The Canarian García Boissier makes history in Spanish trampoline jumping

The trampoline jumps, a minor specialty on the Spanish scene, have experienced their day of glory this Sunday. It was starred by a Spaniard (Adrián Abadía) and a Canarian (Nico García Boissier), who have known how to compete at the highest level and have won an unexpected prize.

Although their range of jumps is not up to par with the best, the design of this test, without elimination, and with 27 couples in the running, favored them. They were going to jump as they knew how, they could not fail and they had to wait for the Mexicans and Germans to make mistakes. The Chinese (Zongyuan Wang and Daoyi Long), who took the gold, jump into another league.

And they went leap by leap. The Mexicans Rodrigo Diego and Osmar Olvera were not fine, who were fourth, just 9 hundredths behind the Spaniards. It is true that the Italians (Lorenzo Marsaglia and Giovanni Tocci) achieved silver with a difference of one point, but Abadía and Nico García Boissier were always in their place.

They They have rewritten the history of jumping in Spaina story that has been brewing since January 2022, when the Italian Domenico Rinaldi appears on the scene as technical director and everything begins to make sense.

Remember Nico García Boissier that when he and Adrián left their comfort zone and moved to Madrid, everything made sense.

The emotion of the Gran Canaria

«We changed scenery, Adri and I. We went to Madrid to complete this project, on May 15 we went there and until February 4 we are together, we live together. In the end we have synchronized», he smiles even without believing it.

García Boissier assures that winning a medal was not part of his plans: «We came to try to get the Olympic place and the medal has been an extra. Having achieved it, having moved to Madrid, leaving many things aside, has a lot of value,” he said.

He was very satisfied with how they had competed in a direct final, a competition with 27 couples.s, and both knew that this benefited them due to the difficulty of competing in such a long event.

«Our series (of jumps) is stable, it is true that it is not one of the most difficult, but we know how to do it very well and we were clear about that. Jump as we know and that would be enough for us, and look, In the end we have won a great prize,” said the Gran Canarian.

He comments that after the last jump he only thought about the Olympic square: «I got out of the water and the first thing I did was ask Adri how many points we had scored. When he told me, a tear came to my eyes because there is a lot of work behind this and he has been rewarded.

The Mallorcan Adrián Abadía was also euphoric. «I’m screaming with joy inside. It was a medal that we did not expect, our goal was to be fourth or fifth to qualify for the Games,” he commented.

They both value the work behind each jump. Excited, Adrián Abadía dedicated the bronze to his mother and his grandmother. “They have been my father and my mother and this medal goes to them,” he stated.

The final was dominated by the Chinese couple with 442.41 points, 58 more than the Italians and 59 ahead of the surprising Spanish.

With this test, the Olympic competition in Paris is already configured, where the podium of this World Cup will be, in addition to the British Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding; and the Americans Tyler Downs and Greg Duncan, silver and bronze in the last World Cup.

The Mexican couple (Rodrigo Diego and Osmar Olvera) and the Ukrainians Oleh Kolodiy and Danylo Konovalov will also be in Paris, as well as a local couple.

The Olympic classification of Abadía and García Boissier It adds to that achieved by the 10k open water swimmers María de Valdés and Ángela Martínez.