Laura Cabanes joins the Spanish Olympic team for the Paris Games!!

Laura Cabanes are having a heady European Junior Championships this week in Vilnius. But the best news for him this Saturday is that he might not be new silver in the 200 butterflya medal bound to bronze conquered in 400 style days ago

As was the case with Jessica Vall, the RFEN requested her participation in the Paris Olympic Games after her minimum B of 200 butterfly in the past Tomorrow. It’s been a few days, but this Saturday the response came from World Aquatics and it was positive: The girl is going to the French event.

Cabanas swim in the Spanish Open in Palma de Mallorca in 2:09.03a grade that left him with the lowest B and one step away from 2:08.47 requested by the international organization as a minimum of A. This leaves Laura outside the absolute cut-off mark for access to Paris, waiting to see if there are any free places to be filled by possible times -access, because no other Spanish swimmer had a minimum A in this test.

As in Jessica’s case, RFEN took steps to leave that possibility open to Laura. Places for the lowest B are given based on the combined rank of all of them, sorted by FINE score. In that classification, Jessica placed sixth in the 200 breaststroke; Laura’s in the 200 butterfly, fifteenth. Cabanes is also the best swimmer without a direct minimum in his discipline.

In this way, the girl from Canoe lived a dream day this Saturday after confirming that her registration is worth its weight in gold. Not only did he increase his brilliant European junior, but he At eighteen years old, he will compete in a major full competition for the first time. and it will be the Olympic Games of them all. It will be the perfect end to a period of hard work and great development for him, being in the front line of the full national elite, as one of the great references of the Junior European Championship and as a debutant in an event in five rings.

Its inclusion in the Games, moreover, continues to raise a Spanish Olympic team for Paris that will be numerous. After sixteen direct qualifiers, it’s down to just eighteen for the pool, a roster that doubles the nine that qualified for the Tokyo 2021 Games. Joining them in open water are María de Valdés and Ángela Martínez, with Carlos Garach doubling in both disciplines.

The Spanish team of 18 swimmers in the pool 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)
-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)
-Jessica Vall (Sant Andreu; 200 breaststroke)
-Laura Cabanes (Canoe; 200 butterfly)
-Emma Carrasco (Sant Andreu; 200 style and 400 style)
-Sergio de Celis (Sabadell; 100 free, 4×100 free and 4×100 freestyle)
-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)