Nadia Erostarbe secured the first Spanish Olympic place in the history of surfing

The leap year 2024 still has a milestone reserved for the Spanish Olympics on February 29. For the first time in history, national surfing will be represented at the Olympic Games. Is to Paris 2024. Or, rather, to Tahitishabby sub-headquarters of the French capital for this discipline.

Tokyo 2021 premiered without a Spanish presence, there will be one this time because Nadia Erostarbe, who was one step away from the Japanese event, retaliated this Thursday at the World Surfing Games. taking place in Puerto Rico. The Spanish team played a big role in them and the first reward came in the form of the first Olympic medal in history in this sport for the national delegation.

It is safe for Spain, but the fact that two other Spaniards are still fighting for passports in Paris has not been made nominal, at the moment, for Erostarbe, because, in case the three places are not achieved for Through the team classification, only two individuals can be obtained per country. However, Erostarbe has everything in mind to make sure that place is yours too.

In a championship full of rounds, both directly and through repechages, eight female and six male areas is placed directly into the game. Theirs join another additional area by gender for the country that finished first in group classification. One of those direct tickets has already been secured Erostarbe, who advanced this Thursday to the top 12 of the World Cup, but four of those present in that round already have the first place for the Games and, therefore, does not count towards the Olympic race.

There are six direct qualifiers among the girls for the main draw before the final. In addition, there are ten play-offs before that final. Erostarbe made it to the fifth of six straight rounds, which included eight surfers. These eight will be joined by four from the play-offs to make up the final top 12. However, of that total of twelve, Australian Sally Fitzgibbons, Brazilian Tatiana Weston Webb, American Caroline Marks and French Johanne Defay has secured an Olympic ticket, so the eight remaining members of the top 12 have secured their presence at the Games. .

Erostarbe leads the great competition of the Spanish team, which continues with its six surviving members in search of more Olympic passports. In women, Janire González and Lucía Machado They are sixth in ten repechages before the final. In men, Andy Criere He is fifth in seven rounds before the final, among the twelve best in the main draw and has a second option for the play-offs. On the other side of the painting, Kai Odriozola and Yago Domínguez They are sixth out of twelve repechages before qualifying for the final.

A long and complicated path, but in search of more fruit after the World Cup which, whatever happens, is already historic for Spanish surfing. Surfing debuted at the Tokyo Games and did so without national representation. So, Gonzalo Gutiérrez, absent from this World Cup, and Nadia Erostarbe herself remained as reserves to participate in the Japanese event. Erostarbe has already made history for Spanish surfing.

215+29 Spanish athletes have been classified for the Paris Olympic Games

-Athletics: 14 classified +11 athletes with minimum World Athletics in global athletics events in 2023 that should confirm them in 2024 +3 athletes with minimum RFEA in 2024 expected to be worth entering the ranking
14 CLASSIFIED
8 direct and nominal selections to meet World Athletics and RFEA criteria:
-Ibrahim Chakir and Tariku Novales (marathon)
-Álvaro Martín and Paul McGrath (20 km walk)
-Ester Navarrete and Majida Mayouf (marathon)
-María Pérez and Cristina Montesinos (20 km walk)

2 non-nominally safe places in the marathon:
-Ayad Lamdassem (2:07:37) is the Spaniard without a permanent position with the lowest minimum.
-Meritxell Soler (2:24:57) is the Spaniard without a permanent position with the lowest minimum.

4+2 athletes with minimum World Athletics in 2024 (not nominal places, but difficult option for more teammates to make minimums and exceed the quota so that these athletes are left without places )
-Jordan Díaz (triple jump)
-Diego García Carrera and Luis Alberto Amezcua (20 km walk, only one place available)
-Marta Garcia (5000)
-Laura García-Caro and Raquel González (20 km walk, only one place available)

11 MINIMA TO BE EXPERIENCED BY 2024
11 athletes with 12 other minimum World Athletics in 2023, although in the absence of securing them a minimum competitiveness in 2024
*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 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)
-Esther Guerrero (1500 meters) and Marta Pérez (1500 meters)
-Irene Sánchez-Escribano (3000 obstacles)
* Temporarily suspended

3 WITH MINIMUM RFEA AWAITING RANKINGS
3 athletes with minimum RFEA in 2024 considered used to enter through ranking
– Aaron Las Heras (5000)
-Ana Peleteiro (triple jump)
-Belén Toimil (shot put)
*Paula Juárez also achieved this (20 km walk), but the quota of three classifieds per test will be exceeded

-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). Listed are the names of the most decisive cyclists in taking places.
-36 football: Men’s team and women’s team
-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 were achieved between four riders but in Paris there were 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
-3 fixed + 8 additional fixed + 5 possible confirmed swims: Pre-selection of Hugo González (100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 medley), Carlos Garach (800 freestyle) and Mario Mollá (100 butterfly). Men’s 4×100 freestyle relay (Luis Domínguez, Sergio de Celis, Mario Mollà and César Castro, with Carles Coll), men’s 4×200 freestyle (Luis Domínguez, César Castro, Sergio de Celis and Carlos Quijada) and men’s 4×200 Gonzále , Carles Coll are classified , Mario Mollá and Sergio de Celis). Place in the women’s 4×200 freestyle for Ainhoa ​​​​​​Campabadal, Alba Herrero, Paula Juste and Carla Carrón. With the individual minimums from Hugo, Mollá and De Celis, eight additional swimmers can be taken (if starting with the swimmers who got places, although they are not nominal, Domínguez, Castro, Quijada, Coll , Campabadal, Herrero , Juste and Carrón ).
-Sergio de Celis (100 freestyle), Carlos Garach (1500 freestyle), Arbidel González (200 butterfly), Carmen Weiler (100 backstroke), África Zamorano (200 backstroke) and Emma Carrasco (400 medley) meet the World standard Aquatics but not with RFENs.

-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)
-1 surf: Nadia Erostarbe
-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)
-2+2 triathlon: Nominal places for Antonio Serrat and Miriam Casillas (both individual and mixed relay). FETRI assumes that the replacement position has been completed in the non-nominal positions for Roberto Sánchez and Noelia Juan, but the truth is that it has not been classified.
-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 ILCA 7 internal selection regattas contested, Joel Rodríguez was the best Spaniard. In one of the two iQFoil internal selective regattas contested, Pilar Lamadrid was the best Spanish.
-26 water polo: Women’s team and men’s team