PARIS, Aug. 31 (by EUROPA PRESS special correspondent Ramón Chamorro) –
The third day of competition at the Paris Paralympic Games will once again bring medal opportunities for Spanish athletes, especially in athletics and in the swimming pool, a key day for Teresa Perales.
Spain has already won seven medals in the Paris event, one gold and six bronzes, and hopes to reach ten in the medal table. In the morning, attention will be focused on the Stade de France where Kim López will try to win his third consecutive gold medal in the F12 weight class for people with visual disabilities, where he will compete alongside Héctor Cabrera in a test that he arrives at after having overcome a difficult stage of physical problems, but strengthened after being world champion last May.
In addition to the Valencian thrower, there will be another serious medal option in the form of long distance runner Yassine Ouhdadi, who will try to win the 5,000 metres T13, where he is the current Paralympic and world champion. Sara Andrés Barrios and Eduardo Uceda will complete the Spanish participation in the T64 and 400 metres T11.
Attention will then turn to La Défense Arena, where Spanish swimming will, as usual, be well represented and where the award-winning Aragonese Teresa Perales will seek her twenty-eighth Paralympic medal in the event in which she theoretically has the best chance, the 50-metre backstroke S2.
Guipuzcoan Íñigo Llopis also seems to be a sure bet in the 100-metre backstroke S8, where he is the current world and European champion, while Zaragoza’s María Delgado will try to fight for the medal in the 100-metre backstroke S12.
From there, the options are somewhat reduced, although at the Grand Palais, on the last day of taekwondo competition, Dalia Santiago will try to be with the best in the +65 kilos K44 category. At the Velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Ricardo Ten and Damián Ramos will compete in the C1-2-3 and C4 kilometre time trials, respectively. In addition, there will be boccia with Amagoia Arrieta and Vasile Agache, and in rowing Javier García (scull) and the mixed coxed four will face their respective repechages in search of a ticket to the finals.