Barcelona’92, the thirtieth anniversary of the perfect Olympic occasion in Spanish sport – Muricas News

Barcelona celebrates this Monday, July 25, the thirtieth anniversary of the celebration of the Olympic Video games, the one ones that Spain has hosted to this point and that for a lot of are nonetheless thought-about the perfect in historical past, with the addition that they marked a earlier than and after in Spanish Olympic sport, which achieved its greatest consequence thus far with 22 medals.

For the reason that October 17, 1986, Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC), introduced that the Catalan capital was going to host the primary Video games in Spanish territory, the town and the organizing committee, headed by Josep Miquel Abad, They labored exhausting to organize an occasion that will not be forgotten each at an organizational and sporting stage with first-class infrastructures and a terrific legacy and an Olympic Village open to the ocean. Even the mascot, Javier Mariscal’s ‘Cobi’, was revolutionary.

In little greater than 5 years, Barcelona was able to welcome the greater than 9,300 athletes, 430 Spaniards, and the 169 nations that competed, some revolutionary, such because the Unified Group that welcomed athletes from the Russian republics of the previous USSR besides Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, a free South Africa after the tip of apartheid and with Nelson Mandela within the field of authorities, the younger and new Croatia, additionally separated from Yugoslavia, or the not too long ago unified Germany.

All of them paraded on July 25, 1992 on the Olympic Stadium in an unforgettable Opening Ceremony and a fantastically crafted present that showcased Catalan and Mediterranean tradition. The large preliminary ‘Whats up’, La Fura dels Bauls, Montserrat Caballé and Freddie Mercury’s ‘Barcelona’, the Spanish parade led by the standard-bearer Don Felipe de Borbón, and, above all, the lighting of the cauldron by way of the arrow Paralympic goalkeeper Antonio Rebollo had been different of essentially the most remembered moments of the occasion that gave solution to the times of competitors.

The revolutionary Olympic Sports activities Assist Plan (ADO) bore fruit and Spain signed its greatest Olympic consequence, additionally sowing the seed for the longer term. 22 medals, a quantity that has not but been surpassed, with 13 gold, seven silver and two bronze medals adorned the medal desk of the hostess, removed from the hundred of the Unified Group and america.

There have been additionally resounding disappointments, equivalent to that of the Spanish basketball group, marked by the notorious ‘Angolazo’, however Barcelona’92 consecrated the heroes who had been proclaimed Olympic champions, a crop that Andalusian José Manuel Moreno started within the kilometer time trial in observe biking.

Crusing, a sport that didn't normally fail on the Video games, confirmed its full potential by reaching a complete of 5 metals, 4 of them gold. José María Van Der Ploeg in Finn, Luis Doreste and Domingo Manrique in Flying Dutchmann, Teresa Zabell and Patricia Guerra within the girls’s 470 and Jordi Calafat and Francisco Sánchez within the males’s 470 savored Olympic glory, whereas Natalia Vía Dufresne took silver within the Europe class.

Montjüic vibrated fantastically with athletics, with the golds of the walker Daniel Plaza and the middle-distance runner Fermín Cacho. By no means earlier than had Spain gained gold in athletics and the primary, the pioneer, was Barcelona’s Plaza who, within the 20-kilometre stroll take a look at, achieved that first gold medal with a time of 1:21.45, beating Canadian Guillaume LeBlanc and Italian Giovanni De Benedictis.

Cacho, from Soriano, for his half, is remembered by many because the protagonist of the perfect nationwide sporting success of Barcelona ’92. For the take a look at, for the stage, for the way he entered celebrating the unthinkable feat till that second, the Castilian-Leonese athlete entered the annals of historical past along with his 3:40.12 that he surpassed, regardless of that remaining leisure, the Moroccan Rachid El Basir and the Qatari Mohamed Ahmed Sulaiman. A sluggish take a look at wherein the technique and the ultimate dash of the Spaniard had been decisive.

That very same night time that Fermín Cacho gained that remembered gold, the Spanish soccer group was topped in a packed Camp Nou. A group suffering from younger figures equivalent to Pep Guardiola, Kiko, Luis Enrique, Abelardo or Alfonso was overcoming rivals till reaching a remaining in opposition to Poland, which was not determined till the ninetieth minute with a purpose from the Cadiz striker.

Additionally successful gold, nearly in opposition to all odds, had been the ‘golden ladies’ of subject hockey, who beat Germany within the remaining, whereas judo contributed two with Miriam Blasco and Almudena Muñoz, the swimmer Martín López-Zubero topped within the 200 backstroke and the archery group made up of Juan Carlos Holgado, Alfonso Menéndez and Antonio Vázquez.

Alternatively, the seven silver medals had been extra unfold out by sports activities with two for tennis, with the stunning Jordi Arrese, who was rewarded for his sacrificial preparation regardless of falling to the Swiss Marc Rosset in 5 units, and for the couple shaped by Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Conchita Martínez, who couldn't beat the People Gigi Fernandez and Mary Joe Fernandez.

Antonio Peñalver in decathlon, Faustino Reyes in boxing, Carolina Pascual in rhythmic gymnastics, the aforementioned Natalia Through Dufresne in crusing and the lads’s water polo group, which left probably the most bitter moments with its painful defeat in opposition to Italy, accomplished the silver medals.

Lastly, there have been solely two bronzes, for the athlete Javier García Chico in a stunning pole vault contest wherein the good Sergey Bubka was eradicated by three nulls, and for the tennis participant Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.

On August 9, one other imaginative Ceremony was accountable for saying goodbye to the one and profitable Olympic Video games that Spain has hosted to the sound of the rumba of Los Manolos, Peret and Los Amaya, the perfect and most festive closing for an unforgettable occasion for sport Spanish and Barcelona.

THE PARALYMPICS, ANOTHER SUCCESS

Barely a month later, the town as soon as once more wearing its greatest garments to host the Paralympic Video games, from September 3 to 14, one other organizational and sporting success, with Spain placing on a terrific efficiency that allowed it to win greater than 100 medals regardless of not by then nonetheless don't have any support plan just like the Olympics.

Barcelona welcomed a complete of 83 nations and three,000 athletes, 289 of a big Spanish delegation that hung a complete of 117 medals, surpassed solely by america (175), Germany (171), the UK (128) and France (106). ).

Spanish athletes gained 34 gold medals, 22 of them due to athletics, which gained a complete of 48 and was, along with swimming (43), the best success pool, 31 silver and 42 bronze.

The athlete from Biscay Javier Conde, bodily disabled, gained 4 gold medals within the TS4 class (800 m, 1,500 m, 5,000 m and 10,000 m) and the athlete from Burgos Purificación Santamarta, visually impaired, emulated him along with her 4 victories within the 100, 200, 400 and 800 meters of the T11 class.