2023-10-02 19:46:45
He Spanish women’s artistic gymnastics team will not be in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, having been left out of the nine places that were distributed in the world championships held in Antwerp (Belgium) when the qualifying round has not yet concluded. The Spanish were in 13th position at the end of the eighth of the ten subdivisions, with no options to get one of the team spots.
The men’s team, made up of Néstor Abad, Nicolau Mir, Thierno Diallo, Joel Plata, Adrià Vera and the current Olympic floor runner-up Ray Zapatahe did secure his place on Sunday.
In this Monday’s morning session Spain placed in seventh position with 152,985 points, behind USA (171,395), Britain (166,130), Italia (162,230), Netherlands (161,197), Romania (157,95) y South Korea (157,297) at the end of its subdivision, the fourth.
Having already secured Olympic places since last year United States and Great Britainthe Spanish team was actually in fifth place out of the nine available spots.
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In the next round he was overtaken by Mexico (154,628), of whose good moment the Spanish coach had already warned, Lucia Guisado.
In the sixth subdivision they passed ahead Brazil (164,297) y Australia (157,896) and the margin for Spain was narrowed almost to its maximum. It could only lose one more place to remain among the teams qualified for the Games and four complete subdivisions remained.
In the next one he sneaked over Canada (157,229), but without impact on the distribution because he had also obtained his Olympic ticket in 2022.
They spent the last wild card in Spain twice, in the eighth subdivision, Germany and Hungary: The German gymnasts were better than the Spanish ones in the four apparatuses and added 157.128 and the Hungarians in two of them, vault and bar, but with enough margin to overtake them (153.563).
No finals due to devices
Con China, Japan and France yet to compete, among others, Spain You must wait until the end of the day to see if you will have at least one individual Olympic place for the all-around competition. The door to the apparatus finals is also closed.
Alba Petisco, Laura Casabuena and Laia Font, that the four devices did, achieved scores of 50.965, 50.265 and 49.464, respectively. Ana Perez he came out on parallel bars (12.933), on balance beam (12.966) and on floor (12.333) and Sara Pinilla made jump (12,800).
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The best historical team result in Spanish artistic gymnastics is the fourth place that the women’s team obtained in the Sydney 2000 Gamesbehind three world giants: Romania, Russia and the United States. In Athens 2004, As in Barcelona 1992, he finished fifth. The entire team did not compete again until Tokio 2020, where she finished twelfth.
USA provisionally leads the qualifying round, with an extraordinary Simone Biles also ahead of the individual classification.
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