Llorente, belonging to the Eresma club, obtained the preOlympic consideration by achieving the three best scores after five competitions, thus meeting the legal objective (Photo RTVE)

The Spanish Federation of Piragüismo announces that the Spanish-Latvian David Llorente will be the Spanish representative in the JJOO 2020 in the K1 test in the slalon discipline, after solving the selection process on the ownership of this square to which he also chose the Basque Joan Crespo.

The Segovian David Llorente, the world's subchampion in K1 and the world's gold team in 2019, already knows the podium on the Kasai Rinkai channel, the headquarters that will host the competition of piragüism in the slalon specialty in Tokyo, in which he won the gold medal in the Olympic test held a few months ago to test the facilities.

The report prepared by the federal entity concludes that the Spanish-Latvian palist will be considered Olympic "without need" to use the third of the four phases envisaged in the selective process, as it remains "verified" that Llorente won the silver medal in the 2019 World Cup, "there is no other boat with 15 points or less, nor is there another world champion boat".

The Spanish selection of pyragüismo in the slalon mode, led by Guillermo Diez- Canedo, has managed to classify for the first time in history all possible boats for the Games, in which will have four boats, including the Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut... also has the Basque Ander Elosegi and now David Llorente, waiting for the leading palist of the female C1.