Spain, no finals in C1 in the World Cup but already has three places in Paris 2024

He Spanish canoeing slalom team signed this Friday at Lee Valley World Cup he 3/3, in the absence of men’s K1 this Saturday, regarding the match for Olympic venues in traditional modalities for Games in Paris. Of course, none of the C1 have entered their respective finals afterwards Luis Fernández and Miquel Travé in men and Klara Olazábal, Núria Vilarrubla and Miren Lazkano among women was left in the top 10 positions in the semifinals.

Spain will close the day this Friday with its medal table at silver covered in K1 woman patrolling Maialen Chourraut, Laia Sorribes and Olatz Arregui. At the individual level, there will be no Spanish representation in either of the two C1 finals in the afternoon. In the women’s K1, Laia Sorribes and Maialen Chourraut will compete in the semifinals this Saturday, and in the men’s K1, Pau Echaniz and David Llorente will compete in the same round.

With a lack of performance in the semifinals of men’s kayak, what is certain is that Spain got the penultimate round of canoe. Women’s Olympic place thanks to Klara Olazabal, eleventh and tenth to one in each country, when there are twelve places at stake. He also took out Olympic passport in C1 for men led by Luis Fernández, twentieth is tied with the Swiss Thomas Koechlin, both twelfth with one each country with twelve places at stake. According to the regulations, the draw favors Fernández because he finished first in the previous round and finished ahead of the Swiss.

Besides, The women’s K1 also has a guaranteed place because of the World Cup sixteen are shared for the Games with a maximum of one canoeist per country. There are nineteen countries in the semi-finals, but three of them (Andorra with Mònica Dória Vilarrubla, the United States with Evy Leibfarth and Ukraine with Viktoriia Us) have already achieved an Olympic place with both athletes in C1 and is not counted in the allocation, leaving sixteen countries for sixteen competing places. Maialen Chourraut and Laia Sorribes, once that goal is achieved, they will have the goal of making it to the final. It should be noted that the areas now acquired by Spain they will not be nominalbut they will be distributed to an internal RFEP selection.

A final is the grand goal in individual canoe events, but that can’t be a reality. Friday started with some women’s C1 semi-finals wherein Klara Olazábal, eleventh with 116.80 seconds, is eighty-eight hundredths away from the cut of the top ten, closed out by Brazilian Ana Satila with 115.92. Hitting door 19, which resulted in a two-second penalty, left Olazabal with no end.

All, in a round dominated by the Andorran Monica Doria Vilarrubla, with 111.01 seconds despite a press beat the American Evy Leibfarth (112.18) and the Australian Jessica Fox (112.78). Cousin of Dòria, the Spaniard Núria Vilarrublafinished sixteenth with 121.30 seconds, with a touch penalty. Miren Lazkanowith two touches, was nineteenth with 122.15.

It was also not possible to fight for the final in C1 male, where two of the three Spaniards advanced. In the playoffs he gave up Daniel Perez in the past few days. However, in the penultimate round, Luis Fernandez He was twentieth with 106.13 seconds after adding two touches. This position allowed him to guarantee the Olympic place in a tie against the Swiss Thomas Koechlin because he was ahead of him in the qualifying rounds.

Miquel Travé, for its part, penalized two seconds and was twenty-fifth with 109.68 seconds. Even without time penalties, the two Spaniards were behind the top 10 which was closed out by Italian Paolo Ceccon in 101.22 seconds. The Slovenian dominated the semifinals Benjamin Savsek with 98.09 seconds after beating the Polish Grzegorz Hedwig (98.48) and the German Sideris Tasiadis (99.43).

