The para archery athlete Juan Diego Blas was confirmed this June 7 by the Guatemalan Paralympic Committee as the primary nationwide to acquire his official cross to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games.
Blas, 33, made historical past in 2023 when he participated within the Santiago Parapan American Video games by being the primary archery athlete from Guatemala to see motion in a significant sporting occasion and 9 months later he was confirmed to look in Paris 2024.
This would be the second time {that a} Guatemalan who works in para archery can be current on the highest sporting occasion in sports activities with disabilities since within the 1976 Toronto version there have been two nationwide archers within the “Novice Spherical Open” class. , which was the one time in historical past it existed.
Since then, 48 years have handed for a nationwide para athlete to be current once more within the sport of bow and arrow on the Paralympic occasion.
“It is a dream come true after so a few years and so many makes an attempt.. I’ve been making an attempt since 2015 to see if it could possibly be achieved and it has been a dream since I used to be little, like every athlete and much more so than I used to be concerned within the Olympic and Paralympic motion,” had been the primary phrases that Juan Diego Blas gave after studying of his classification.
Blas was born with the congenital absence of the fibula of his proper leg, that’s, with out the knee onwards. Nevertheless, that has not been an obstacle for him to apply sports activities and since he was 13 he has been actively concerned in bodily actions, to the purpose that he has represented the nation internationally all through the globe.
“I’m very completely happy and grateful, first to God for the alternatives, to my household for all of the assist, to my spouse, to the affiliation that has supported me, with out them it might not be doable. Additionally with my coach, all of the hours he has stayed late with me to attain it,” he concluded.
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games (August 28 to September 8) can be held only a few days after the tip of the Olympic Video games and there can be round 4,000 athletes who will battle for medals, with Juan Diego Blas from Guatemala being considered one of them. .
The Guatemalan Paralympic Committee (COPAG) shared hours after the information that Juan Diego Blas’ classification was given by means of a bipartite invitation.
“Juan Diego accumulates notable outcomes, attaining fifth place in his first Parapan American Video games in Santiago 2023, fourth within the Paris Qualifier in Dubai 2024, and as of the date of this publication he’s in fifteenth place on this planet rating,” writes the official web site of Fb of the entity.
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