Girona athletics are in luck. Three athletes were included in the prelist for the Paris Olympic Games which will start very soon. Esther Guerrero (Banyoles), Adel Mechaal (Palamós) and Joshua Canales (Girona), will represent the Girona counties in this summer’s big sporting event. A unique event for which they have been preparing for almost a lifetime.
The competitions, in the case of athletics, will take place between August 1 and 11. There are 57 athletes on the shortlist, which will be closed definitively on Sunday. And for the first time in history, the presence of women (31) is greater than men (26).
For Guerrero it will be his third Olympic Games. Recently, banyolina was fifth in theEuropean Rome and champion a The Nucia in it Championship of Spain in the 1,500 meters. It will also be the third Games for Palamosí Mechaal, with a fifth place as his best result. He will double his participation, because he will compete in both the 1,500 meters and the 5,000.
The great news will be Canales from Girona, who will bring freshness in the 800 meters. For him it will indeed be the premiere, a fact that does not seem true considering the statement of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. “He has amply demonstrated why he will make his debut at the Games, with personal bests this year that place him among the ten best Spaniards of all time.” Major words
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Two years ago, Elvin Josué Canales led the Honduran ranking in 800 meters with the mark of 1.49.27 that he achieved in the Sabadell Indoor Track although he has been living in Girona since his parents decided to emigrate from the Central American country at the age of three.
first to the order ofAndreu Novakosky and then in the CAR de Sant Cugat with one of the best professionals in the history of Spanish athletics com Carles Castillejothe one of the Carib it has been polished to become a real diamond that has surprised everyone, even the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA).
At the same time, the former European outdoor champion and former indoor world champion of 800 meters, Mariano Garciawho missed out on the spot, has had a difficult season due to physical problems that forced him to give up defending his indoor crown in Glasgow and outdoors in Rome.
The situation was as follows: Canales had the minimum of World Athletics (WA) and the mark of competitiveness that the RFEA demands that it achieved on June 23 a Guadalajara (1.44.49) plus the ranking points… but he lacked the approval of the Honduran Federation; the one of Reyllo Caves he had the WA minimum but had only run 1.45.26 this year.
He received the document, and in the final of the Spanish Championship, the Girona player endured with patience and with a maturity unbecoming of an athlete lacking experience.
2024-07-03 15:42:13
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