The national boxing team returns home with a good taste in its mouth. They will land tonight in Madrid having obtained three other tickets for Paris 2024. In total there will be five for the men’s team and one for the women’s team after playing the qualifiers that took place this month in Bangkok (Thailand).
Thus, the team will return having beaten the figure achieved for Tokyo in 2020 where four athletes qualified. The previous Olympic event was, until now, the event with the most Spanish representatives since Barcelona 92, when seven representatives were obtained.
The national coach and double Olympic medalist, Rafael Lozano Sr., He has been the top technical manager of the team that traveled to Asia with 9 athletes (5 men and 4 women). The objective was to improve the number of three qualified for Paris that there was before arriving in Bangkok (Laura Fuertes, José Quiles and Enmanuel Reyes) and this was achieved after adding the classifications of Oier Ibarretxe, Rafa Lozano Jr. and Ayoub Ghadfa.
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With these figures, Spain has become the European country with the largest male representation for the Paris Games, above France or Great Britain. Likewise, Cuba has achieved five places and the United States four. Enmanuel Reyes Pla and José Quiles will face their second participation in some games, after having competed in the previous event.
And will release In this Olympic event Ayoub Ghadfa Drissi, Oier Ibarretxe and Rafa Lozano Jr. (son of the coach) and Laura Fuertes, the only female representative who will pave the way for future Spanish Olympians.
2024-06-03 10:38:47
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