The Barcelona Queralt Castelletwho has achieved Spain’s first medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics by capturing silver in the snowboard halfpipe event held this Thursday, declared in Zhangjiakou that she is “excited” and “very happy” after finishing second in a race that was won by the great favorite, the American Chloe Kim.
Castellet, born 32 years ago in Sabadell and who participated in her fifth Games, thus achieved the fifth Spanish Olympic medal in the entire history of the Winter Olympics, after Francisco Fernández Ochoa’s gold in alpine skiing, in Sapporo 1972 ( Japan); and the bronzes of his sister Blanca -also in that sport, twenty years later, in Albertville (France)- and of Regino Fernández -in snowboard boardercross- and Javier Fernández -in figure skating-, in the last PyeongChang Games ( South Korea), four years ago.
“I am excited, I am very happy; It has been an incredible day; I got the medal. Yuuuhh!!”, exclaimed Queralt, in statements provided to EFE from Zhanggjiakou by the Royal Spanish Federation of Winter Sports (RFEDI). “It has been incredible, I started a little badly and then all the nerves came to me, but I have been able to get the round I wanted, in the second; a round that I have been working for a long, long time. Many years. I’m very happy“, Queralt said in China as soon as he got the silver medal.