Paris 2024. Who are the 90 Argentine athletes who have already qualified for the Olympic Games and those who could join?

There is less and less left to the great Olympic event: the Games that will be held in Paris, between July 26 and August 11 of this year. That is why, as the days go by, the Argentine delegation that will compete in the French capital is being formed. With the recent classification of the Under 23 soccer team, there are now 90 athletes who have secured their place in the Games, and they are detailed below.

• Canoeing (1): Agustín Vernice (K1 1000m).
• Road cycling (1): Nicolás Tivani got the spot by winning the silver medal at the Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile in 2023, but the name is defined by the Federation.
• Equitation (1): José María Larocca obtained a place in the jumping competition, but the name is defined by the Federation.
• Soccer (18): the Argentine U-23 men’s team qualified last Sunday, beating Brazil 1-0. The Olympic squad will be defined by coach Javier Mascherano much later. Any footballer born from 2001 onwards can be named and up to three footballers over 23 years of age can join.
• Handball (14): The Gladiators squad will be confirmed later.
• Field hockey (32): Los Leones and Las Leonas, with their squads of 16 players each to be confirmed in the weeks prior to the Games.
• Swimming (1): Macarena Ceballos (100m breaststroke).
• Modern Pentathlon (1): Franco Serrano.
• Rugby (12): Los Pumas 7s squad, to be confirmed.
• Tennis (2): Facundo Díaz Acosta and Lourdes Carlé, Pan American champion and runner-up, respectively. Although their presence in Paris depends on June 10 being within the top-400 of the world ranking and the top-4 in the country.
• Shooting (2): Fernanda Russo (10m air rifle) and Federico Gil (skeet), both silver medalists at the Pan American Games held in 2023 in Santiago, Chile.
• Sailing (5): Eugenia Bosco and Mateo Majdalani (Nacra 17), Lucía Falasca (ILCA 6), Catalina Turienzo (Formula Kite), Francisco Saubidet and Chiara Ferreti (both in windsurfing).

After silver in Tokyo 2020, the Lionesses will seek to get on another podium in Paris 2024CAH

Those who can join the delegation

More than a hundred Argentine athletes can still join all of them. For example, The men’s volleyball team has a good chance of entering Paris and being able to defend the bronze medal it achieved in Tokyo 2020.. Beyond the seven teams that have already qualified (France, Germany, Brazil, United States, Japan, Poland and Canada), the world ranking grants the five remaining places. One will be yes or yes for a team from Africa and the other four teams will be the non-classified teams that are best placed on the list. There, Argentina appears sixth, but since of the top five the only one that does not have a ticket to the Games is Italy, the albiceleste team is positioned second heading to Paris. Everything will be resolved according to what happens in the Nations League, to be played starting in May. Although the most important thing will be the points added against those who are lower in the table between now and the cutoff, which will be on June 24.

The Argentine men’s volleyball team is very close to qualifying for Paris 2024Instagram @facuconte7

Instead, for the women’s team, known as Las Panteras, the chances of qualifying are remote: In these four months they should climb 10 places in the world ranking, with the complication that there will not be any strong competition until the end of June.

For La Garra, the women’s handball team, March will be key. That month he will face a pre-Olympic that is seen as very complicated, since it will be played in a quadrangular format in Spain, where it will face the local teams, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Of those four teams, only the first two will go to Paris.

In the case of The Yaguaretés, the women’s sevens team, will play from June 21 to 23 in Monaco a competition that will have 12 teams fighting for the last available place.

There are several more sports that have qualifying tournaments or pre-Olympics ahead of them for the Games. They are gymnastics (artistic or trampoline), swimming (by marks or places through the World Cup, also in open water, diving and artistic), table tennis, shooting, boxing, rowing, canoeing – sprint and slalom-, fencing, wrestling, taekwondo, archery, BMX -Racing and Freestyle-, breaking (debuts in Paris), climbing, triathlon and athletics (for minimum marks). In the latter case, places are also awarded for the World Athletics ranking until June 30, the same methodology applied by track cycling or mountain biking, weight lifting, badminton, skateboarding, tennis and golf. .

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