MADRID, 17 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Madrid athlete Alberto Ávila signed the best result of the national delegation at the closing of the Paralympic Athletics World Cup that was held in Paris and where Spain left with a positive booty of eleven medals and several places for the Games.
Ávila was close to the podium and the twelfth metal for the Spanish team after finishing fourth in the final of the 200 m T64 (athletes with leg amputations) with a time of 23.71 seconds, almost four tenths off bronze.
In addition, Iván Cano, current Paralympic runner-up in the T13 long jump (visually impaired), was unable to enter the fight for the medals and finished tenth after a best mark of 5.99 meters. Winsdon Ikhiuwu was eleventh with 5.88 and Joan Sirera fifteenth with 5.34.
Finally, in the semifinals of the 200 meters T12, neither Gara Fuentes-Jorge Gutiérrez nor Melani Berges-Sergio Díaz managed to get into the final, with Berges remaining eight hundredths of a second from having gone into the fight for the medals.
In this way, Spain leaves Paris, where it will return in a year to compete in the Paralympic Games, with eleven medals, three more than in the last World Cup in Dubai in 2019. Yassine Ouhdadi and Adiaratou Iglesias were protagonists with a gold and one silver for each one, joining two other silver medals from Gerard Descarrega-José María Marvizón and Sara Andrés, and five bronze medals from Joan Munar, Álvaro del Amo (two), Judith Tortosa and Nagore Folgado-Javier Zaplana.
In addition, as indicated by the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), the national delegation has finished the championship with ten qualifying places for the Paris 2024 Games, seven of them nominal for Yassine Ouhdadi, Adiaratou Iglesias, Gerard Descárrega, Sara Andrés, Joan Munar , Álvaro del Amo and Nagore Folgado, and the other three remaining for the country, although he stressed that all of them must endorse their good shape by accrediting minimum marks during the next season.