The Spanish women’s and men’s boxing teams begin the assault this Friday European Games from Krakow. The stakes are high, with the first qualifying places for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in dispute. The Spanish boxers arrive with a good taste in their mouths from the Elite Men’s World Championships in Taskhent, in which they won three historic bronze medals. The competition can be followed on RTVE from the quarterfinals.
The boxers of the national team already know the results of the draw for the European Games. After a long journey, the fighters will step into the ring with one goal in mind: the first qualifying places for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The first will be achieved by reaching the semifinals, except in the categories of -51 kg, -92 kg and +92 kg, which will be when reaching the final. The European Games will be broadcast on RTVE starting from the quarterfinals. One of the great absences will be Gabriel Escobar, Olympic diploma in Tokyo 2020, due to the cut in categories due to the search for total gender balance.
laura strong, bronze at the World Championships in Istanbul, (-50 kg) still does not know his rival. He will dispute the round of 16 against the winner of the duel between the Czech Freiherrova and the Danish Sofie Rosshaug. One of the big names in the Games is mary romero (-54 kg). The Murcian, former European super bantamweight champion, has been alternating professional boxing with her return to the amateur field. She took the gold medal in the Belgrade Tournament with the team, and assured that she would like to go to the Olympic Games. She will face the Montenegrin Bojana Gojkovic, her icon in her country, in the first round of preliminaries. Jennifer Fernandez (-57 kg) will give the best of herself in eighth (like his partner Laura) with the winner of the lawsuit between the Ukrainian Marianna Basanets and the Bosnian Ajla Vojic. She will also enter eighth of end Nayara Arroyo (-60 kg), which will be measured against the winner between the Bosnian Tara Bohatjuz and Hanna Okhrei. A challenge for those who are up to it.
Martin Molina (-51kg), Gazi Khalidov (-80kg) and Ayoub Ghadfa (+92 kg) arrive at the Games in a great moment. The three fighters returned from the Elite Men’s World Championships in Taskhent in May with three bronze medals around their necks, and leaving a great image for the next competitions. “We are in very good physical, mental and boxing shape, and we are at our peak,” says Ghadfa. Molina will face the Moldovan Dumitru Vieru in the preliminaries, Jalidov the Polish Klemens Szczepaniak and Ghadfa the Moldovan Alexei Zavatin.
One of the big names on the list is Youba Sissokho (-71 kg). The captain, an Olympian in Rio 2016, returns with the team after injuries and physical problems to try to get a place in the Paris Olympic Games. His rival in the preliminaries it will be the Georgian Eskerkhan Madiev. jose quiles (-57 kg) will face the Romanian Andrei Gavae, whom he already faced in the final of a Golden Belt Tournament and lost by split decision. A full blown revenge. Adrian Thiam (-63.5 kg) will face the also Georgian L. Guruu, and Emmanuel Reyes Pla (-92 kg) to the French Soheb Bouafia. Everything is ready for the Spanish team to face the road to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Taekwondo, Olympic shooting, athletics…
Beyond boxing, this Friday, the Spanish delegation at the European Games will be represented in archery by Miguel Alvariño, Pablo Acha, Andrés Temiño and Andrea Muñoz. Athletics will also make its debut, with Adrián Ben, Laura Redondo, Iñaki Canal, Pablo Torrijos, Dani Arce and Jaël Bestué. Taekwondo, after winning four medals at the Baku World Cups, will be presented with Adriana Cerezo, Hugo Arillo or Adrián Vicente. After yesterday’s successes in karate, they will try to follow the same path in kumite María Torres or Babakar Seck. Canoeing will pursue more joys, such as Olympic shooting, with Olympic places at stake for Jesús Oviedo and Paula Grande, silver jointly this Thursday.