Spanish athlete García Bragado will make history at the Olympic Games with Joma

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Spanish athlete García Bragado will make history at the Olympic Games with Joma

In Tokyo, the Spanish race walker will become the athlete who has competed in the most Olympic Games in the history of the Games.

For the past five years, 50km race walker athlete Jesús Ángel García Bragado has been preparing to make sports history. In such an important event for him, he has chosen Joma and the R-5000 shoe as his allies. It is a great endorsement for the brand and the quality of its product, since the right shoe for an athlete is a determining factor. For the occasion Joma will launch a limited edition R-5000 GARCÍA BRAGADO which is Joma’s tribute to the athlete with the most Olympic Games in history. The Tokyo Games will be his eighth and this is reflected in the golden inscription on the tongue. R-5000 is the new shoe in Joma’s FLY RUNNING PERFORMANCE range of flying shoes. It is the lightest shoe that Joma has designed and weighing only 167 grams, all its elements are designed to lighten the weight while maintaining the needs of this type of runner. In addition, it is a shoe with thin, comfortable and soft profiles. This model is aimed at a very specific profile of runners: athletes with excellent technique and adequate muscle work that control their stride so well that they do not need excessive cushioning or direction of the stride.

“Chuso” García Bragado wins the GP Ciudadela with a new Spanish record

Less than a month before the Olympic Games in Tokyo, “Chuso” García Bragado was preparing for what will be his last great event in world track and field after a brilliant career. The Spanish athlete, who will compete in his eighth Games in the Japanese city, competed in the GP Ciudadela de Pamplona last April and winning in the men’s 10 km category. “Chuso” stopped the clock at 44:11, which is also the Spanish Masters record in that distance. The ‘JomaTeam’ athlete, who competed with the R.5000, beat Juan Manuel Morales (44:16) by 5 seconds, with Daniel Ortega (46:01), completing the podium.

The R-5000 model, the best flyers, Joma doesn’t just say so

The Cross de Alcobendas 2019 is a scoring event for the ranking that determines entry into the Spanish team for the Lisbon Europeans.

In September, Joma launched a campaign based on the opinions of professional athletes to endorse the effectiveness of the new R-5000 flyer. Joma collected all the opinions of athletes who have tested their new flyer, the lightest shoe in the history of the company, weighing only 167 grams, where they told their first experience and sensations. Olympic athlete Chuso García Bragado, who tested the model, declared: “I had the privilege of being the first to test the new R-5000 model. It is clearly a racing shoe, it is what we call in slang a flying shoe. The first impression as soon as you put the shoe on is that it is very light and comfortable. It is very comforting to know that the sole does not wear out quickly, many times when you start to be comfortable with a shoe, the problem is that the sole starts wearing out and you are left without a shoe. That doesn’t happen with the R-5000.

Ruth Beitia new Joma ambassador

The Spanish athlete was the Olympic high jump champion in Rio 2016. In addition, in her sporting career she has won fifteen international medals, two Diamond Leagues and 29 national titles in 28 years of sporting competition. Since 2020 Ruth’s path has joined Joma’s as a brand ambassador. The Olympic champion knows Joma’s equipment first-hand because she has competed with it in the Olympic Games and other international events under the umbrella of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation.

- Hand ball Bronze ‘JomaTeam’

An immense Spain defeated France and got third place in Men’s Handball World Championship 2021 held in Egypt.

A great start by the Hispanos put the match for third place on track. Spain defeated France (35:29, 16:13 at halftime) at the Cairo Stadium Hall in the fight for the bronze medal at the Egypt 2021 World Championship.

The match started with a goal by Dani Dujshebaev, after passive playing, and in the first Spanish attack that continued in the defensive zone with a save by Rodrigo Corrales.

The national team started the match with a 4:0 leading score. France’s first goal would not arrive until almost the 6th minute of the first half. With one minute left, national coach, Jordi Ribera, requested a time-out in order to go to the locker room with a more comfortable lead. They reached half-time with a 16:13 lead on the scoreboard that put an end to a great first half of the Spanish team.

The second half started with great intensity on part of both teams knowing the decisive moment in which they were in, only thirty minutes away from winning a metal. Although Guillaume Gille’s team managed to reduce the distance, displaying their maximum potential, the Hispanics managed to maintain the advantage obtained in the first half. They reached the last minutes of the match with a clear difference in favor of Jordi Ribera’s team, who tried to extend the plays in order to use up the minutes. For its part, France did not cease in the attempt and was placed only four goals behind, forcing the Spanish coach to stop the clock to correct his team and sentence the match.

The bell sounded in Cairo with a 35-29 lead giving the bronze medal to an immense Spanish team that adds a third place in the World Championship to its current European Championship title.

TBV LEMGO wins German Cup

The team from the city of Lemgo won its fourth German Cup.

The team equipped by Joma achieved a historic event, becoming champions of one of the most renowned competitions in world handball: the German Cup. They beat Kiel in semifinals and Melsungen in the final (28-24), winning their fourth title in this competition and qualifying them for Europe next season.

