Jose ‘Crazy Horse’ Quiles (Elda, 1997) was the great Spanish hero of the day in the Nowy Targ ring by overcoming his semifinal bout (-57kg) and picking gold in Krakow-Malopolska European Games. Spain is already on the medal table with 49 medals, that would be 50 after knowing the color which Quiles wins.
The man from Alicante unleashed his left hook to walk – pure bombshell – and defeated current European champion Vasile Usturoi, 5-0, winning all three rounds. “The match was very technical. The Belgian came from being the European champion, it was complicated, but we listened to the coaches and it turned out perfect”, he explained to Mundo Deportivo shortly after the match.
Undisputed victory for the Spaniard to stand in the final on Sunday (1:45 pm) against the Bulgarian of Cuban origin Javier Ibanez and choose to climb to the top of the podium. “I reached the semifinals and got the Olympic ticket, but the goal is always gold,” he said. Quiles, who has already participated in the Tokyo 2020 Games, will travel to Paris hungry to fight it all. “I don’t set limits,” he warned.
Signed Spanish boxing two coppers on this same day with Emmanuel Reyes Pla at -92kg and laura is strong at -50kg. Both lost in the semifinals, but in the case of the Spanish-Cuban the defeat was more painful because he lost direct qualification for the Olympic Games. “Now we have to look for pre-Olympic qualification and I will work hard to achieve it,” he said with resignation after the painful defeat.
For his part, Powerful he got the Olympic place and will be the first Spanish boxer in history to debut at the Games. “It is an honor that I hope to match with a good result. That’s what we have to do now, work hard to get to Paris as much as possible”, he explained with a smile.
Carolina Marín is heading straight for her seventh European
Carolina Marin She qualified for the badminton semifinals through the front door, after defeating Estonian Kristin Kuuba with authority 21-10, 21-10. The woman from Huelva, sweeping this tournament and not giving up a game, is one step away from winning medals and earning her seventh European title.
In slalom canoeing, the Spanish women’s team came close to the medal, with fourth place in ‘patrols’. At the individual level, Spain qualified four of its six representatives for the canoe semifinals (Nuria Vilarrubla, Miquel Travé, Miren Lazkano and Daniel Pérez).
Within olympic moat medals contested, with Tokyo 2020 mixed champion, Fátima Gálvez, sixth, and Mar Molné, seventh. In the male category, Andrés García was eighth.
Source: La Verdad
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