Echaniz, eighth in the World Cup with an Olympic ticket; Chourraut, endless

He Spanish slalom canoeing This Saturday he experienced his first individual final in Lee Valley World Cup (United Kingdom). He did it with his hands Pau Echanizthat finished eighth in men’s K1 on a day when the girls, led by Maialen Chourrautdid not make the cut for the women’s semifinals in both modalities.

Beyond these results, In his position, Echaniz was able to guarantee an Olympic place for Spain in this modality. Because of this, the team will close the championship in its duties before the Olympics, including four out of four possible seats are already tied. These are not nominal, but will be implemented through selected RFEP standards. They are achieved, if the best result in each modality is taken into account, for Luis Fernández and Klara Olazábal in canoe and Pau Echaniz and Maialen Chourraut in kayakwith also the option to participate with a representative of each gender in the new tests of cross kayak Now it is only the pre-Olympic of this modality to see if the second place by gender is added.

Spain tied for the Olympic places in canoe in recent days and also secured the women’s kayak place ahead of the semifinals this Saturday. So, Pau Echaniz achieved another in the men’s kayak after graduation ninth in the semifinals with 95.96 seconds, with a margin of thirty-four hundred to pass the cut of the ten best that gave access to the final. It took a paddler to place in the top sixteen nations to earn that ticket and Echaniz overcame that in the semifinals led by Britain’s Joseph Clarke in 90.96 seconds.

So, with the goal achieved, Echaniz went to the final which took place early in the afternoon, where our sights were set on trying to fight for a very difficult podium. The Spaniard was the second of the ten contestants to make his descent, which he closed without touching. However, his time 96.59 secondswhich was initially enough for him to defeat the British Jonny Dickson, dropping him to a eighth place there is no option to fight for the podium. Clarke shined again on 91.32 seconds ahead of Czech Jiri Prskavec (93.26) and Moroccan Mathis Soudi (93.91), who completed the world podium. All, in a final without touches despite the problems of the Slovenian Peter Kauzer, who skipped the sixth gate and held the twenty one.

In this way, Echaniz achieved a top 10 position in the world in a discipline in which he was unable to achieve. semi-finals Your partners David Llorente. He was twenty-first among them after adding two touches to his descent, leaving him with no choice but to fight to join Echaniz in the final.

Maialen Chourraut, from a final where Jessica Fox expands her legend

The goal in the women’s K1 was to try to fight for the top positions that I couldn’t access Maialen Chourraut. The double Olympic medalist is fifteenth of the semifinals with 109.23 secondsincluding a touch but also a time loss that would have prevented him from entering the final without that touch.

The cut was marked by the Dutch Martina Wegman with 106.84 seconds and they did not enter it either Laia Sorribestwenty three with 116.05 after three touches, even the Andorran Monica Doria Vilarrubla, thirteenth with 108.25 and condemned after knocking on the door sixteen. Spain already has a guaranteed Olympic place from the previous rounds in this modality, so Maialen Chourraut leaves the World Cup with the honor of being the best Spanish, but also aware of the internal selection that is expected to decide who will live here.

Anyone who continues to expand his never-ending legend is a Jessica Fox who left his mark in the semifinals (102.13 seconds to dominate them) and who I didn’t fail in the finals either (103.60 seconds after touch). The Australian won the match against Slovak Eliska Mintalova (104.73, one touch), with Polish Klaudia Zwolinska third (105.00). In this way, Fox was declared K1 world champion, a modality in which he also won gold for patrols in this world championship with his Australian teammates leading the Spanish team. He has accumulated fifteen world goldsalthough the C1 of the 2011 patrols is not officially recognized, and its legacy remains eternal.

97+13+6 Spanish athletes have been classified for the Paris Olympic Games

-Athletics: 2 classified +13 athletes with minimum in athletics (+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)
-4 slalom canoeing (not nominal places): Luis Fernández (C1), Pau Echaniz (K1 and with it kayak cross), Klara Olazábal (C1) and Maialen Chourraut (K1 and with it 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