Jorge Enrique Castelblanco, focused on Sevilla

Panamanian marathoner Jorge Castelblanco does not let his guard down, remains focused on his preparations with an eye to the competition in Seville, where he will aim to achieve the minimum score to qualify for Olympic Games Paris 2024.

“The time is almost here,” said the Chirican runner who stands his ground preparations in Paipa, Colombia, training for the Seville Marathon, Spain which will be next February 18 and where he will try to reach the mark for his third Olympic games.

In his training in recent weeks, Castelblanco continued to build roads, strengthening themall in pursuit of the goal.

According to the organizers, the closing of applications for The Marathon to Seville closes on February 12.

“We will be at my next marathon (Seville), for that minimum Olympic grade,” says the Panamanian on his Instagram social media profilewhile he was training in Paipa, where he stayed since December 2 last year.

Castelblanco was already therein Rio de Janeiro in 2016, in Tokyo in 2020 and now aims to earn a place at the Paris Games in 2024. which will be his third Olympics.

The runner from Chirican achieved a time of 2:09:47 the minimum grade required at the time to stay in an Asian country It was 2:11:30.

Now the minimum grade required in the The 42 kilometer test (marathon) for the qualification for Paris 2024. The minimum time is 2:08:10, this in the men’s division.

Compared to the minimum score required for Tokyo 2020 vs. that required for Olympic event Paris 2024has a difference of approximately 3 minutes and 20 seconds.