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In Tokyo 2020, Andalusia broke the historical record for Olympic participation with 39 athletes, one more than in Barcelona’92
MADRID, 29 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Fundación Andalucía Olímpica (FAO), the entity that supports Olympic and Paralympic sports in Andalusia founded by the Junta and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), turns 25 this Friday in which it has distributed 4,604 scholarships to help Andalusian athletes in their preparation for the Games.
The Fundación Andalucía Olímpica was the first entity created in Spain to specifically support Olympic and Paralympic sport in its territory, and since 1998 it has allocated 10.57 million euros and awarded 4,604 scholarships and prizes to athletes, coaches and clubs. These grants have made it possible, among other achievements, for Andalusian sport to have added, from 2000 to the present, a greater number of athletes participating in the Olympic and Paralympic Games than in the previous hundred years.
In the last four years, the budget and aid to Andalusian Olympic and Paralympic athletes has quadrupled. In 2022, with a budget of 330,000 euros, 13 percent more than in 2021 and 60 percent more than in 2018, the Olympic Andalusia Plan will benefit athletes, coaches and clubs with the aim of increasing Andalusian participation at the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024.
The purpose is to improve the results obtained in Tokyo 2020, where Andalusia broke its historical record of Olympic participation with 39 representative athletes, surpassing the 38 of Barcelona’92.
The Andalusian Olympic Plan has been significant in all these years as a pool of sports talent, having supported in its beginnings athletes such as Fátima Gálvez, Alfonso Cabello, Carolina Marín, Marina Alabau, Carmen Herrera, David Valero, Regino Hernández, Blanca Manchón, Álvaro Valera or José Manuel Ruiz, among others, all of them winners of medals in the Games or World Cups.
