Teresa Bonvalot secured a place for Portugal in the women’s surfing competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the International Surfing Association (ISA) confirmed on Tuesday, thanks to its 17th position in the World Surfing League (WSL) ranking. .
The 23-year-old surfer from Cascais was present at the debut of this sport at the Olympic Games, when she achieved ninth place in the Tokyo 2020 event held on Tsurigasaki beach in 2021.
Teresa Bonvalot secured one of the eight places allocated through the WSL world circuit, along with French Johanne Defay, Costa Rican Brisa Hennessy and Brazilian Tatiana Weston-Webb, while the rest of the surfers, North American and Australian, continue to fight for the four remaining vacancies.
Twenty-two surfers will participate in the Paris2024 surfing competition, which will take place in French Polynesia, with Portugal still in a position to compete for more places in the 2023 ISA World Cups, in El Salvador, between May 30 and September 7. June, and 2024, in Puerto Rico.
“It is the official confirmation that we have been waiting for a long time and that has all the justice. For Teresa and for national surfing, which becomes one of the first modalities to guarantee an athlete for the Olympic Games next year. […]. I already had the opportunity to congratulate Teresa and she is naturally very happy”, said João Aranha, president of the Portuguese Surfing Federation (FPS).
At Tokyo 2020, in addition to Teresa Bonvalot, Portuguese surfing was also represented by Yolanda Hopkins, who finished in fifth place, while Frederico Morais missed the competition because, at the time, he was infected with the coronavirus responsible for the covid pandemic. -19.
Source: TSF
