Carlos Garach, qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Both Spanish teams swimming just like open water facing the Paris 2024 Olympic Games They have a new member starting this Tuesday morning. Carlos Garach was achieved in the qualifying rounds Doha World Cup lower the Olympic minimum 800 freestylean event that will allow him to swim in both disciplines on French soil.

Beyond the fact that the classification for the eight-fold hectometer is tied, the open water qualifying regulations for Paris 2024 have a very good new permission for swimmers with a minimum of 800 and/or 1500 freestyle always participate in this discipline. the team to which that athlete belongs does not have a quota of two qualified subjects. So, together María de Valdés and Ángela Martínez with an Olympic place among women but no one directly classified among men, Carlos Garach will compete with that discipline in Paris. In the pool, he joins a Hugo Gonzalez which has only been fixed so far.

He has also done it with great sensation. Garach was able to lower his personal brand, which is 7:50.68 since the Rotterdam Meeting in December. will swim in 7:50.56a record that saw him finish fifteenth, fighting for a place in the distant final, but allowed him to drop the 7:51.65 orders who attended the Games.

Garach maintained a consistent pace, with splits under thirty seconds throughout the race. Only in the last part did one slip slightly, but the time advantage needed was enough to seal the minimum. In fact, the Spaniard was second in his series behind David Johnston (7:48.20).

Of course, the favorites are missing two qualifying rounds. Oh Luca de Tullio which set the speed at 7:46.52, although with Daniel Wiffen (7:46.90) and Sven Schwarz (7:46.95) very close to their times. Behind, Mykhailo Romanchuk (sixth with 7:47.20), Gregorio Paltrinieri (seventh with 7:47.38) and even Elijah Winnington who closed out the top 8 (7:47.59) advanced. Who does not enter the final is Florian Wellbrock. The German finished tenth with 7:48.17 and did not qualify due to a cut marked by the Australian.

Men’s 800 freestyle heats classification (top8; Olympic minimum 7:51.65)

1. Luca de Tullio (Italy) 7:46.52
2. Daniel Wiffen (Ireland) 7:46.90
3. Sven Schwarz (Germany) 7:46.95
4. Victor Johansson (Sweden) 7:47.04
5. Kristof Rasovszky (Hungary) 7:47.19
6. Mykhailo Romanchuk (Ukraine) 7:47.20
7. Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy) 7:47.38
8. Elijah Winnington (Australia) 7:47.59
…
10. Florian Wellbrock (Germany) 7:48.17
15. Carlos Garach (Spain) 7:50.56

