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Fátima Gálvez, world runner-up in the Olympic pit and ticket for Paris 2024

MADRID, 28 Sep.

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Fátima Gálvez, world runner-up in the Olympic pit and ticket for Paris 2024

MADRID, 28 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish Fátima Gálvez added a new success this Wednesday to her list of winners by proclaiming herself runner-up in the world of the Olympic trench modality during the Olympic Shooting World Championships that are being held in Osijek (Croatia), with the added prize of getting the ticket for the Paris Games.

The Andalusian, who last summer won the gold medal together with Alberto Fernández in the mixed competition at the Tokyo Olympics, once again stood on the podium of a major international competition, for the fourth time at the individual level in a World Championship and seven years after doing it in 2015 when he got the title. A year earlier, in Las Gabias (Granada), she had won her first silver, and in 2019 with the bronze in Lonato (Italy).

Gálvez proved once again to be one of the best in her modality and got even for what happened a few weeks ago at the European Championships in Larnaca (Cyprus) when she came close to the medals, in fourth place. But Baena's had courage and despite not starting too fine, in the decisive rounds she was at a high level.

Thus, after being ninth in the first qualifying round and sixth in the second, they repeated this position in the third on Wednesday, where the pass to the semifinals was at stake. Gálvez broke 117 targets and in the tiebreaker she beat Australian Laetisha Scanlan.

In the semifinals, in addition to playing to enter the fight for the medals, the Spanish could achieve the Olympic classification and achieved both goals with 21 dishes, the same as the Australian Catherine Skinner and after making full in her first two sets.

The final, in addition to Skinner, had to compete with the French Carole Cormenier and the Slovakian Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova. The Australian was the first eliminated and the Slovakian the second, so the Andalusian and the gala played for the gold that went to Cormenier by 31 to 29 after a final ruling by Gálvez.

For his part, his partner in the Olympic gold, Alberto Fernández, world champion in the Olympic pit in 2010 and 2018, could not qualify for the semifinals when he fell in the 'shoot-off' in which he was with ten other fencers and finish in fourteenth position.

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