The Royal Spanish Skating Federation presents in the CSD the skateboarding development plan

• The promotion of the Team Spain program, created by the Superior Sports Council, is allowing the Royal Spanish Skating Federation to implement a strategy that begins with the detection of talent and culminates in the participation of the Spanish team in the main international events

• “This discipline, which comes from the street, has arrived at the Olympic Games to stay,” said the president of the Higher Sports Council

• José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes was proud of the work being done to promote this sport in Spain and congratulated Spanish sportsmen and women for their latest results.

Madrid, May 28, 2024.- The Royal Spanish Skating Federation has presented this Tuesday at the Superior Sports Council (CSD) the development plan of skateboarding, a discipline that debuted in the Olympic program in Tokyo 2020, becoming during that event the sport with the most interaction in social networks.

This ‘boom’ of monitoring is being taken advantage of by the Royal Spanish Skating Federation to grow this discipline, included within the federative activity in 2015. The detection of young talents is the basis of the development plan that is being promoted by the Royal Spanish Skating Federation in collaboration with the Higher Sports Council and which includes, among others, the professionalization of the structures.

According to the president of the CSD and Secretary of State for Sport, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, “skateboarding has the grace of heterodoxy.” “It’s coming from the street and it’s come to the Olympic Games to stay,” he said.

Precisely, the premiere of skateboarding in the Olympic program in Tokyo 2020 and its consolidation in Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 explain the determined impulse that the Royal Spanish Skating Federation is giving to this discipline. “We are living an unimaginable reality a few years ago,” said the president of the federation, Carmelo Paniagua.

“Skateboarding is enjoying a great success and a very good future awaits you. This would not be possible without the support and trust of the CSD, through the Team Spain program, and the support of sponsors such as Iberdrola and Joma”, added Paniagua.

The general director of the Royal Spanish Skating Federation, Xavier Moyano, has detailed the skateboarding development plan, which begins with the detection of talent and culminates in the participation of the Spanish team in the main international events.

“Thanks to the Team Spain project of the CSD, we can offer athletes the possibility of participating in more international competitions and bet, among others, on the professionalization of the technical team. In addition, the development of national competitions, with the creation of the Skate Series, allows us to increase the moments of competition”, explained Moyano.

In this development plan, gender equality is being very important, as well as the training of sportspeople and technicians. “We have approved training plans and we are working together with the Autonomous Communities for projects of promotion and training of coaches and judges,” added the general director of the Royal Spanish Skating Federation.

The construction of new facilities is also contributing to the increase in the number of practitioners in our country, as confirmed by the president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, on a recent visit to Gandía.

“There, thanks to the European Funds, they can now enjoy a skatepark, which has become a regular meeting point for the youngest,” said Rodríguez Uribes.

Danny León, Alain Kortabitarte, Peio González, Egoitz Bijueska, Julia Benedetti, Gadea Moja, Cecilia Rendueles, Natalia Muñoz, Afrika Criado and Daniela Terol, all of them members of the national team, were present at the event held this Tuesday at the CSD.

The new champion of the Dubai Pro Tour, Danny León, has taken the floor to recognize “the great change that skateboarding has experienced in Spain” after its recognition as an Olympic sport. “I have been skating since I was 9 years old and now I dedicate myself one hundred percent to this sport. I learn day by day, also from the youngest ones, and I will continue to try to be at the top to thank the support we are receiving,” he said.

For her part, Julia Benedetti has conveyed the motivation of the entire Spanish team to certify the largest number of Olympic places in Budapest soon. She was one of the Spanish representatives at the Tokyo 2020 Games, an Olympic event “very atypical, with no audience and no possibility of enjoying the villa”, she recalled.

The big absent at this Tuesday’s event was Naia Laso, champion of the Pro Tour of Dubai last March. He is recovering from the collarbone injury he suffered recently in Shanghai.

According to national coach Alain Goikoetxea, “the whole technical team is working with her to get her sufficiently trained and motivated to the 2024 Paris Games.”

Spain, present at the Olympic Games

The first participation of Spanish skateboarding in an Olympic Games took place in Tokyo 2020, coinciding with its debut in the Olympic program, thanks to the classification of Andrea Benítez, in the street mode, and Julia Benedetti, Danny León and Jaime Mateu, in park.

In Paris 2024, 22 athletes will participate by modality and gender and Spain aspires to increase its participation with respect to Tokyo 2020. The final qualifying opportunity will come on 20, 21, 22 and 23 June, in the Budapest Olympic qualifying series.

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