Elia Canales and Pablo Acha, Spanish Olympians in archery at the Paris Games

He Spanish archery join the list of sports with classification and designation processes fully completed for Paris 2024 Olympic Games. RFETA, the federative body of this modality, announced this Tuesday the names of the two Spanish representatives in the Olympic event.

They will be Elia Canales and Pablo Acha, with a ticket to compete in recurve bow competitions in individual and mixed team modalities. The call was generated as a result of federative designation after observing the performance of the Spanish archers in the last Pre-Olympic, where Spain could not achieve the team places, and in the last World Cup.

The assignment of Channels, key to securing an Olympic place during the European Games just a year ago. In them he was proclaimed European champion along with Miguel Alvariño and in the last twelve months he has been the most outstanding Spaniard in terms of results. Their runner-up finish in Europe was proof of that.

The man’s decision is much more complicated. RFETA has finally decided on the position for Pablo Achabronze at the European Games last summer and is one of the mainstays of the national team.

Alvariñoarchitect of the success of the square and leader for years of Spanish archery, announced his mental health vacation after a long battle to be included in the Games. He was left out of Tokyo after repeating the selector and, after getting the place for Paris, he decided to keep that aspect. With him out of competition, Andrés Temiño He was particularly outstanding this year, where he won gold at the World Cup at an individual level.

In this way, both Acha and Canales will live up to their first Olympic experience in Paris. They replace Daniel Castro and Inés de Velasco, who represented Spain in Tokyo 2021.