96+13+6 Spanish athletes have been classified for the Paris Olympic Games

-Athletics: 2 classified +13 athletes with minimum (+6 minimum in marathon, awaiting confirmation from World Athletics)
2 direct selections to meet World Athletics and RFEA criteria:
-Álvaro Martín (20 km walk)
-María Pérez (20 km walk)
13 athletes with 14 more minimum
*In all events except marathon, hybrid system of minimum (50% of places) and ranking (50% of places), so we have to wait until the end to see which athletes are classified according to each method , although World Athletics is expected to allow athletes to participate less. These are the Spaniards with the Olympic minimum:
-Adrián Ben (800 meters) Saúl Ordóñez (800 meters), Mohamed Attaoui (800 meters)
-Adrián Ben (1500 meters), Adel Mechaal (1500 meters), Mario García Romo (1500 meters)
-Mohamed Katir (5000 meters), Thierry Ndikumwenayo (5000 meters)
-Víctor Ruiz (3000 obstacles)
-Diego García Carrera (20 km walk) and Luis Alberto Amezcua (20 km walk) – World Athletics minimums, RFEA will restrict them
-Esther Guerrero (1500 meters), Marta Pérez (1500 meters)
-Irene Sánchez-Escribano (3000 obstacles)
6 marathon minimum (three per country and event)
*In the marathon, a system of ranked minimums, with a quota of places (64 per gender, three per gender per country), until January 30, 2024. Since then, 16 additional places (8 of the minimum and 8 in the ranking) Until April 30. The minimum six quotas are met (three men and three women), but they are not automatic places for Spain because they depend on that final ranking. Spanish athletes with the lowest World Athletics are shown, although they will be restricted by the RFEA. The six best Spaniards with the lowest today are:
-Women (2:26:50 minimum WA): Marta Galimany (2:26:14), Meritxell Soler (2:26:37), Fatima Ouhaddou (2:26:44) (Majida Mayouf also has a minimum with 2 : 21.01, although he still did it with Moroccan nationality)
-Boys (2:08:10 minimum WA): Tariku Novales (2:07:18), Ayad Lamdassem (2:07:37), Abdelaziz Merzougui (2:08:00)

-2 boxing: José Quiles (-57 kg), Laura Fuertes (-50 kg)
-18 football: group of men
-7 rhythmic gymnastics: Ana Arnau, Inés Bergua, Mireia Martínez, Patricia Pérez, Valeria Márquez and Salma Solaun (group, made up of six gymnasts, although only five will make the team); Polina Berezina (individual) and Alba Bautista (individual)
-6 equestrian (not nominal areas): Armando Trapote, Eduardo Álvarez Aznar, Manuel Fernández Saro and Sergio Álvarez Moya (individual and team jumping; places are achieved between four riders but in Paris only three are possible); Juan Antonio Jiménez, Alejandro Sánchez del Barco, José Daniel Martín Dockx and Severo Jurado (individual and team dressage; places are achieved between four riders but in Paris only three)
-1 swim: Hugo González (200 back and 200 style, preselection, so the place is not nominal)
-1 modern pentathlon: Laura Heredia (female)
-15 canoeing in still water (not nominal areas): Cayetano García and Pablo Martínez (C2-500); Paco Cubelos (K1-1000); Adrián del Río and Rodrigo Germade (K2-500); Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Cooper Walz and Rodrigo Germade (K4-500); Isabel Contreras (K1-500); Sara Ouzande, Estefanía González, Carolina García and Teresa Portela (K4-500); Antía Jácome (C1-200); Antía Jácome and María Corbera (C2-500)
-3 slalom canoeing (not nominal places): Luis Fernández (C1), Klara Olazábal (C1), Maialen Chourraut (K1 and with it the kayak cross)
-8 rowing (not nominal seats): Jaime Canalejo and Javier García (M2-); Caetano Horta and Dennis Carracedo (LM2x); Rodrigo Conde and Aleix García (M2x); Aina Cid and Esther Briz (W2-)
-1 jump: Ana Carvajal (ten meter platform)
-1 taekwondo: Adriana Cerezo (-49 kg)
-2 archery (not nominal areas): Miguel Alvariño (individual recurve and mixed team recurve) and Elia Canales (individual recurve and mixed team recurve)
-1 Olympic shot: Fátima Gálvez (trap)
-4 triathlons (not nominal places): Antonio Serrat, Roberto Sánchez, Miriam Casillas and Noelia Juan (mixed relay and with it individual events. The names of the best in the ranking are placed when the relay place becomes mathematical)
-11 sails (not nominal seats): Diego Botín and Florian Trittel (49er), Jordi , Joaquín Blanco (Laser)
-13 water polo: Women’s team (12 on the bench and 1 throw per game)

-Sports without sorting options: women’s sevens rugby, men’s volleyball, women’s volleyball