Spain will attend the Paralympic Games in Paris, which will be held between August 28 and September 8, with 150 athletes -fifteen more than in Tokyo 2020- and a total delegation made up of 259 members.
The Director General of Sports, Fernando Molinero, and the President of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda, made public this Thursday the list of those 150 athletes (139 with disabilities plus eleven for support), among whom is the swimmer Teresa Peraleswinner of 27 medals (7 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze) in six Paralympic Games and who at the French event hopes to equal the American Michael Phelps.
The 150 athletes who will be in Paris exceed the total number of 135 who attended Tokyo 2020 five years ago. On that occasion, the national expedition was made up of 221 people, while now it will be 259, including coaches, doctors, physiotherapists, mechanics and organisation and office staff.
“We have the best expedition in history. An expedition for which our athletes have prepared enormously. Every four years we see an increase in professionalization and we are very pleased with this development,” said Alberto Jofre, general director of the CPE.
Female participation will be 38% (53 women), which is an increase compared to the Japanese Games, where it was 33% (40 athletes). This increase is also exponential compared to other Games such as Rio de Janeiro 2016 (25 women) and London 2012 (22).
In Paris, swimming will be the sport with the greatest Spanish representation, with 34 athletes. It is followed by athletics, with 23 more athletes. 7 supporting athleteswhile wheelchair basketball will have 24 players, divided equally between the men’s and women’s teams. Next comes triathlon, with thirteen representatives plus three support athletes, and table tennis, with ten players.
Spain also has athletes classified in cycling (7), canoeing (6), rowing (5 + 1 support athlete), judo (4), wheelchair tennis (3), boccia (3), taekwondo (2), shooting (2) and fencing, weightlifting and archery, with one athlete each.
As for the distribution by federations, 54 of the selected disabled athletes belong to the Spanish Federation of Sports for People with Physical Disabilities (FEDDF), 32 to the Federation for the Blind (FEDC), 4 to the Federation for People with Cerebral Palsy and Acquired Brain Damage (FEDPC) and 2 to the Federation for People with Intellectual Disabilities (FEDDI).
In addition, eight Olympic federations that have already completed the process of integrating their respective Paralympic modalities will be represented. Thus, the Spanish Triathlon Federation (FETRI) is providing thirteen athletes; ten will be added by the Table Tennis Federation (RFTEM); seven by the Cycling Federation (RFEC); six by the Canoeing Federation (RFEP), five by the Rowing Federation (FER), three by the Tennis Federation (RFET), two by the Taekwondo Federation (RFET) and one by the Shooting Federation (RFETA).
The Paralympic programme for Paris is made up of 22 sports and Spain will compete in 16 of them. More than 4,400 athletes from 182 countries are expected to take part.
List of athletes:
· Athletics: Alvaro del Amo, Sara Andres, Melani Berges, Sergio Diaz del Campo (guide), Hector Cabrera, Ivan Cano, Elena Congost, Mia Carol (guide), Sara Fernandez, Nagore Folgado, Joan Raga (guide), Sydney Fokou, Alba Garcia, Adiaratou Iglesias, Windsom Ikhiuwu, Kim Lopez, Sara Martinez, Jaime Del Rio (guide), Joan Munar, Guillermo Rojo (guide), Gustavo Nieves, Yassine Ouhdadi, Mari Carmen Paredes, Lorenzo Sanchez (guide), Fiona Pinar, David Jose Pineda, Alberto Suarez, Eduardo Uceda, Diego Folgado (guide) and Desiree Vila.
Wheelchair Basketball:
Men’s team: Fran Lara, Oscar Onrubia, Alejandro Zarzuela and Alexis Ruiz (Amiab Albacete), Pablo Zarzuela, Lalo Prieto (UCAM Murcia), Ignacio Ortega, Amadou Diallo, Dani Stix (Ilunion), Jordi Ruiz (Thuringia Bulls) and Asier Garcia and Manu Lorenzo (Bidaideak Bilbao).
Women’s team: Vicky Alonso, Lourdes Ortega, Sonia Ruiz y Beatriz Zudaire (UCAM Murcia), Agurtzane Egiluz, Naiara Rodríguez y Laura Ugarte (Zuzenak), María Heras (UNES Sant Feliú de Llobregat), Vicky Pérez (Amiab Albacete), Sara Revuelta (Ilunion), Sindy Paola Ramos (IMF Getafe) and Isabel de Jesus (Italy).
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Cycling: The film stars Alfonso Cabello, Luis Miguel Garcia Marquina, Sergio Garrote, Pablo Jaramillo, Damian Ramos, Eduardo Santas and Ricardo Ten.
Fencing in a wheelchair: Judith Rodríguez.
Weightlifting: Loida Zabala.
Judo: Marta Arce, Daniel Gavilan, Sergio Ibanez and Maria Manzanero.
Swimming: Enrique Alhambra, Jose Ramon Cantero, Eva Coronado, Maria Delgado, Anastasiya Dmytriv, Ariadna Edo, Mikel Erdozain, Jian Wang, Emma Feliu, Marta Fernandez, Daniel Ferrer, Juan Ferron, Berta Garcia Grau, Jacobo Garrido, Sarai Gascon, Vicente Gil, Luis Huerta, Beatriz Lerida, David Levecq, Inigo Llopis, Miguel Luque, Jose Antonio Mari, Nuria Marques, Carlos Martinez, Miguel Angel Navarro, Teresa Perales, Marian Polo, Antonio Ponce, Oscar Salguero, Ivan Salguero, David Sanchez, Ariel Schrenck, Alex Villarejo and Nahia Zudaire.
canoeing: Adrián Castaño, Inés Felipe, María Araceli Menduiña, Adrián Mosquera, Higinio Rivero, Juan Antonio Valle.
Rowing: Javier Martinez, Josefa Benitez, Daniel Diaz, Saul Pena, Veronica Rodriguez and Leonor Garcia Serrano.
Taekwondo: Joel Martin and Dalia Santiago.
Wheelchair tennis: Dani Caverzaschi, Martín de la Puente and Enrique Siscar.
Table tennis: Jorge Cardona, Ander Cepas, Alejandro Diaz Tirado, Francisco Javier Lopez Sayago, Jordi Morales, Roberto Rodriguez, Jose Manuel Ruiz, Iker Sastre, Miguel Angel Toledo and Alvaro Valera.
Quantity: Fernando Michelena and Juan Antonio Saavedra.
Archery: Fernando Gale.
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2024-07-18 11:31:29
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