The COE ratifies the 13 regatists selected by the RFEV as components of the Spanish Olympic Sailing Team

Támara Echegoyen, Spanish representative at 49er FX, will lead the delegation of almost 350 national athletes who will compete at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 as a flag.

With a gold medal and two Olympic diplomas in her existence, the Galician regatist premiered her Olympic career in London 2012, where she won the gold medal in the Elliott 6m class with Sofia Toro and Angela Pumayega. After the disappearance of this category in the Games, Echegoyen started the Rio 2016 campaign with Berta Betanzos in 49er FX, closing its participation with Olympic Diploma by qualifying in fourth position. In Tokyo 2020, he formed tandem with Paula Barceló in 49er FX, adding a new Olympic Diploma with the fourth ranking.

Támara Echegoyen joins the list of sailing athletes who have been flagged, an honor starring Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba in Mexico 1968, Jane Abascal in Los Angeles 1984 (gold in Moscow 1980 Flying Dutchman), Cristina de Borbon in Seoul 88, Luís Doreste in Atlanta 1996 (gold in Los Angeles 1984 in 470 and gold in Seul 1988 in Flying Dutchman), and then Prince Philip in Barcelona 1992.

For the first time in Olympic history, the opening ceremony will be held outside the Olympic stadium and, on this occasion, the athletes will walk by boat through the waters of the Seine.

From Tokyo 2020 there are two, one man and one woman, the flag of each country at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and thus, along with Echegoyen will be the piragüist Marcus Cooper, gold in Rio 2016 and silver in Tokyo 2020.

The Spanish Olympic Sailing Team

After being selected by the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation to represent Spain at the 2024 Olympic Games in the nine classified classes, the 13 proposed regatists have been ratified by the Spanish Olympic Committee as members of the Spanish Olympic Sailing Team. There will be 13 athletes representing the sailing sport in Paris 2024, seven women and six men, who will participate in the classes 49er, 49er FX, 470, Nacra 17, ILCA 6, ILCA 7, iQFOiL male and female and Formula Kite female.

With a single vessel admitted by category and country, World Sailing, the International Sailing Federation, establishes each Olympic cycle a calendar of qualifying races, in each of which a number of country places are allocated for each class. Once the country square has been obtained, it is the national federation that must select the best-prepared athletes to represent us who are later ratified by the Spanish Olympic Committee as members of the Spanish Olympic Team.

The World Olympic Class World held in the Hague in August 2023, the only occasion of the cycle in which all classes play the world scepter at the same time, gave the exit pistoletazo for the classification as a country for Paris 2024.

The Spanish delegation then obtained the Olympic passport for seven of the 10 classes admitted: 470, 49er, 49er FX, Nacra 17, iQFOiL M, iQFOiL F and ILCA 7. The following month, in September, the eighth square, that of Formula Kite Women, was to arrive at the European Championship. The Olympic year premiered with the place for ILCA 6 in the world class, the ninth, without the full of disciplines being reached with the Kite Male Formula in the French Olympic Week last April, "The Chance Regatta."

The selection of sportsmen by the RFEV has been staggered since the obtaining of the country squares, assessing results and the performance of the different sportsmen in liza. The first confirmations were, in October last year, for Diego Botín and Florian Trittel in 49er; Támara Echegoyen and Paula Barceló in 49er FX; Tara Pacheco and Andrés Barrio in Nacra 17; Jordi Xammar and Nora Brugman in 470; Nacho Baltasar in iQFOiL Masculino; and Gisela Polido in Formula Kite Feminino. In April of this year, following the dispute of the last observation race, the names of Pilar Lamadrid were announced in iQFOiL Feminino, Ana Moncada in ILCA 6 and Joaquín Blanco in ILCA 7.