Spain is playing for five Olympic spots in the Bahamas Relay World Cup

Spain, with 25 athletes (13 women and 12 men), including eight absolute national record holders, is looking to Nassau World Relay Championships (Bahamas) has qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris with its five teams, an event that if it happens will be historic.

Spain will face the World Relay Championships in Nassau with optimism, a city that has already hosted the first three editions (2014, 2015 and 2017) of this international competition that will reach its sixth edition.

The entire team spent a long time preparing for several years within National Relief Plan for major international competitions where he has become particularly popular in recent times. For these Nassau World Cups, they held concentrations in Stellenbosch (South Africa) in December 2023, in Tenerife in January 2024 and the last one in Malaga in the middle of last March.

Spain aims to qualify the five teams that will compete for the Olympic Games in Paris. The eight teams that reach the final in each of the events qualify directly for Paris. The remaining six countries, up to a total of fourteen classifieds per event, will come from the first two classifieds in each repechage series held on the second day of competition.

He 4×100 women It consists of four team members who broke Spain’s record in 2022 at the World Championships in Oregon with 42.58: Sonia Molina-Prados, Jaël-Sakura Bestué, Paula Sevilla and María Isabel Pérez. They include the young Alba Borrero, after her good indoor season, and another athlete who has been strong like Paula García, with a personal best of 11.47 in 2023.

He men’s short relay It is a mixture of experience and youth and is supported by the 38.64 achieved in 2023 in Madrid – 18 hundredths of a second behind the Spanish record -, which is the best score of a Spanish quartet in our country. Three of those sides who ran in the green Vallehermoso tartan were the current Spanish absolute champions Sergio López, Arnau Monné and Pablo Montalvo, both part of the team that qualified fourth in the 2023 European Championship for national teams in Chórzow (Poland).

The team is completed by a veteran like Daniel Rodríguez, who in 2022 is Ibero-American champion in La Nucía in the short relay, and the 21-year-old Guillem Crespí, overall runner-up in Spain in the 60 meters this year season.

He men’s long relay, the so-called ‘Spanish Beatles’, is with a team that includes three of those who broke the Spanish 4x400m record (3:00.54) in the European final in Munich two years ago where they were fourth: Óscar Husillos ( 44.73) , Lucas Búa (45.25) and Iñaki Cañal (45.27). They include Manuel Guijarro (45.47), Bernat Erta (45.69), Julio Arenas (45.95) and David García Zurita (46.08), the youngest of all who became the U18 European champion two years ago in Jerusalem.

He 4×400 women is rising This is confirmed by the recent results and marks of the Spanish sprinters traveling to Nassau, who left a mark of 3:27.76, only 19 hundredths behind Spain’s record at the last European Championship. They are Eva Santidrián (52.39), Berta Segura (52.50), Laura Bueno (51.93), Carmen Avilés (52.61), Herminia Parra (52.61), Laura Bou (52.91) and Blanca Hervás (53.74 and 53.25 ST), all of them in great form after completing a great indoor season.

The last relay is 4×400 mixedwho were there three years ago at the Tokyo Olympic Games, where they achieved the current Spanish record of 3:13.29 and this time will fight again to attend Paris again.

This relay consists of Julio Arenas, who has already competed in the 2021 World Relay Championships, David García Zurita, Blanca Hervás, Berta Segura, Carmen Avilés and Iñaki Cañal, the last two present in the quartet that competed last year in Chórzow at the European Championship for national teams.