The Spanish Olympic Slalom at Paris 2024 begins to be decided this weekend in La Seu d’Urgell

Less than four months remain before the Olympic cauldron is lit. Paris and there are several sports left to determine the athletes who will compete in the French capital. One of them is canoeing, which in the next three weeks will call the boats that have been classified for the Games, both in Slalom and Sprint.

Olympic Slalom paddlers will be the first to play for tickets to the Paris event and the first stop to meet our Olympic representatives will take place on the track. La Seu d’Urgell. We must remember that our country has already achieved the four places that are being contested for 2023 London World Championships in Lee Valley (C1 and K1, both men and women).

Registration for ‘Olympic Trials’ It consists of 49 senior paddlers in K1 (34 men and 15 women) and 27 seniors in C1 (15 men and 12 women), of which three of the four paddlers who have already attended the Tokyo 2020 event are: Maialen Chourraut, Nuria Vilarrubla and David Llorente. But the best national numbers like See Lazkano, Laia Sorribes, Klara Olazabal, Leire Goñi, Ainhoa​​​​​​Lameiro, Miquel Travé, Pau Echaniz, Manuel Ochoa, Luis Fernández or Daniel Pérez. The names that in 10 days will know their future for the international season, which will also be important for the national team. There is a big loss in these two quotes, that of Olatz Arreguito miss a good portion of the season with a shoulder injury.

The events of the Spanish Cup in this second edition are Friday and Saturday, leaving the Kayak Cross competition for Sunday, March 31, where 122 paddlers have registered, of which 51 are in the senior category (34 men and 17 female).