Today we got to know better the female martial phenomenon of the Paraguay Olympic team, Gabriela Narvaez, who in a live interview told us about her happy present, after overcoming countless obstacles with notable resilience.
Gabriela Narvaez is the woman who went the furthest in the history of national judo. Even now she is on her way to Paris to become a female pioneer in this Japanese martial art at the Olympic Games.
First march on the continent. In this way, there are two places for Paris reserved for the best, apart from the 20 places for the other many best ranked worldwide.
Without noise, with remarkable resilience, she waited five years to become naturalized, finally fulfilling the procedure and the promise she made to her Paraguayan maternal grandmother, to defend our country.
«It was very difficult to have to wait so long without competing. I kept training but it’s never the same. Competition is essential »she remembers.
He has been living in Asunción for three years and has already won a bronze medal for Paraguay in Odesur
Another tough test that he was able to overcome was being dropped due to injury from the last Pan American Games. But he was able to pass the test, with medical help from the COP physiotherapist, Luis Zamprogna.
In recent months he competed successively in Europe and Africa until he reached continental number 1, with the help of his sister as sparring being essential and all the great support that stood out from the Paraguayan Olympic Committee and the Paraguayan Judo Federation. “It was essential to train in Valencia and participate in the different competitions that lead to Paris 2024,” he reflected and commented that he will once again do another cycle of preparation in Spain due to the great advantages that this implies, with abundance and variety of sparring partners, first-world technical advice and much more intense and complete workouts.
The next challenge is Rio de Janeiro, from the 22nd to the 28th of this year, at the Arena Carioca 1, an event with a high percentage of points for the Olympic qualifying ladder.
“Judo is like tennis, which contemplates a ranking that is what counts to select those who will compete in the Olympic games,” he acknowledged, so of the several qualifying events that remain until the end of June, a good performance in the former capital from Brazil, can be decisive in putting the final stamp on your passport for France.
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2024-04-11 19:54:23
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