The Spanish Paralympic Cycling Team will face the Ostend World Cup with an expedition made up of 17 athletes, which will be key for the qualifying process for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
The Paralympic road cycling season will live this week, from May 2 to 5one of the great events of the course with the celebration of the Ostend World Cup, which will be key to defining how many places each nation will be able to have in the next Paralympic Games. The Belgian event will distribute a crucial haul of points for this qualifying process for Paris 2024 and, therefore, The Spanish National Team has been preparing this test with special care with a concentration in Tarancón which has extended from last Tuesday, April 23 to today.
He national coach Félix García Casas will have a team made up of Sergio Garrote (H2), Luis Miguel Garcia-Marquina (H3), Martin Berchesi (H4), Gonzalo Garcia Abella (T1), Ricardo Ten (C1), Eduardo Santas (C3), Damian Ramos (C4) and Christian Venga-Eloy Teruel (B). In addition, they will also represent Spain in the Belgian event Manuela Vos Van Denbouwhuijsen (H1), Juan Alberto Jiménez (C4) and Nacho Rodrigo (B), Joan Sansó (B) and Imanol Arriortua (B)which will have as pilots Plamen Dimitrov, Alejandro Gómiz and Francisco Rus respectively. These five athletes will attend with the main objective of passing the UCI functional classification and gaining experience in top-level international competition. It should be noted that Manuel Vos, Nacho Rodrigo and Imanol Arriortua, who will make their debut in a World Cup, come from the Cofidis Paralympic Promises Team, which will once again contribute new runners to the national team, demonstrating that it is currently the great incubator of talents. of national Paralympic cycling.
On Thursday the competition will begin with the celebration of the time trials for handbike and tricycles, while Friday will be the day chosen for the time trial of the bicycle and tandem classes. On Saturday we will experience the online handbike and tricycle test and on Sunday, on the closing day, we will have a program made up of the online bicycle and tandem tests plus the Team Relay test.
You can follow all the information regarding what happens at the Ostend World Cup on social networks using the hashtag #TeamESPcycling.