This week, Catalan Gisela Pulido, from Tarifa, got her passport stamped to that effect Paris 2024 Olympics after starring on the final day a historic comeback at the European Formula Kite Championships taking place throughout the week in Eastney, south of Portsmouth (Great Britain).

With only one place still up for grabs, Gisela Pulido faced the Medal Match from eighth place and after an incredible semi-final (she won the first heat) finished fifth. That’s enough to stay ahead of its main rival (Poland Julia Damasiewicz and Austria Alina Kornelli) in its fight for an Olympic ticket, since France New People’s Poetry and England Ellie Aldridge They’ve been classified,

Gisela Pulido managed to redeem herself, one month later, from a sixteenth-place finish at the World Cup in The Hague that forced her down. postpone your place for the Olympics. In this European Championship in Portsmouth he does not miss the opportunity and will make his dream come true to represent Spain at Paris 2024.

Europeansor instead it turns out to be a bed of roses, Well, the first three days were empty and on Saturday there were protests and falls.

It’s true he didn’t manage to play in the European final, but the result in one of the two semifinals That led him to success, achieving his goal of being in Paris in 2024.

This week he started at a disadvantage in the semifinals against the Pole Julia Damasiewicz, his main rival for an Olympic spot and is not intimidated. He won the first round and this allowed him to finish ahead of the Poles. Both finished the semi-finals with wins in their locker (Damasiewicz dragged him from the previous phase), although a better result this Sunday saw him surpass him in the classification and stormed into fifth place in Europe.

Dutch Annelous Lammerts, who became champion in the second round, was the one who qualified for the final from the semifinal round in which Gisela Pulido participated after adding three wins. Tarifeña, with the goal achieved, he looked happy and will increase Spain’s medal options at the next Olympics. The Spanish cruise continues to show that he is in good health.

This way, the Spanish sailing team will have representation eight out of ten classes at the Paris Games. The women’s Formula Kite joins the 49er, 49erFX, Nacra17, 470 mixed, men’s iQFoil, women’s iQFoil and ILCA7.