silver at Tokyo 2020 and combined his great performance with a European title in 2021 and a world bronze in 2023. In mountain biking, david valero He faces the European with big ambitions after being bronze at Tokyo 2020, world runner-up in 2022 and European bronze in 2018. The entire competition can be followed live on Teledeporte.