MADRID, 17 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The ‘Riders’ Queralt Castellet and Lucas Eguibar seek Snowboardcross, Mogouls and Dual Moguls.
The national team for this championship is made up of Queralt Castellet, Lucas Eguibar, Javi Lliso, Thibult Magnin, Bernat Ribera, Nora Cornell, Lucas Verdaguer, Antón Verdaguer, José Antonio Aragón and Toni Toledo, for an appointment marked in red for the Spaniards, with medal options, especially in snowboardcross and Half Pipe.
Next Thursday, March 27, the World Cups start for the Movistar SBX Team, with Lucas Eguibar (NKEF-Dalton) as one of the most solid options to obtain a great result in Snowboardcross in Switzerland. The Basque already made it clear in the presentation of the season that these World Cups were its great goal of the year, in which it will compete after leaving its aquile tendon break behind.
Eguibar has already returned to the competition after months in the dry dock in the late 2024 in Cervinia, with a good seventh place, and now he wants to confirm in Switzerland that he is 100%, recovering a level that allowed him to be runner -up of the World Cup in 2023, and with which to prepare the Winter Olympic Games of Milano Cortina 2026, which would be their rooms.
It will be accompanied by Bernat Ribera (FCEH-CSFC), silver in the Universiada de Torino (Italy), and Toni Toledo (FCEH-BST). Álvaro Romero (Nkef-Dalton) cannot be on this international event due to an injury that will prevent him from being present in the season. On March 27, starting at 12.30, the qualifiers will begin and March 28, the finals from 12.00.
For its part, Queralt Castellet (FCEH-CEMT), reaches these Engadin World Cups with the mind set to reach the finals and, from there, dream the medals. The silver medal in Halfipe in the Beijing Games in 2022 reappeared at the end of last year in the World Cup test played in Copper Mountain (United States), the same station where a serious accident had a serious accident a year ago in which six ribs fractured and suffered a pneumothorax.
Therefore, he faces, as Eguibar, these World Cups with the intention of being that turning point to resurface, even with the aim of being in the fight of metals. He will be in charge of closing the program with his presence in some World Cups in which the silver was already hung in 2015 and the bronze in 2021.
The action will begin with two of the Verdaguer brothers, Lucas (FCEH-LLIVIA) and Antón (FCEH-LLIVIA), which compete on Tuesday in the Moguls (MO) qualifying, starting at 1:00 p.m. In the case of qualifying for the finals, the following day would do so on Wednesday, starting at 11.30. Óliver Verdaguer (FCEH-LLIVIA) is injured and cannot go to this event. March 21 will be the turn of the other proof of which they will be part of the Dual Moguls, about 2:30 p.m.
That same Wednesday, its participation will also begin the Movistar Freeski Team composed of Javi Lliso (FMDI-Colmr) and Thibult Magnin (RFEDI). Lliso is getting better and better from her back injury and in the last cups of the world she is demonstrating that her state is good. Meanwhile, Magnin will seek to get the most out of his skis and acrobatics. As of 10.30, its presence in Slopestyle (SS) is scheduled, and next Tuesday, March 25, at Big Air (BA) in Engadin.
This Thursday will enter Nora Cornell (FCEH-CSFC), one of the great promises of the National Snowboard, which competes in the SS. In Flachau (Austria) he achieved a great 19th place, in addition to the 14th place in Calgary (Canada). March 26 will do it at the BA in the qualifier from 11.30 am.
In male snowboarding, the RFEDI selected José Antonio Aragón (FADI-GRBRC) for its sports merits during this campaign. It will be present at the SS this Friday from 10 am on the qualifying day and on Tuesday, March 25 at the BA.