Teresa Portela will compete in Tokyo at the age of 38, adding a palmaris in which she has 15 medals in World and 17 in European, as well as being fourth in the London 2012 JJOO, fifth in Athens 2004 and in Beijing 2008 and sixth in Rio 2016.

Today, the Galician Teresa Portela has won the national selective of K1 200 meters, which ensures her participation in her sixth JJOO, making Tokyo the first Spanish sportsman to reach this milestone.

The pontevedresa, which in 2019 won the Olympic classification square for Spain in this test, has secured this noon the ownership of it to compete in the Olympic citation, in which the Spanish selection of piragüismo aims to revalidate the successes achieved in Rio 2016, where it was the sport that most preseas contributed to the Spanish medallion by achieving 4 of the total 17 obtained by the country.

In the selective, held in the regatta field of Verducido, in Pontevedra, Portela has been imposed in the final (42s.292), followed by the asturian Sara Ouzande (42s.629), the castellano-leonesa Mirella Vázquez (43s.972), the Galician Lara Feijoo (44s.172), the Madrilel Elisa Zapata (44s.386) and the extremist Teresa Tirado (45s.882)

2021 / 04 / 08: Selective in Verdudo for Tokyo... Teresa Portela already has the ticket for her sixth Games

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The K1 200-meter national Pyragüism Selective to grant ownership of this boat at the Tokyo Games will be held tomorrow in the Pontevedre Regatta field of Verdudo, with 6 candidate palists, including the Galician Teresa Portela, who in Tokyo would become the first Spanish sportsman to participate in six editions of the Olympic event.

In addition to Portela, which in 2019 obtained the classification of the square of the boat for Spain, Sara Ouzande and Lara Feijoo (Kayak Tudense), Elisa Zapata (Aranjuez), Mirella Vázquez (Fresno Ribera) and Teresa Tirado (Iuxtanam Mérida) will take part... the selective will begin at 10 a.m. with the holding of two semi-finals, whose classification will determine the order of the streets in the final, which will take place at 12 hours.

In the first semi-final, Ouzande, Vázquez and Zapata will compete. The Asterian Ouzande, who trains in the group of women Sub- 23 in Seville, won Portela in one of the four duels held during the Olympic cycle, was in the first - 11 / 05 / 2017-; the Madriquela Elisa Zapata, who trains in Aranjuez, ended up at number 13 in K1 200 in the World Sub- 23 2019 and the Spanish-Leonese Mireia Vázquez, a component of the national team that trains in the Andalusian capital, was semifinalist in K1 200 in the World Cup of S2nd and in the World Cup of S2nd in 2020.

The second semi-final will be the Galician Teresa Portela, winner of 15 medals in the World and 17 in the European, and fourth in the London 2012 JJOO, fifth in Athens 2004 and in Beijing 2008 and sixth in Rio 2016; and the palists belonging to the group of Women Sub- 23 Sevilla: the extremist Teresa Tirado, held 13 in K2 500 in the Sub- 23 2019 European Championship and the Galician Lara Feijoo, semi-finalist in K1 200 in the Szeged 2020 World Cup and sixth in K2 200.

In addition to assigning the K1 200 title to the JJOO, the selective that will be disputed tomorrow will set the classification positions in this test for the Szeged World Cup and the World and European Championship 2021. He will also point out for the K4 500 women's process that he will go to the World Cup and the European this year.