Higinio Rivero has not qualified for the semi-finals of the cross-country ski sprint, but he has made history
Competing in cross-country skiing, the 43-year-old Barakaldo has played three sports at the Paralympic Games, which no one else in the state has done.
Higinio Rivero, Tuesday. Photo: Paulino Oribe (Spanish Paralympic Committee).
Higinio Rivero has won the 24th place in the Cross-country Skiing Sprint onTuesday at the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Rivero has not been ranked for the semi-finals of the Cross-country Skiing Sprint, but he has made history because, competing in cross-country skiing, the 43-year-old Barakaldo has played three sports in his Paralympic Games.
In fact, at the Paralympic Games in Rivero, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, he competed in canoeing, and this year he played the biathlon. In the Tuesday test, Rivero, in the qualifying round, has done 2: 31.04 and has been far from the twelfth place, which seemed to qualify for the semi-finals, which have been won by the first twelve ranked.
"Today's sensations have been very good in skiing, I think I'm doing very well. We've made a change in the sticks to make the cadence better and we see that it has gone very well, we have adapted very well," Rivero said in statements broadcast by the Spanish Paralympic Committee.
Rivero has decided that he will not play the 10-kilometer test on Wednesday: "I'd rather keep my strength for the final biathlon test and the 20-kilometer cross-country skiing test," he explains, so he has two more days left to compete, Friday and Sunday.
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