spanish election women’s basketball will be in Paris Olympics 2024 since the victory Japan vs Canada (82-86) assures the Spanish team in the Sopron pre-Olympic tournament this Sunday one of three places is at stake for this summer’s event.
It will be Spain’s sixth appearance at the Olympic Games, having made its debut in Barcelona in 1992 and achieved its greatest success in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, where it won the silver medal. He finished Tokyo 2021 in sixth place.
The team led by Miguel Méndez will face Hungary this afternoon (17:30) but will definitely do so: If they draw with Japan and win, they will be in second place, if they lose, they will be in third place. because it will have the same characteristics as Canada, but it will not fall to the fourth place, which is the only country that will not qualify for Paris by beating the North American team.
Spain lost to Japan on the first day, Japan then lost to Hungary, and on the second day they beat Canada and defeated the local team.
Japan took the initiative in a close match but Canada tied the score at 79 with five minutes remaining, putting both their victory and Spain’s ticket to the Games in doubt. In that moment of tension, a basket from Saori Miyazaki and two more moves from Maki Takada gave the Asian team the initiative and confidence to get the victory back on track.
This victory not only facilitated Spain’s qualification for the Games, Japan also secures repeat at Olympic event After the big surprise at the Tokyo Games. At the event three years ago, the Japanese team surprised Belgium in the quarter-finals and France in the semi-finals before going up against the United States (90-75) in the final and winning the silver medal.