2024-07-24 00:49:08
The only Guatemalan Olympic medalist will be present at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. We will remind you how Erick Barrondo qualified to his fourth Olympic Games.
If there is something Barrondo can be proud of, it is that he is the only athlete from Guatemala with an Olympic medal and that he achieved it in London 2012. Now he will return to the ring to try to mark another historic milestone in race walking. Below we will tell you how he managed to qualify for Paris 2024How cool!
Paris 2024: This is how Erick Barrondo qualified
In the closing to classify the Olympic Gamesthe International Association of Athletics Federations (IAFF) announced on July 8, 2024 who all the marchers who will participate in the games to be held in France from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
According to IAFF for the jousts of Paris 202448 will compete athletes on the 20 kilometer walk, so the ranking worldpublished on June 30, 2024, would define the competitors of the games, and this is how Barrondo entered in 48th place.
Los athletes could be classified in two ways: 50% of the qualifying places was based on the achievement of the minimum markwhich for the 20 kilometers was 1:20.10, in a test within the qualifying period. While the other 50% in the world ranking of athletics within the qualifying period, which allowed the Guatemalan to pass.
One of the great Guatemalan figures
Erick Barrondo He is one of the most outstanding athletes in the national sport, not only for the Olympic silver medal he won in London 2012, but also for his other participations in the Olympic cycle.
To Barrondo go to Paris 2024 It will be a battle won, because during the last competitions he had not achieved the access mark, but the international ranking allowed him to be on the final list, so now he will try to do his best.
He Olympic medalist She has participated in four Olympic Games, the first being London 2012 where she won the historic medal. This was followed by Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Now in France she hopes to make history.
When will the march in Paris 2024 take place?
Las Skills of race walking of 20 kilometers will be held on Thursday, August 1, 2024, in Paris, starting at 7:30 a.m. for the men’s branch. That would be Wednesday, July 31, 2024 in Guatemala, at 11:30 p.m.
Erick will compete alongside Jose Alejandro Barrondowho was the first Guatemalan athlete to qualify for Paris 2024 and together they will run the 20 kilometers at the Stade de France.
The 20-kilometer walk, like the new 35-kilometer, with mixed teams and relays, and the marathons will be the only finals to be held in the morning, while all the track and field finals will take place in the afternoon at the Stade de France.
Guatemala has 16 athletes qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
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