The athlete from Lugo starts tomorrow her participation in the World Paralympic Athletics
07 jul 2023 . Updated at 10:49 a.m.
space go to World Paralympic Athletics of Paris (July 8-17), just one year before the Games, with a team made up of 41 athletes (33 athletes plus ten guides), including Adiaratou Iglesias, Yassine Ouhdadi and Gerard Descarrega and their guide Guillermo Rojo, who will seek to climb to the top of the podium in their different categories.
On the slopes of the Charlty stadium in Paris, 1,330 athletes from 107 countries will compete, in what is the largest event in Paralympic athletics just a year before the Paralympic Games, for which many will seek their direct ticket in this championship.
Among the Spanish athletes who will try to shine are the Paralympic champions Adiaratou Iglesias (T13 class), Yassine Ouhdadi (T13) and the couple formed by Gerard Descarrega (T11) and his guide Guillermo Rojo, all of them members of the Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind (FEDC).
Three other medalists from the national delegation in the last Games also start with options to get on the podium: Ivn Cano (T13 class), Sara Martínez (T12) and Hector Cabrera (T12), all of them with visual disabilities.
The complete list of athletes belonging to the blind federation is made up of long-distance runners Alberto Surez (T13) and Cristian Bentez (T13), pitchers Álvaro del Amo (F11), Kim López and Paula Heras (F12), jumpers Sara Fernández ( T12) and Martín Parejo (T11), the sprinters Lia Beel (T11)-Marco Antonio Illescas, Melani Berges (T12)-Sergio Díaz del Campo, Nagore Folgado (T12)-Javier Zaplana, Gara Fuentes (T12)-Jaime del Río and Ivn Hernndez (T13), and the sprinters and jumpers Winsdom Ikhiuwu (T13), Alba García (T11)-Diego Folgado, Joan Munar (T11)-Jos Mara Marvizn, Joan Sirera (T13), Eduardo Uceda (T11)-Jorge Gutirrez and the guides Jorge Gras Ral Gracia del Río.
The Spanish Sports Federation for People with Physical Disabilities will have four participants: the sprinters Sara Andrés (T64) and Alberto Vila (T64), the pitcher David Fernández (F57) and the jumper Desire Vila (T63).
The representation by the Federation of People with Intellectual Disabilities is made up of the sprinter brothers Deliber and Dionibel Rodríguez (T20), both with experience in Games.
Two representatives are also provided by the Spanish Federation of People with Cerebral Palsy and Acquired Brain Injury with Miriam Martínez (class F34) and Judith Tortosa (T72 for athletes who race with a sports walker).
The competition will consist of 171 events and in 163 of them, those that are part of the Paralympic program in the individual category, the direct qualification place for Paris 2024 will be granted to the gold, silver and bronze medalists, as long as they finish three behind. or more participants. The fourth classified, in addition, will get a place for his country that, unlike the previous ones, will not be nominal.
In the last edition, held in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) in 2019, Spain won eight medals and nine places for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Filed Under: Athletics
2023-07-07 08:49:00
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