MADRID, 12 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE) announced this Tuesday the list of minimum marks that national athletes must accredit to ensure their presence at the Paris Paralympic Games next year.
According to the organization, this system aims to guarantee that the places assigned to Spain are distributed “following high performance criteria and that it is the athletes in the best shape” who compete in the event in the French capital. Thus, the minimum ‘A’ guarantees presence in Paris, while the ‘B’, less demanding, will only be taken into account if the quota is not filled with the ‘A’.
Furthermore, as established in the selection criteria approved by the General Assembly of the CPE last June, to prepare these tables the international rankings of 2021, 2022 and 2023 have been taken into account. In this way, the minimum ‘A’ is equivalent to the third best time recorded in this period and ‘B’ is equivalent to the sixth.
Spanish athletes can accredit the minimum ‘A’ between July 2023 and June 2024, but those achieved during 2023 must be endorsed with a ‘B’ in 2024, while for the minimum ‘B’ only the period included will be taken into account. between January 1 and June 16, 2024. In the case of the marathon test, the period begins on October 1, 2023 and ends on March 1, 2024.
At the moment, Spain has achieved ten qualifying places, all of them in the World Athletics Championships held in Paris last July. Yassine Ouhdadi, Adiaratou Iglesias, Gerard Descarrega, Sara Andrés, Nagore Folgado, Álvaro del Amo and Joan Munar achieved them nominally, although all of them must confirm their good condition of meeting the previous criterion of having a minimum ‘B’ between January and June 2024.
The national delegation achieved three more places in this championship, two women and one men, which will be added to those obtained in the Track World Championships in Japan 2024 (two for each event of the Paralympic program), scheduled between the 17th and the May 25, and in the Marathon (six per event), not yet set. All this non-nominal quota will be distributed through the minimum mark system.