NAcho Baltasar, The youngest of the Spanish team with 19 years, Playing this Friday, Fight for medals in the men’s closing by finishing in tenth place in the qualification series. The billiard has gone from less to milliseconds On their first date Olimpica. Equipment problems burdened him in the first days, but this Thursday he took fifth place in the first race of DA and third, in the second. Both results raised him from the thirteenth position to the top 10. The Swiss Ilya Colombo, who had just finished, stayed three points and made a protest. In the Spanish team they are confident that he will not prosper and keep his place in the quarterfinals.
“We worked hard. We started the tournament at the bottom. You’ve been going into finals all season, absorbing it and thinking you are… Ah, and then you don’t. I appreciate it very much because it cost me more than the account, ” he admitted before The quarterfinals were played on Friday.
The Ecoville medal race system, the new Olympic class of windsurfing with chips that raise the board above the water, is different from the rest. The ten sailors start the locker at zero in the morning. The quarterfinals, semifinals and final will be played. The winner of the Qualifying Series, Australian Gray Morris, goes straight to the final. Israeli Tom Ruffini and New Zealander Josh Armit, second and third respectively, move on to the semifinals. And from the fourth to the last place they will compete in Fours, among them Nacho.
He gained 24 kilograms to be more competitive
Balthasar inherited the winning genes from his mother Sylvia summers, Who was the 420 world champion , came to Marcel as Second in the world ranking. Its escalation in recent months has been spectacular. He took fifth place at the Marseille test event, achieved Olympic qualification for Spain at the world championships in The Hague, is the runner-up at the U23 World Championships and took the bronze medal this year at the French Olympic week, the last international sprint race before the games in which his rivals were measured for Olympic metal. Bronze brought him to the second place in the world ranking.
This ascent is the result of years of hard work, but not only in the water. In locks, the more you weigh, the faster you go on board. The Balearic went from 68 kilograms to 92. “I’ve put on 24 pounds in three years…. We have tried to do it gradually so that it is as healthy as possible and improve my performance. I knew that I was good, that I had what it took to have, but I lacked those kilos to be on top. My coach and physical trainer asked me for patience. It was a little frustrating to find out that I could gain weight earlier and achieve results, but I am very grateful that they stopped my foot, ” she modestly admits, one of her ID. Eat 120 grams of carbohydrates per hour.
Pilar Lamadrid was disqualified from the fight for medals
Sevilla Pilar Lamadrid finished the qualifying series in fifteenth place, 30 points ahead of the tenth place that would have given it a pass to fight for medals on Friday.
Chapters 6 and 7 were also released this Thursday. Ana Moncada They finished 30th out of 43 and Joaquon Blanco, 29th in a row.
This Friday the world and European champions of the mixed 470 are released. Jordi zmar and Nora Brugman, Who also reach the world No. 1, are looking for the Triple Crown in the Bay of Marseille.
