Meet the Albicelestes who already have a guaranteed place in the biggest event in world sport, from July 23 to August 8 in Japan.
The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, which could not be held last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, are scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 8 and the Argentine delegation already has a good number of confirmed athletes, waiting for someone else to join the different pre-Olympic or ranking.
THE ARGENTINE DELEGATION FOR THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES
Open waters: Cecilia Biagioli
Basketball: Men’s national team (12 players).
Rafting: Agustín Vernice (K1 1000), Lucas Rossi (K1), Rubén Rézola (K1 200) and Brenda Rojas (K1 200).
Boxing: Mirco Cuellar, Ramón Quiroga, Francisco Verón and Leonela Sánchez.
Cycling: Eduardo Sepúlveda (route), Exequiel Torres (BMX) and Sofía Gómez Villafañe in Women’s Mountain Bike (MTB).
Equestrian: José María Larocca (individual jump) and the Argentine team (Larocca and two other members).
Fencing: Belén Pérez Maurice (Sand).
Football: Men’s selection (18).
Artistic gymnastics: Martina Dominici.
Golf: Emiliano Grillo.
Handball: The Gladiators (14)
Field hockey: Los Leones (16) and Las Leonas (16).
Judo: Paula Pareto and Emmanuel Lucenti
Struggle: Agustín Destribats
Marathon: Joaquín Arbe, Eulalio Muñoz and Marcela Gómez.
Swimming: Delfina Pignatiello (400m, 800m and 1,500m freestyle), Santiago Grassi (100m butterfly), Julia Sebastián (100m and 200m breaststroke).
Modern pentathlon: Sergio Alí Villamayor.
Remo: Milka Kraljev and Evelyn Silvestro (lightweight double pair)
Rugby 7: The Pumas (12).
Surf: Leandro Usuna.
Taekwondo: Lucas Guzmán.
Tennis: Nadia Podoroska (female singles), Diego Schwartzman (male single) and Horacio Zeballos (doubles, with Andrés Molteni).
Table tennis: Horacio Cifuentes and Gastón Alto.
Threw: Fernanda Russo (10m air rifle), Alexis Eberhardt (50m three position rifle), Melisa Gil (Skeet) and Federico Gil (Skeet).
Triathlon: Romina Biagioli.
Sailing: Sol Branz and Victoria Travascio (49er FX), Facundo Olezza (Finn), Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza (Nacra 17), Francisco Guaragna (Standard Laser), Lucía Falasca (Radial Laser), Belén Tavella and Lourdes Hartkopf (470), Celia Tejerina (RS: X) and Francisco Saubidet (RS: X).
Volley: Male (12) and female (12) national team.
THE NEXT SEATS IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES THAT ARGENTINA CAN ACHIEVE
On Athletics, Germán Chiaraviglio Pole vault and Belén Cassetta in 3000 hurdles are well on their way up the rankings in search of their place in Tokyo. What’s more, Federico Bruno (1500m), Joaquin Gómez (hammer), Maximiliano Diaz (triple jump) and Florence Borelli (5000m) are other Argentines looking for points to reach the Olympic Games.
El beach volleyball He also hopes to reach Tokyo through the Continental Cup: Julián Azaad-Nicolás Capogrosso and Ana Gallay-Fernanda Pereyra They are the number one couples in Argentina. There will be a quota for each branch.
On the other hand, Florencia Leithold -recurve bow of archery– has a demanding test in the Paris Pre-Olympic and next to her is Damián Jaravilla.
Finally, the discipline that could give Argentine athletes the last tickets on the plane to Tokyo is tennis: the ATP and WTA rankings from the beginning of June define the names chosen.
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