María de Valdés will be at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The swimmer from Malaga has confirmed her good form, not only achieving one of the 13 places at stake in the Swimming World Championships held in Doha, but also achieving a more than well-deserved one. world silver in a formidable career in Qatari waters, reaching the end of the race fighting for gold with the Dutch Sharon van Rouwendaal, who took first place by just six tenths.
Van Rouwendaal, Olympic champion and runner-up in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, completed the test in 1:57:26.80, followed by the woman from Malaga (1:57:26.90). She completed the world podium the Portuguese Angelica André (1: 57: 28.20).
The joy was double for the Spanish delegation in the ten kilometer test (the Olympic distance) in open water since Ángela Martínez from Elche, who finished the race in thirteenth position, also achieved a place for the Paris Games.
Historic silver by María de Valdés in the 10K open water race in Doha.
The swimmer from Malaga also achieves the ticket for Paris 2024
!! Congratulations!! pic.twitter.com/h1hZ5NPhGQ— Teledeporte (@teledeporte) February 3, 2024
Go all out in Paris
María de Valdés (Fuengirola, 1998) will live her next summer first Olympic presence, after in the previous Olympic Games, those in Tokyo in 2021, it was Paula Ruiz, also from Malaga, who qualified for the event. The Fuengirola swimmer from CN Liceo adds, with this world silver, a new runner-up finish after the one achieved in the European Championships in five kilometers, in 2022, and another two second places in the National Swimming Championships last 2023. In Paris, the Malaga swimmer aspires to all in the waters of the Seine River.
2024-02-03 12:05:57
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