With 34 athletes, Venezuela will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (+Photos)

Venezuela will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with 34 athletes in 12 disciplines, the locals will seek gold for the country.

Among the athletes, weightlifters Julio Mayora and Keydomar Vallenilla stand out, as well as fencer Rubén Limardo. All of them are looking to repeat the feat of winning a medal.

The Venezuelan delegation will seek to improve its participation in Tokyo 2020, despite the withdrawal of athlete Yulimar Rojas, who hoped to renew her gold and defend the world record she set at that event.

Rojas will miss the Games due to a torn Achilles tendon.

Weightlifting figures

For this occasion, Venezuela will once again count on the participation of Julio Mayora and Keydomar Vallenilla, both silver winners in the previous edition. Both have been classified since last April.

“We will give it our all, as I always do, to take our flag to the top of the podium. I’m sure we will work very hard to win that medal,” Mayora said recently in an interview with the Venezuelan Olympic Committee (COV).

Vallenilla will also be looking to improve in the 89-kilogram category. At Tokyo 2020, she won the medal in the 96-kilogram category.

Anriquelis Barrios is another of the Venezuelan promises who is returning to the Olympic Games, overcoming a knee ligament injury she suffered last year.

Barrios will represent Venezuela in the women’s judo competition

Barrios, who won the Tokyo 2020 Olympic medal, hopes to win a medal in judo after finishing fifth at the Pan American and Oceania Championships.

Veteran seeks glory

Likewise, Rubén Limardo will seek, in his fifth participation in the Olympic Games, to repeat the feat of London 2012, where he won gold, together with his brothers Francisco and Jesús, also fencers qualified for Paris 2024.

Olympic medalist Rubén Limardo prepares for the Paris event

Robeilys Peinado continues to add points to achieve her third qualification for Paris 2024 in the pole vault discipline, while Daniel Dhers, Olympic medalist in BMX, did not advance to the competition after finishing 13th in a final test in Budapest.

Caracas / EFE