The Cádiz province will have representation in the next Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The sport of Cadiz will have the representation of Jose Antonio Garcia Mena (Equestrian) and Adrian Gavira Collado (Voley Pllaya)
For its part, Andalusia will have a good representation in many forms of Tokyo 2020. Specifically, Andalusia will have places in athletics (8), handball (3), cycling (1), football (1), golf (1), weightlifting (1), horse riding (3), hockey (1), judo (1), swimming (2), water polo (1), canoeing (2), rowing (2), tennis (2), table tennis (1) , Olympic shooting (1), sailing (1) and beach volleyball (1)
In total, 33 athletes from Andalusia, 17 men and 16 women, will give their all for the gold in the most anticipated Olympic Games in history, which, unfortunately, will not have an audience after the Japanese government decided to activate the state of alarm during next month.
Catalonia, Madrid and Andalusia, Communities with the most representation
In this sense, Catalonia It is the autonomous community with the most athletes in Tokyo 2021 and has 84 classified. 1 in 4 Spanish representatives comes from Catalonia.
Barcelona It is also the province with the highest number of classified women. 40 women will fight for gold in their respective disciplines and categories. The number of classified men from Barcelona is 33.
The Madrid’s community it is second in this classification, with 38 Olympians, although in this case the figure for female representation falls to 15 women.
For its part, Andalusia is the third most Olympic Spanish community with 33 athletes, 16 of them women.
Valencian Community (23), Galicia (18), Basque Country (16), Canary Islands (13) or Castilla y León (12) are also autonomous regions with at least 10 athletes classified to the games.
321 Spanish athletes will go for gold
Catalonia and Andalusia they tie in the number of athletes classified for athletics events, with 8 each. Castilla y León (7), Valencian Community (6) and Madrid Community (6) follow them in one of the most iconic disciplines of the games.
The athletes of CataloniaIn fact, they will lead a good part of the Spanish representations in many of the disciplines: basketball, handball, hockey, artistic gymnastics, football, swimming, water polo …
Notably Andalusia It is the largest reference of riders for equestrian events, since 3 of the 5 classified are Andalusian. Among which stands out the man from Cádiz José Antonio García Mena.
The Basque Country will take 4 cyclists to the games in Tokyo, the community with the highest number of qualifiers in this sport. Something similar happens with Galicia and canoeing, since 4 of the 15 classified Spanish canoeists are Galicians.
From Canary Islands 4 have been classified for the sailing events, which shows how ideal the archipelago is for practicing this sport. The Madrid’s community It is the second community that has more athletes, although in numbers it will only lead the taekwondo events, with 3 athletes from Madrid.
Castile and Leon it will take 2 judocas to the Olympics and it is the community with the largest number of athletes for this discipline. 2 of the 4 Spanish beach volleyball athletes are from the Valencian Community.
Finally, foreign athletes nationalized in Spain stand out especially in boxing and tennis, with 2 classified in each of the tests.
In any case, these figures are nothing more than a scale to measure the popularity of the sport and of each discipline in the territories. What is really important is the work of the individual or of each of the teams and the promotion of competition, sportsmanship and inclusion through sport.
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