Saul Craviotto went down in history in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games winning bronze in the K4 500 m alongside Carlos Arevalo, Marcus Cooper y Rodrigo Germade. A medal that makes him the most successful Spanish athlete in history.
With this, Craviotto adds six Olympic medals and breaks the tie with David Calwhom he has always pointed out as one of his great role models along with his coach, Miguel Garcia.
Craviotto always points to the Galician as the main culprit for Spanish canoeing losing its ‘fear’ of winning, especially at the Olympic Games, where they did not transfer the results they were achieving in European and World Championships.
In the same way, he is one of the great pillars of this new golden age, in which the Spanish team arrived with a chance of a podium finish in all the events in which it competed.
And that, to the team, was the first thing he mentioned when he was reminded that he had become the Spanish athlete with the most medals in the history of the Olympic Games.
“I’m happy, but I have made history also thanks to my teammates. To these three beasts who have helped me achieve two of them [Arévalo, Cooper y Germade]. A Carlos Perezwho helped me win gold in Beijing 2008; already Cristian Toro in Rio 2016,” he recalled in TVE“I am who I am also thanks to these colleagues.”