After a tough championship, TBV LEMGO emerged as the revelation of the championship overcoming other teams with more recognition but smaller on the court. Thus, TBV LEMGO becomes the new German champion. This way, the ‘JomaTeam’ makes its mark in German handball and will be aiming for an international title in the 21/22 season.

Russian handball federation joins forces with Joma

The brand sponsors five elite national teams: Spain, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia and Russia.

Since last October, Joma has been the technical sponsor of the Russian Handball Federation. The men’s and women’s national handball teams, as well as the youth teams, are equipped with the Spanish company’s playing and training apparel. The Russians debuted their Joma uniforms at the World Cup in Egypt at the beginning of 2021. The referees of the Parimatch Super League will also receive uniforms from Joma, the technical sponsor.

The agreement with the HFR provides Joma with new opportunities in the Russian sports market and world handball. Lopez, CEO of Joma Sport. “We have already developed a strong working relationship in a short period of time, and I am convinced that, together, we will be even stronger. Joma is firmly committed to quality and design, Lopez emphasized, and we will now fully focus on providing the highest standards of service to the Russian players as one of our flagships in Europe.” “The successes of our national teams - first of all, the women’s teams - and the development of handball in our country make HFR a promising sponsor. Proof of this is the contract with the company Joma, which is one of the leading sports brands in the world of handball and other sports, - believes Lev Voronin, the General Director of the HFR. - I hope that our teams reach new heights with the new uniforms”.

The warriors are Olympic again

The Spanish women’s handball team will compete in the Olympic Games for the fifth time in its history, the third time in a row.

Spain’s victory over Argentina on the third and final day of the women’s qualifying round for the Olympic Games in Tokyo gave them the definitive Olympic pass. The Spanish team, therefore, qualified for the Olympic Games for the fifth time in its history, the third time in a row. The match started with possession for the Warriors, who quickly managed to convert it into a goal with Ainhoa Hernandez from her usual pivot position. For their part, the Argentineans had a hard time getting a goal and did not get their first one until the fifth minute with a goal from seven meters by Elke Karsten. Silvia Navarro, with a stellar performance, kept her goal intact for Carlos Viver’s team, accompanied by a strong Spanish defense, and stopped each of the Pan American chances of scoring. Marisol Carratú was not going to make it easy for the Warriors and soon put on her work clothes.

This way, the game was tied at five at the 11th minute, requiring the national team to up one gear and fortify its defense. Then, Argentine coach, Dady Gallardo, responded with a time-out, motivated by the new lead achieved by their rivals (+3). The Albiceleste defense switched to mixed defense with Nerea Pena, the team’s brain of the team from the center position, with the goal of hindering the Spanish offense.

This new defense caused problems in Carlos Viver’s team, forcing him to stop the clock ten minutes before the end with a 9 to 10 in the Pla de l’Arc de Llíria. But again the good work of the Warriors, both in attack and defense, allowed them not only to recover the difference but to increase it. Thus, they went to the locker room with a nine goal lead.

The return to the court offered us a more effective Argentina facing the goal, managing to maintain a stable 9-goal difference during the first 10 minutes of the second act.

Gallardo would bet on keeping his first team on the court, unlike Carlos Viver who would choose to rotate his players, and as the minutes went by the effects of these changes became more evident. Spain again increased its lead on the scoreboard, taking advantage of the loss of effectiveness of the Argentines, probably due to the accumulated fatigue from playing two games in less than 30 hours.

Nerea Pena continued to add goals to her personal scorebook, while Darly Zoqbi grew in the box, limiting the offensive contribution of the Albiceleste team to 6 goals in the second half. The Warriors’ unstoppable advance would crystallize in a 15-goal victory that surpassed the 13-goal difference scored the previous day by Sweden. This, therefore, allowed them to complete the Olympic qualifying phase in first place in Group I, thus avoiding the draw of the Olympic Games in Tokyo to the Netherlands, their executioner in the final of the last World Championship in Japan.

- Rugby The Lionesses XV won their eighth European Championship title

The women’s rugby XV team put on an offensive show against the Netherlands (87-0) to become European Champions for the eighth time, and fifth in a row.

Fotografía: Walter Degirolmo/ FERugby It took only three minutes for María Losada, back from her knee injury, to open the score for the Leonas XV when she scored after a powerful scrum. This was the tone of the whole match. Spain was really on fire and on the attack, overwhelming the Dutch with attempts of all kinds.

The initial nerves that made the Spanish commit in inaccuracies to which we are not used to, evaporated soon and the three quarters, led by a brilliant Anne Fernandez de Corres, read the game perfectly. The

Leonas scored no less than eight tries in the first half, to go to half-time with a comfortable 46-0 lead. The second half was almost an exact replica of the 40 minutes that preceded it. The Lionesses continued to dominate in absolutely every facet of the game and the changes with fresh legs brought even more speed to the Spanish attack. In the end, no less than 15 attempts were scored, to declare themselves with an authoritative 87-0 victory as European champions once again, and take one more step towards the 2021 World Cup in New Zealand.

The Lions and Lionesses presented their new skins

#PonteEnNuestraPiel was the claim of the campaign to present the new jerseys of the Spanish rugby XV and Sevens national team.