Rodríguez Uribes receives selections of female and male sword, bronzes in the last european
The meeting has also served to dismiss Lucía Martín-portugués and Carlos Llavador prior to their participation in the olympic games in Paris
Madrid, 22 july 2024. The president of the supreme council for sports (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, has received this morning to the selection of female and male selection of sword, both bronze medal in the last European championship held in basel (Switzerland) last june.
Accompanied by the president of the royal Spanish Federation of fencing, José Luis Abajo ‘ Pirri ’, the representatives of both teams have recalled the four medals that have characterized the best of our European history.
The team formed by Lucia Martín-portugués, Araceli Navarro and Celia Pérez basin, with Elena Hernández Muñoz as alternate gave España the first female team in spanish, on which we Celia Pérez and Araceli Navarro also managed the gold and bronze, single, respectively.
Yulen Pereira, Juan Pedro Romero, Eugeni Gavaldá and Gerard Gonell, for its part, they gained in basel the bronze in the competition of sword.
The reception at the CSD has also served Rodríguez Uribes and the director-general of sports, Fernando Molinero, to bid farewell and show its support for the two representatives of the spanish presents in the olympic games in paris, Lucía Martín-portugués and Carlos Llavador.
Both will compete on 29 july the Grand Palais in paris, following its recent technical concentration in Almería. In this regard, Martín-portugués has highlighted the momentum of the programmes CSD Team Spain in improving the quality of olympic preparation and professionalization in the last two years, which has allowed them to a Full dedication to fencing.
An escalation that, in addition to the historic medals achieved during recent months, it is hoped that bears fruit in paris, joined the bronze achieved by the ‘ Pirri ’ in beijing 2008, so far Only olympic medal of spanish fencing.