This Wednesday The COE has officially announced that the Spanish flag bearers at the Paris Games will be the Olympic sailing champion Támara Echegoyen (39 years old) and the Olympic canoeing champion as well Marcus Cooper Walz (29 years old).
Echegoyen and Cooper Walz They will take the baton from swimmer Mireia Belmonte and canoeist Saúl Craviottowho led the Spanish Team in Tokyo 2020, in the first edition of the Games where each country has two flag bearers instead of one.
Previously, in the most recent Games, the Spanish flag bearers were the tennis players Rafa Nadal (Rio de Janeiro 2016)the basketball player Pau Gasol (London 2012)the canoeist David Cal (Beijing 2008)the judoka Isabel Fernández (Athens 2004)the water polo player Manel Estiarte (Sydney 2000)the sailor Luis Doreste (Atlanta’96) and the prince then Felipe de Borbón (Barcelona’92).
The first bearer of the Spanish flag in history wasin Antwerp (Belgium) 1920, the athlete Jose Garcia Lorenzanawhich was also followed by the athlete Felix Mendizábal in Paris 1928.
Spanish Olympic flag bearers
Antwerp 1920: José García Lorenzana
Paris 1924: Félix Mendizábal (athletics)
Amsterdam 1928: Diego Ordóñez (athletics)
London 1948: Fabián Vicente del Valle (boxing)
Helsinki in 1952: Luis Omedes (rowing)
Rome 1960: Jaime Belenguer (gymnastics)
Tokyo 1964: Eduardo Dualde (hockey)
Mexico in 1968: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (sailing)
Munich 1972: Francisco Fernández Ochoa (ski)
Montreal in 1976: Enrique Rodríguez Cal (boxing)
Moscow 1980: Herminio Menendez (canoeing)
Los Angeles 1984: Alejandro Abascal (sailing)
Seoul in 1988: Cristina de Borbón (candle)
Barcelona 1992: Felipe de Borbón (sailing)
Atlanta 1996: Luis Doreste (sailing)
Sydney 2000: Manuel Estiarte (water polo)
Athens 2004: Isabel Fernández (judo)
Beijing 2008: David Cal (canoeing)
London 2012: Pau Gasol (basketball)
Rio 2016: Rafa Nadal (tennis)
Tokyo 2020: Saúl Craviotto (canoeing) and Mireia Belmonte (swimming)
TheParis 2024): Támara Echegoyen (sailing) and Marcus Cooper (canoeing)
Source: La Verdad
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