193+17 Spanish athletes have been classified for the Paris Olympic Games

-Athletics: 10 classified +13 athletes with a minimum of total athletics events in 2023 that must be confirmed in 2024
2 direct selections to meet World Athletics and RFEA criteria:
-Álvaro Martín (20 km walk)
-María Pérez (20 km walk)
6 non-nominally safe places in the marathon earned by:
-Tariku Novales (2:05:48), Ayad Lamdassem (2:07:37) and Yago Rojo (2:07:47) took the men’s spots
-Majida Maayouf (2:21:27; she did 2:21:01 with Moroccan nationality), Fatima Ouhaddou (2:25:30) and Laura Luengo (2:25:35) got places of women
2 athletes with a World Athletics minimum in 2024 (not nominal places due to the difficult option of more teammates making the minimums and exceeding the quota)
-Jordan Díaz (triple jump)
-Marta Garcia (5000)
13 athletes with 14 other World Athletics minimums in 2023, although in the absence of ratifying them of competitiveness minimums in 2024
*In all events except the marathon, hybrid system of minimums (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 way, although It is expected that World Athletics will end up guaranteeing a place to all athletes with a minimum, with a quota of three per country and event. These are the Spaniards with the lowest World Athletics Olympic, although the RFEA will require them to be certified in 2024 with a slightly less harsh score:
-Adrián Ben (800 meters, exempt from the minimum competitiveness requirement), Mohamed Attaoui (800 meters), Saúl Ordóñez (800 meters)
-Mario García Romo (1500 meters, exempt from the minimum competitiveness requirement), Adrián Ben (1500 meters), Adel Mechaal (1500 meters)
-Mohamed Katir (5000 meters, exempt from minimum competitiveness*), Thierry Ndikumwenayo (5000 meters)
-Víctor Ruiz (3000 obstacles)
-Diego García Carrera (20 km walk) and Luis Alberto Amezcua (20 km walk)
-Esther Guerrero (1500 meters) and Marta Pérez (1500 meters)
-Irene Sánchez-Escribano (3000 obstacles)
* Temporarily suspended
-12 basketball: women’s group
-2 boxing: José Quiles (-57 kg), Laura Fuertes (-50 kg)
-5 road cycling: Non-nominal places for Pello Bilbao, Mikel Landa and Juan Ayuso (three in online testing, one of them in time trial); Mavi García and Ane Santesteban (two in online testing, one of them in time trial). The names of the most decisive cyclists in taking places are listed.
-18 football: group of men
-7 artistic gymnastics: Joel Plata, Ray Zapata, Nicolau Mir, Thierno Diallo, Adrià Vera and Néstor Abad (team, made up of six gymnasts who achieved the place, although only five will be in Paris. Also individual); Alba Petisco and Ana Pérez (both individuals)
-7 rhythmic gymnastics: Ana Arnau, Inés Bergua, Mireia Martínez, Patricia Pérez, Valeria Márquez and Salma Solaun (group, made up of six gymnasts who achieved the place, although only five could enter the team); Polina Berezina (individual) and Alba Bautista (individual)
-8 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 the team in Paris can only be composed of three); 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)
*2 non-nominal places for Carlos Díaz and Esteban Benítez in the complete competition, but subject to their participation in a long and short CCI4 or in a CCI5 in 2024.
-32 field hockey: Men’s team and women’s team
-2+4 swimming: Hugo González (100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 medley) and Carlos Garach (800 freestyle). Placed by relays for Luis Domínguez, Sergio de Celis, Mario Mollà and César Castro in the 4×100 freestyle, although two individual minimums are needed to make it in Paris.
-3 open water swims (1 double may swim): María de Valdés (10 km), Ángela Martínez (10 km) and Carlos Garach (10 km)
-8 artistic swimming: Cristina Arámbula, Berta Ferreras, Marina García Polo, Meritxell Mas, Alisa Ozhogina, Paula Ramírez, Sara Saldaña, Meritxell Ferré, Lilou Lluis, Blanca Toledano and Iris Tió (team, but with only eight calls); Iris Tió and Alisa Ozhogina (duo)
-1 modern pentathlon: Laura Heredia
-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 oars: Jaime Canalejo and Javier García (M2-); Caetano Horta and Dennis Carracedo (LM2x); Rodrigo Conde and Aleix García (M2x); Aina Cid and Esther Briz (W2-)
-3 jumps: Ana Carvajal (ten meter platform); Nicolás García Boissier and Adrián Abadía (synchronized on the three-meter springboard)
-3 taekwondo: Adriana Cerezo (-49 kg), Adrian Vicente (-58 kg) and Javier Pérez Polo (-68 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: Antonio Serrat and Miriam Casillas (nominal; mixed and individual relay); Roberto Sánchez and Noelia Juan (not nominal; mixed relay and it includes individual events. The names of the best in the ranking are entered when the relay place becomes mathematical)
-13 candles: Nominal places for Diego Botín and Florian Trittel (49er), Nacho Baltasar (iQFoil), Támara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló (49er FX), Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman (470 mixed), Tara Pacheco and Andrés Barrio (Nacra 17) and Gisela Pulido (Kite Formula). Non-nominal places in the absence of internal selection of Pilar Lamadrid (iQFoil), Joaquín Blanco (ILCA 7) and Ana Moncada (ILCA 6). In one of the two contested ILCA 7 internal selection regattas, Joel Rodríguez was the best Spaniard.
-26 water polo: Women’s team and men’s team