The Spanish National Team has been assembled for the last two weeks at the High Performance Centre in Sant Cugat near Barcelona in order to get ready for the European Championship, to be held in Rome from the 10th to the 13th of April. They have been testing, the new Electronic Body Protectors, which will be used this year for the first time in a European Championship. This new equipment will be a challenge for the Spanish Team, which has already experienced their function in the 2008 German Open 2008(6).
The selected team will be made up of the following competitors:
Females:
- Elaia Torrontegui (-47kg.)
- Brigitte Yagüe (-51kg.)
- Andrea Rica (-55kg.)
- Estefanía Hernández (-59kg.)
- Sara Barbero (-63kg.)
- Sandra Lorenzo (-67kg.)
- Noelia Ruiz (-72kg.)
- Sonia Reyes (+72kg.)
Males:
- Vicente Muriel (-54kg.)
- Joel González (-58kg.)
- José Luis Méndez (-62kg.)
- Omar Badia (-68kg.)
- Artitz Itxisoa (-72kg.)
- Nicolás Gracia (-78kg.)
- Manuel Danta (-84kg.)
- Miquel Bernal (+84kg.)
We wish all our competitors the best of luck!
