Cabello and Ten lead Spain in the Paralympic World Cup

The Spanish Paralympic cycling team, led by the Valencian Ricardo Ten and Alfonso Cabello and made up of eight other athletes, searches the Apeldoorn Track World Cup (Netherlands), from October 29 to November 1, reissue the good performance of the last championship held in Rio de Janeiro 2025 in which nine medals were won.

The Spanish expedition is made up of Ricardo Ten (class C1), Maurice Eckhard (C2), Eduardo Santas (C3), Julio Bermejo (C4), Ander Albizu (C5), Pablo Jaramillo (C5), Alfonso Cabello (C5) and Isabel Yinghua Hernández (C5)in addition to the tandem formed by Imanol Arriortua and its pilot Noel Martin.

The team arrives at this event after having developed intense specific preparation at the Portuguese Anadia velodrome, where it has held two concentrations that have allowed it to accumulate a significant number of days of work on the track to face the kilometer, speed, elimination, scratch and team speed tests.

The national team will try to repeat the outstanding performance carried out at the 2025 World Cups in Rio de Janeiro, in which Spain achieved a balance of nine medals: four golds, one silver and four bronzes.

Ricardo Ten He was the great protagonist of that edition after winning three rainbow jerseys in the kilometer, scratch and C1 elimination events, in addition to adding a silver medal in speed. For its part, Alfonso Cabello He was also proclaimed world champion of the C5 kilometer and won bronze in speed, both confirming their status as international references in the modality.

Another of the great focuses of attention will be on the mixed speed team, which last year had an outstanding performance by winning the bronze medal in its debut in this event.

The Spanish team, in which they participated Isabel Yinghua Hernández, Eduardo Santas, Alfonso Cabello and Pablo Jaramillo, He then managed to climb to the third place on the podium after beating Brazil in the final for bronze.

The team event will once again be one of the points of interest of the Spanish participation in Apeldoorn. Likewise, it is worth highlighting the presence of Eduardo Santas, which in the last edition contributed to the national medal table with two individual bronzes in scratch and C3 elimination, in addition to the one obtained in team speed.