The Red of Piragüism to Tokyo

The delegation of the Spanish selection of pyragüism composed of thirteen palists, eight in the esprint mode and five in paracanoe, has arrived today in Tokyo to participate in the Olympic test that is held from 12 to 15 in the Central Breakwater facilities to test this infrastructure, which will host the competition of pyragüism and rowing during the Games of the XXXII Olympics.

The palists will rehearse on the competition track of Tokyo 2020 with the aim of "collecting as much information as possible and leaving nothing for improvisation" during the Olympic meeting, says the technical director of the Spanish Federation of Piragüismo, Ekaitz Saies, to which coaches Miguel García, Marcel Glaván, David Mascato and Ismael Uali accompany.

The Spanish team goes to the Nipona meeting with a group of athletes in the one includes the Olympic Balear champion Marcus Cooper Walz - gold in K1 1,000 in Rio -, along with his colleagues of the K4 500 world subchampion the Galician Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade. Saul Craviotto, the mark of this ship, will not compete in Tokyo.

La pontevedresa Teresa Portela, who just like the K4 500 recently reached the ranking for Tokyo 2020, will have Wednesday its first contact with the race field that would allow it to reach its sixth Games, the first Spanish sportsman to achieve it.

The esprint is completed by the Galician canoists Sergio Vallejo, Adrián Sieiro and Antía Jácome, in addition to the Spanish-Leoness Patricia Coco.

In paracanoe Spain he goes with the two athletes who got the classification to compete in Tokyo 2020: the Extremeño Juan Valle (KL3) and the Basque Higinio Rivero (VL2). The next year they are looking to get it three more: the Andalusian Javier Reja, the balear Adrián Castaño and the extreme Inés Felipe.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be held from July 24 to August 9 in 32 venues, and will have Miraitowa as a pet - it combines future and eternal Japanese words - while the Paralympics will be from August 25 to September 6, with Someness - in honor of a variety of cherry flower - as amulet.