Daniel Costa 'Melo', coach of David Barreiro, is aware that his disciple has "very complicated" to achieve the only available place in the global classification for Tokyo

The Galician David Barreiro will play the semi-final of the C2 1,000 of the global Olympic classification, after finishing fifth in the elimination today in the Russian city of Barnaul, where the last squares to go to the JJOO are put in play.

The pallist of the Grove, who will compete tomorrow at 10: 09 Spanish time in the semi-final of the classification, seeks to expand the number of ships of the national team for the Nipone appointment, in which it already has 11 ships.

Melo defines David Barreiro as a "quite complete" canoist, who "is not too fast not too hard, but adapts very well to the distance of 500 meters, and is also very competitive in 1,000, the test he is preparing when being Olympic."

Spain does not have Olympic participation in C1 1,000 meters since the withdrawal of David Cal, the Spanish sportsman with more Olympic medals, the first of them the gold won in this test in Athens 2004.