Maialen Chourrat gold in K1 Slalom with Mariano Rajoy and the outgoing IOC President Alejandro Blanco

The Spanish Olympic Committee has put the gold brooch to an Olympic year full of sports successes with the celebration of the 11th Annual Gala, where Spanish athletes who went on the podium at the Rio Olympic Games have received an emotional tribute. One with a clear protagonism of the personalised pyragüism in the figure of our four Olympic champions: Maialen Chourraut in K1 Slalom, Marcus Cooper in K1 1000 Canoe Sprint and Saul Craviotto with Cristian Toro in K2 200 The President of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy; the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, Iñigo Méndez de Vigo; the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco; the President of the Higher Council of Sports, José Ramón Lete; the members of the IOC, José Peruena and the Deputy Director of the International, and the Minister of the State of the State of the State of the State of the European Union, and the State of the State of the State of the State of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic and the Republic of the Republic of the Republic of the Republic. From the Goyeneche Auditorium, the presenters Lourdes García-Campos and José Luis Abajo, have brilliantly conducted the gala broadcast live by RTVE.