The German city of Essen is hosting this week the European Archery Championshipan event that also serves as continental team pre-olympic in the Olympic modality, the recurve. This Friday was a key day for the fight for medals both individually and as a team and the sensations have been outstanding for the Spanish delegation in that first modality, with the pass to the final by Elia Canales, but they have not been accompanied in the second. Besides, Andrea Muñoz, Paula Díaz and Alexa Misis have qualified for the team arch final.
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Elia Canales has entered the final of the European recurve bow individual, Olympic modality. The Spanish, who together with Miguel Alvariño achieved the Olympic place in the mixed team months ago to also guarantee an individual ticket (although these places are not nominal and will be decided according to the results by the RFETA, with Alvariño out of the Olympic race in a few months in which she announced a break due to mental health), has prolonged her great sensations and will fight next Sunday to become European champion.
Canales was seventh in a qualification with Irati Unamunzaga eighteenth and Inés de Velasco forty-first. Canales, exempt from the first two rounds, won 7-3 in the third against Frenchwoman Amélie Cordeau. She had to suffer more in the round of 16 to win 6-5 against the Israeli Mikaella Moshe and thus she reached the quarterfinals in which she met precisely with Unamunzaga. Canales won 6-2 to advance to the semifinals in which she defeated the Italian Tatiana Andreoli by a resounding 6-0. Thus, on Sunday she will fight in the match for gold and silver against the German Katharina Bauer, who won the other semifinal 6-4 against the Frenchwoman Lisa Barbelin.
In a final draw of seven rounds, De Velasco she has remained in second (she has won 6-0 against the Israeli Shira Ifergan and has lost 0-6 against the Swiss Olivia Doigo) and Unamunzaga has reached the quarterfinals. She was exempt in the first, she won in the second 6-2 against the Estonian Triinu Lilienthal, in the third 6-4 against the German Elis Tartler and in the second round 6-2 against the British Penny Healey.
The boys have not been able to get into the fight for individual medals, even though Andrés Temiño has been fourth in a classification with Pablo Acha twenty-eighth year Ken Sanchez thirty-seventh. Sánchez (7-3 against the Czech Josef Kresala in the first round) and Acha (6-0 against the Finnish Sampo Ronkanen) met in a second round in which Ken won 6-4. The Spaniard then defeated the Ukrainian Mykhailo Usach 6-5 in the third round and the Danish Oliver Staudt 6-2 in the round of 16, but lost in the quarterfinals 6-5 against the Slovenian Den Habjan Malavasic. He had already eliminated a Temiño exempt from the first two rounds in the third round 6-5.
The men’s and women’s teams, for now without an Olympic place
Although this European Championship, beyond Canales’ outstanding individual performance, had a very important focus on the team events, since in them it served as a European Pre-Olympic for the Paris Games. Neither the men’s nor the women’s teams have been able to achieve Olympic qualification, so they assign this task to the World Olympic Qualifiers and the closing of the ranking, both in mid-June. Classifying the teams gives the right to attend the Games with three goalkeepers of the corresponding sex, but for now Spain remains with that quota of one boy and one girl.
This desire has resisted the national teams this Friday. He men’s team, sixth in the qualification with Temiño, Acha and Sánchez, has avoided the first round and won by a tight 5-4 against Poland in the round of 16. However, they later lost in the quarterfinals against Italy 5-3 to stay out of the fight for medals and an Olympic place.
They have experienced a similar situation the girls. Canales, De Velasco and Unamunzaga have been fifth in the qualification to then debut in the round of 16 with a 6-2 victory against Georgia. However, the Netherlands beat them 5-4 in the quarterfinals. Temiño and Canales, fourth in the mixed team qualification and with the Spanish Olympic place already secure before this championship, have won 5-1 in the second round against Sweden and have lost 5-4 against Turkey in the quarterfinals.
The compound bow girls, in the final
Meanwhile, in reference to the non-Olympic modality of compound bow, the women’s team will fight for gold European hand in hand Andrea Muñoz, Paula Díaz and Alexa Misis. Sixth in the preliminary, they beat Italy in the quarterfinals (231-227) and in the semifinals against Great Britain after the tiebreaker (231-231). They will play for gold against Türkiye.
There will be no fight for individual medals. Andrea Muñoz led the preliminary phase, with Paula Díaz thirty-fourth and Alexa Misis thirty-sixth. However, Muñoz beat the Ukrainian Yulia Stepura in the second round after a tie at 145, but then lost in the third against the Estonian Lisell Jaatma by 143-148. In that same stay she remained Misis after losing 144-146 against the German Katharina Raab (previous victories against the Lithuanian Inga Timinskiene by 145-144 and against the French Sophie Dodémont by 146-144). Díaz fell at the beginning against the Polish Kseniya Markitantova by 139-140.
In a masculine key, Ramon Lopez, the only Spanish participant, was thirty-seventh in the qualification and lost in his debut in the second round by 146-147 against the Frenchman Quentin Baraër. López reached the quarterfinals in the mixed team with Muñoz after finishing seventh in the preliminary rounds, winning 150-147 against Israel and then losing 155-157 against Turkey.
This way, Spain will focus its efforts this weekend on the two European finals. The compound girls will face Turkey this Saturday at 10:27 a.m. in search of gold, while Elia Canales will try to win the Olympic recurve crown on Sunday starting at 3:05 p.m. against the German Katharina Bauer.
2024-05-10 17:07:30
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