Argentina Set to Compete in 25 Disciplines at Paris 2024: Meet the Qualifiers

Argentine sports qualifiers for Paris 2024

It’s a special time for athletes from all over the world. Not to mention for Argentines. In a few days, more precisely from July 18, the first athletes will arrive at the Olympic Village in preparation for its debut at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. One of the buildings, of the 82 blocks that make up three thousand apartments, will have the sky blue and white flag hanging to decorate a space that will welcome the dreams of all the representatives.

Following the latest rankings closings at the end of June, it was confirmed that there will be 135 athletes in the Argentine delegation and the team reached a number of athletes that places it among the 10 in history with the greatest presence.

Argentina will be present in 25 disciplines in the Olympic program for these Games: football, shooting, archery, fencing, taekwondo, rowing, canoeing, swimming, modern pentathlon, tennis, horse riding, field hockey, handball, sailing, cycling, rugby sevens, triathlon, tennis, volleyball, athletics, golf, judo and table tennis, skateboarding and BMX (freestyle and racing).

Following the confirmation of the last places, including that of the volleyball team led by Marcelo Méndez, who will go for the defense of the podium achieved in Tokyo 2020 (it was held in 2021 due to the pandemic), added to the historic classification in two disciplines such as BMX freestyle by the hand of José Maligno Torres and two young people in skateboarding (Matías Dell Olio and Mauro Iglesias) in the Olympic Qualifiers for urban sports, Argentina will face the Olympic event with the confirmation of who will be the standard-bearers.

The action will begin on Wednesday 24 July with football: Mascherano’s team will play against Morocco in the opening match of the group phase at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Étienne at 10am (Argentine time). At the same time, Los Pumas 7s, the men’s rugby sevens team, will also take to the field to face a tournament that will see them as one of the candidates to fight for a medal.

Two days later, on Friday 26th, Luciano De Cecco and Rocío Sánchez Moccia will carry the flag at the opening ceremony that will take place on the River Seine, on a route that will last six kilometers and will end in the Trocadero area. The volleyball icon and a veteran of Las Leonas, the women’s hockey team, will be the flag bearers chosen by the federations as representatives of the Argentine athletes who will go to Paris with an illusion the size of the Eiffel Tower.

Rocío Sánchez Moccia, captain of Las Leonas and one of Argentina’s standard-bearers |

Argentina’s list of qualifiers for the Olympic Games

– Athletics (6): Florencia Borelli and Daiana Ocampo (marathon), Elián Larregina (400 meters), Belén Casetta (3,000 meters with obstacles), Nazareno Sasia (shot put) and Jaaquín Gómez (hammer throw).

– Canoeing (2): Agustín Vernice (K1 1000m) and Brenda Rojas (K1 500).

– Cycling (1): Eduardo Sepúlveda.

– Horse riding (1): José María Larocca (jumping).

– Fencing (1): Pascual Di Tella (sabre).

– Football (18): Leandro Brey (Boca Juniors), Geronimo Rulli (Ajax of the Netherlands), Marco Di Cesar (Racing Club), Julio Soler (Lanus), Joaquin Garcia (Velez Sarsfield), Gonzalo Lujan (San Lorenzo), Nicolas Otamendi (Benfica of Portugal), Bruno Amione (Santos Laguna of Mexico), Ezequiel Fernandez (Boca Juniors), Santiago Hezze (Olympiacos of Greece), Cristian Medina (Boca Juniors), Kevin Zenon (Boca Juniors), Giuliano Simeone (Atletico Madrid of Spain), Luciano Gondoy (Argentinos Juniors), Thiago Almada (Botafogo of Brazil), Claudio Echeverri (River Plate), Julian Alvarez (Manchester City of England), Lucas Beltran (Fiorentina of Italy).

Volleyball will seek to repeat the podium it achieved in Tokyo 2020 (Volleyball World)

– Golf (2): Emiliano Grillo and Alejandro Tosti.

– Handball | The Gladiators (14): Leonel Maciel, Juan Bar, EIgnacio Pizarro, Federico Fernandez, Santiago Baronetto, Nicolas Bonanno, James Parker, Pablo Vainstein, Federico Pizarro, Guillermo Fischer, Andres Moyano, Diego Simonet, Nicolas Bono, Pablo Simonet, Pedro Martinez, Gaston Mouriño and Lucas Moscariello.

– Field hockey | The Lionesses (16): Cristina Cosentino, Juana Castellaro, Agustina Gorzelany, Valentina Raposo, Agostina Alonso, Victoria Sauze, Rocio Sanchez Moccia, Sofia Toccalino, Sofia Cairo, Pilar Campoy, Eugenia Trinchinetti, Maria Jose Granatto, Julieta Jankunas, Agustina Albertarrio, Zoe Diaz, Lara Casas, (Reservations: Clara Barberi, Victoria Miranda, Valentina Marcucci).

– Field Hockey | The Lions (16): (Reserves: Nehuen Hernando, Nicolas Keenan, and Tobias Martins).

– Judo (1): Sofia Fiora (-52kg).

– Swimming (2): Macarena Ceballos (100m breaststroke). Ulises Saravia (100m backstroke).

– Modern Pentathlon (1): Franco Serrano.

– Rowing (4): Sonia Baluzzo and Evelyn Silvestro (women’s lightweight doubles) and Alejandro Colomino and Pedro Dickson (men’s lightweight doubles).

– Rugby (12) | The Pumas 7s: Santiago Alvarez, Tomas Elizalde, Augustin Fraga, Luciano Gonzalez, Matteo Graziano, Santiago Mare, Marcos Moneta, Matias Osadczuk, Joaquin Pellandini, Gaston Revol, German Schulz, Tobias Wade. Reserves; Rodrigo Isgro and Santiago Vera Feld.

The Pumas 7s, one of Argentina’s hopes for a medal

– Skateboarding (2): Matias Del Ollio and Mauro Iglesias.

– Taekwondo (1): Lucas Guzmán (-58 kg).

– Tennis (8): Sebastian Baez, Mariano Navone, Francisco Cerúndolo, Tomas Etcheverry, Andres Molteni, Maximo Gonzalez, Nadia Podoroska and Lourdes Carle.

– Table tennis (1): Santiago Lorenzo.

– Sport shooting (3): Fernanda Russo (10m air rifle), Julián Gutiérrez (10m air rifle) and Federico Gil (skeet).

– Archery (1): Damián Jajarabilla (individual recurve).

– Triathlon (1): Romina Biagioli.

– Sailing (7): Eugenia Bosco and Mateo Majdalani (Nacra 17), Lucía Falasca (ILCA 6), Catalina Turienzo (Formula Kite), Francisco Saubidet and Chiara Ferreti (both windsurfing) and Francisco Guaragna (ILCA 7).

– Volleyball (12): Luciano De Cecco, Matias Sanchez, Bruno Lima, Pablo Kukartsev, Augustin Loser, Nicolas Zerba, Martin Ramos, Luciano Vicentin, Facundo Conte, Ezequiel Palacios, Jan Martinez, Luciano Palonsky and Santiago Danani.

2024-07-05 06:25:16
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