Shanghai (May 16-19) and Budapest (June 20-23) are the two cities chosen to clear 30 of the 68 places allocated for climbing in Paris 2024. They are two cities that share the privilege of hosting an Olympic Classification Series that awards Olympic tickets not only to sport climbing, but also to breaking, bmx and skateboarding.
In the case of climbing and unlike Tokyo 2020, speed will be separated from the ‘boulder’ and difficulty test, thus doubling the medals – from two Olympic golds to four. There will be 68 tickets in total -20 climbers and 20 climbers in the combined, and 14 climbers and 14 climbers in speed-. 30 have already gone to the 6 best representatives from each of the 5 continents after the respective qualifying tests, and 8 are destined for French climbers (hosts) and the so-called “universality” places.
Leslie Romero and Carla Martínez at the European Speed Climbing Cup in Innsbruck 2023 / Source: femecv.com
Ginés deserves access to both finals
The remaining 30 are up for grabs between China and Hungary: 20 for the bouldering specialty and difficulty (between men and women) and 10 more places for the speed test (between men and women). The maximum number of points to which each climber can aspire will be 100. Therefore, 50 points will be up for grabs in the Shanghai stage and another 50 in Budapest. What is certain is that, in the case of the combined modality, whoever qualifies in the two finals will add enough to be in Paris 2024.
Spain, which entered through the big door of this new Olympic discipline with the first men’s gold in history with Alberto Ginés (the Slovenian Janja Garnbret had the same honor in the women’s team), hopes to count on Olympic participation to ratify the good health enjoyed by climbing in Spainboth at a competitive level and at a participation level – for example the spectacular international Climbing Madrid event -.
This is why climbers like those mentioned above work:
Alberto Ginés (Cáceres, 21 years old). ‘Boulder’ and difficulty: Olympic gold works both physically and mentally to arrive at a good level for the meeting in Shanghai and Budapest. The extreme player went through a psychological crisis due to the weight he had to bear – at the age of 18 – after his historic gold medal and is currently in an optimal position to perform at his best level.
Erik Noya (Caracas, 30 years old). speed: World runner-up in 2021, fourth at the 2022 World Cup and European Cup champion that same year, their greatest virtue is their experience and motivation in the face of emerging global talent that has emerged during in 2023.
Leslie Romero. (Sant Joan dels Morros, Venezuela, 26 years old). speed: the champion of Europe in 2023, current champion of Spain and ninth in the World Cup that same year aspires to maintain the record pace this year that led her to conquer so many walls in such a short time.
Carla Martinez (Pallejà, 21 years old). speed: The European runner-up in 2023 wants to continue to rise in the competition at world level.
Behind them there are more since, in total, the current Spanish sports climbing team is made up of the following athletes (absolute category):
1.-Aida Torres Illamola – FEEC
2.- Rut Monsech Gasca – FEEC
3.- Antia Freitas Rial – FEXME
4.- Carla Martínez Vidal – FEEC
5.- Leslie Romero Pérez – FEMECV
6.- Rebeca Pérez Duato – FAM
1.- Alberto Ginés López – FEXME
2.- Erik Noya Cardona – FGM
3.- Mikel Linacisoro Molina – EMF-FVM
4.- Alejandro Rivas Domínguez – FMM
5.- Eneko Carretero Cruz – EMF-FVM
6.- Javier Cano Blázquez – FEXME
2024-05-09 07:11:33
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