MADRID, 11 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish delegation has said goodbye to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with 18 medals, the highest number of medals since London 2012, and with a harvest of five golds, higher than that of the last Tokyo 2020 Games, all in an event that has crowned the paddler Saúl Craviotto as the most successful Spanish athlete in the history of the competition.
Five golds, four silvers and nine bronzes have been Spain’s haul in the French capital, where the numbers of the last two editions of the Games have been narrowly surpassed: Rio 2016 (17) and Tokyo 2020 (17). Only in Barcelona’92 (22), Athens 2004 (20), Beijing 2008 (19) and London 2012 (20) have more medals been won, although on this occasion Spain travelled with the largest delegation in its history (383) and with real aspirations of surpassing the historic figure. These 18 medals leave the country in fifteenth place in the medal table.
Athletics, with the golds in the mixed relay race in walking and Jordan Díaz in the triple jump and the silver and bronze of María Pérez and Álvaro Martín in their respective 20-kilometre walking events, has been the sport that has contributed the most medals to the medal table (4), with canoeing (3) maintaining its traditional collection and with tennis and boxing offering two each.
With three bronzes won in Paris – by Pau Echaniz in the K1 slalom, in the C2 by Joan Toni Moreno and Diego Domínguez and in the K4 by Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Cooper and Rodrigo Germade – canoeing has become, with 23, the sport that has brought Spain the most medals in Olympic events.
One canoeist, Saul Craviotto, has also made history in Paris. With his bronze medal at the head of the Spanish K4, the Catalan has become the most successful Spanish athlete in the history of the Games, a sixth medal – two golds, two silvers and two bronzes – which allows him to break the tie with fellow canoeist David Cal (5, one gold and four silvers).
In addition, Paris has climbed onto the podium of events with the most gold medals for Spain (5), thanks to the successes of the Pérez-Martín duo, Jordan Díaz, the women’s water polo team, the men’s football team and the Diego Botín-Florian Trittel pair in the 49er class. The Spanish delegation won five in Athens’96 and Beijing 2008, and in the lead are the 13 golds from Barcelona’92 and the seven from Rio 2016.
All in an event in which Spain demonstrated its strength as a team. It arrived at the event with eleven and won four medals, its record, with the gold medals of the women’s water polo team standing out, the second in history for a women’s team after the field hockey team in 1992, and the men’s football team, which won for the second time in its history, also 32 years later.
The women’s 3×3 basketball team won a valuable silver medal and the ‘Hispanos’ closed the event with another bronze, as in Tokyo 2020, to give the sixth medal, all of the same colour, to handball, now the most prolific in the history of Spanish Olympism.
–SPANISH MEDALISTS IN PARIS 2024.
-GOLD.
Diego Botín-Florian Trittel (49er, sailing).
Maria Perez-Alvaro Martin (mixed relay race, athletics).
Men’s national football team.
Jordan Diaz (triple jump, athletics).
Women’s water polo team.
-WIDE.
María Pérez (20 kilometer walk, athletics).
Carlos Alcaraz (tennis).
Women’s 3×3 basketball team.
Ayoub Ghadfa (+92 kg, boxing).
-BRONZES.
Fran Garrigós (-60 kilos, judo).
Álvaro Martín (20 kilometer walk, athletics).
Pau Echaniz (K1, ladder canoeing).
Enmanuel Reyes (-92 kilos, boxing).
Cristina Bucsa-Sara Sorribes (female doubles, tennis).
Artistic swimming team.
Joan Toni Moreno-Diego Domínguez (C2 500, canoeing).
Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Cooper and Rodrigo Germade (K4 500, canoeing).
Men’s handball team.