Saavedra advanced to the rifle final on a day with byes in several sports

The Spanish morning session at Paris 2024 Paralympic Games In addition to Sara Martínez’s silver and the finals sealed in the pool, led by Toni Ponce, it left the participation of several other Spaniards. Shooting is the most prominent, with a presence also in rowing and the 100 meters of athletics.

The rest of the day fight for the shooting medals against Juan Saavedra. He was second in the mixed prone rifle qualification in the R3 category. She did it with 637.3 points, very close to Slovak Veronika Vadovicova, leader with 637.8. Ukrainian Iryna Shcehetnik finished with 636.9 points and will also be in contention for the medals aiming to equal the early morning.

Whoever did not advance to his end became Fernando Michelena. He finished eighteenth in the ten-meter mixed rifle prone, for the R5 class. With 633.5 points, he is far from the top 8 closed by Portuguese Margarida Lapa (636.4) and led by Serbian Dragan Ristic (638.4).

It also ended Spanish involvement in the rowing with two participations in the B finals The first of them was the single sculls in the PR1 class. Javier Garcia He finished second in his series, with a 9:55.99 and was edged out by German Marcus Klemp (9:47.43). In this way he finished in eighth position overall.

He did not reach the top 8 in Spain with four mixed helmsmen. Josefa Benítez, Daniel Díaz, Saúl Peña, Verónica Rodríguez and Leonor García They were third in the B final with 7:43.10, behind China (7:25.01) and Brazil (7:31.82). Thus they finished ninth.

He also competed in athletics Winston Ikhiuwu. He did so in the 100 meters T13, a modality in which he finished seventh in his series and twelfth overall in the qualifying round to stay in the final.