The paddlers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Sprint will decide on Verdido in the national selective

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The Spanish Olympic sprint will decide its places for Paris 2024 Games in the next three days of the competition to be held on April 10, 11 and 12 at Pontillón de Castro reservoir in Verdido, Pontevedra. They will have tests where the names of the athletes who will put their names in the boats that are already classified for the event in the coming summer will be confirmed.

It should be noted that Spain already has eight out of 10 possible boats qualified for the Games. In this way, our country already has an Olympic ticket in the K2, K4 and C2 500 categories, including the K1 1000 for men, and the K4, K1 and C2 500, including the C1 200 for women; The men’s C1 1000 and the women’s K2 500 can be won at the next World Cup in Szeged (Hungary), in the second week of May.

What they will play Verduced the Spanish paddlers are the work carried out in the last three years, some more than important tests because on Friday at the last minute the composition of the Spanish Olympic canoeing team will be known, almost in its entirety, then last week it was known the four name that will compete for medals in the Olympic Slalom.

Tests begin on Wednesday, April 10 at 09:00, with the finals in the men’s and women’s C2 500. That’s where the pair form Antía Jácome and Maria Corbera had to show their favoritism by measuring against the boats of Antía Otero and Maria dels Angels Morenoh Viktoriia Yarchevska and Elena Gómez-Millan. The start of the men’s C2 500 was probably one of the most competitive of the day since the world champions in 2022 and bronze in 2023, Cayetano Garcia and Pablo Martinezwill suffer against ships full of talent like those formed by Diego Domínguez and Joan Antoni Moreno, Manuel Fontan and Adrián Sieiro, Noel Domínguez and Pablo Graña, Pablo Crespo and Martín Jácome or Pedro Torrado and David Barreiro.

Then, on the water, it will be the turn of the K4 finals, where we will see Craviotto, Arévalo, Cooper and Germade and among the women the boat of Fernández, Ouzande, Garcíua and Portela.

The following day, Thursday, April 11, two rounds of semifinals will be held in the men’s C1 1000 category, with only the top four making it to the final. In the men’s K1 1000, there will be three semifinals, with the top three in each of them advancing to the final. And the same system will be used in the women’s K1 500 and C1 200.

On Friday, April 12, the finals of the women’s C1 200 and the men’s and women’s K2 500 will be held, which will conclude the Olympic selection.

The program also has other tests for national selection and the Junior and Under 23 teams. Those who enter their respective teams are those who compete in various international tests as well as European and world championships (non-Olympic disciplines).

The entire event will be broadcast live by streaming the Royal Spanish Canoeing Federation on its RFEP TV channel on YouTube.

Source: La Verdad

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