This Wednesday, Colombia reached 28 athletes classified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in which the delegation aspires to win gold medals again.
The new member of the list is the boxer Angie Valdes, who got his place in the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
By split decision Valdés defeated Krisandy Rios of Venezuela and achieved his Olympic spot.
The gymnast Luis Blanco He achieved eighth place after eighth place in the general individual final, with 59,099 points and last Monday he confirmed his presence in Paris.
Blanco, who also represents the University of Alabama, in the United States, he registered marks of 13,633, in the jump; 11,700, in parallel bars; 12,200, on the balance beam, and 12,566, on the floor, and she completed the group of the best eight gymnasts on the continent.
🇨🇴🤸♀️ See you in Paris 🤩🇨🇴
The Colombian gymnast Luisa Blanco achieved the ticket for the @Olympic Games @paris2024 by qualifying in the all-around final of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games
Luisa became the 27th Colombian to obtain a place in Paris pic.twitter.com/igOAeJSX7t
— COL Olympic Committee (@OlimpicoCol) October 24, 2023
The Colombian Olympic Committee reports that this is the third time that a Colombian gymnast has qualified for the Olympics, after Natalia Sánchez, in Beijing 2008, and Jessica Gil, in London 2012.
The 28 athletes classified for Paris 2024
1. Lorena Arenas (march)
2. Eider Arévalo (march)
3 to 20. Colombian women’s team (18 players)
21. Natalia Linares (long jump)
22. Daniel Restrepo (diving)
23. Ronal Longa (100 m, athletics)
24. Flor Denis Ruiz (javelin)
25. Tatiana Renteria (Olympic wrestling)
26. Angie Orjuela (marathon)
27. Luisa Blanco (artistic gymnastics)
28. Angie Valdes (boxing)
(Unusual: tremendous blow by Gerard Piqué, he falls into a hole while signing an autograph, video)
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