2024-07-07 19:24:12
His fifths Olympic GamesOne of the most experienced and outstanding athletes in the national sport will be in Paris 2024 and we want to know how Juan Ignacio Maegli classified in the specialty of Sailing.
From Beijing 2008 The story of Juan Ignacio began in the Olympic jousts and will now be in his fifth games as one of the most experienced athletes in the country. Below we will tell you how he qualified and when we will put him back in the rankings. sailboatHow cool!
Paris 2024: This is how Juan Ignacio Maegli qualified
Every time Juan Ignacio gets on a sailboat it is to face new challenges and look for those medals that give great satisfaction, as is the case of the national team, who since 2000 knows what it is to participate in the Olympic Cycle.
In 2023, Juani knew he had to look for that position that would take him to the podium in the Pan American Games in Santiago And that is how, after several days of racing, on Saturday, November 4, 2024, he was awarded the bronze medal in the Dinghy – ILCA 7 specialty.
Maegli shared the podium with the Peruvian Peschiera Loret de Mola, who won the gold medal with 26 points and the Chilean Seguel Lacámara, with the silver and 40 points, just one less than the Guatemalan who finished with 41.
Over ten challenging regattas, Maegli He consistently remained in third place, allowing him to consolidate his position in the final race, known as the “medal race”.
This triumph not only gave him Maegli one more medal in his outstanding sporting career, but also made him the Guatemalan athlete with the most medals in the history of the Pan American Games.
Maegli’s fifth Olympians
He Guatemalan sailor will participate for the fifth time in Olympic Games. Its history began in Beijing 2020 where he was ranked 33rd in the specialty of Laser; four years later in London 2012finished in ninth place.
It would be in Río 2016always in the Laser specialty that would achieve its best result by finishing in the eighth position. From Tokio 2020 changed his specialty, now the Dinghy – ILCA 7 where he ranked 19th, and was also the standard-bearer of the delegation.
When will sailing take place in Paris 2024?
The sailing tests of the Olympic Games will take place over 12 days in Marseille, where ten Olympic titles and thirty medals will be awarded between Sunday 28 July and Thursday 8 August 2024.
Juan Ignacio will start the races from 11:00 hours in France, 3:00 hours in Guatemala, until 19:00 hours, 11:00 hours in Guatemala, and will have the dispute of the medals in his specialty, on Tuesday, August 6, 2024.
Until now, Guatemala It has 15 athletes qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games which will be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024. How cool!
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