Official: the Spanish swimming team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been determined

The completion of Palma de Mallorca Spanish Open has sealed the composition of the Spanish swimming team for Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Unlike other times, this time we will not wait for the publication in the coming days of the Olympic list because the members of the team that will attend the Games and have been honored as such after finishing the selective championship are already clear.

sixteen swimmers the nationals will be in Paris in over a month to compete in the pool events, once World Aquatics announced a few months ago that the quota with a minimum of B was covered. It seems difficult, therefore, for swimmers like Jessica Vall, two hundred away from the minimum 200 breaststroke, to join the team.

It consists of nine boys and seven girls. They are divided among four participants in individual events, three who will combine relays and individual events and another nine called for relay events.

This final distribution may undergo some changes as there are only a few doubts left to be resolved. The first is the truth see if Sergio de Celisclassified in the 4×100 free relay and 4×100 medley relay, will also participate in some 100 free where it has an Olympic minimum, although not in an elite championship. The other unknown is known if Emma Carrasco is double the presence in 400 styles after you get the ticket in 200 styles, because you also have registration time in that modality. These are two issues that seem more likely and will not affect the composition of the national team too much. The third, the possible registration of Carlos Garach in 400 freewhere it has the lowest B.

At the head of the selection will be Hugo Gonzalezin his third Olympic event and where he arrived as the current world champion of 200 backstroke. Hugo will participate in that test, at 100 backstrokesin 200 styles and at the convenience of 4×100 styles. Other men’s individual qualifiers are making their Games debuts: Carlos Garach (800 free, 1500 free, 4×100 free and 10 km in open water with María de Valdés and Ángela Martínez, already referring to other swimming disciplines; it remains to be seen if she will swim in the 400 free), Mario Mollá (100 butterfly, 4×100 freestyle and 4×100 medley) and Arbidel González (200 butterflies).

This work of seniority in a feminine key will fall into Africa Zamorano, also in his third Olympic Games, where he will participate in the 200 backstroke. Two debutants participated in individual events as Carmen Weiler (100 backstroke and 200 backstroke) and Emma Carrasco (200 styles, waiting to see what happens in the long test of four swims).

The nine were summoned for testing or evaluation relays is debutantes. Recognition should be recognized in this section for the situation of a Caesar Castro who chased the Olympic dream like no other and who will finally embrace it after a very serious shoulder injury kept him out of Rio 2016 when he qualified. César recovered, came back and saw how a few hundred left him in Tokyo in the 200 freestyle, an event in which he was also close to qualifying for Paris. However, he will compete in the 4×100 free and 4×200 free relays in Paris.

In those relays there will be nine other Spanish Olympic Games debutants. They will join César and Mollá in the 4×100 freestyle Sergio de Celis and Luis Domínguez. Castro, Domínguez, Garach and Ferran Julia They will form a 4×200 freestyle, while they are Hugo in the back, Carlos Coll in the breaststroke, Mollá in the butterfly and De Celis in the crawl are the swimmers in the 4×100 medley.

Therefore, Paris will be the first Olympic event for four women in the 4×200 freestyle. María Daza, Alba Herrero, Paula Juste and Ainhoa ​​​​Campabadal They completed the Spanish team for the Olympic Games in Paris.

The Spanish team of 16 swimmers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

-Hugo González (Canoe; 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 200 style and 4×100 style)
-Carlos Garach (Churriana; 800 free, 1500 free and 4×200 free; option 400 free)
-Mario Mollá (Terrassa; 100 butterfly, 4×100 free and 4×100 style)
-Arbidel González (CN Barcelona; 200 butterfly)
-Carmen Weiler (Canoe; 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke)
-Africa Zamorano (Sant Andreu; 200 backstroke)
-Emma Carrasco (Sant Andreu; 200 styles; option of 400 styles)
-Sergio de Celis (Sabadell; 4×100 free and 4×100 styles)
-César Castro (Terrassa; 4×100 free and 4×200 free)
-Luis Domínguez (El Olivar; 4×100 free and 4×200 free)
-Ferran Julià (Sabadell; 4×200 free)
-Carles Coll (Sabadell; 4×100 freestyle)
-María Daza (Canoe; 4×200 free)
-Alba Herrero (Elche Tennis; 4×200 free)
-Paula Juste (Lleida; 4×200 free)
-Ainhoa​​​​Campabadal (Sant Andreu; 4×200 free)