Spain adds another six medals in the European canoeing: two golds, three silvers and one bronze

Spain is triumphing in the European canoeing championships in Munich, where it has already won ten medals, as well as another two in paracanoe.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
21 August 2022 Sunday 06:35
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Spain adds another six medals in the European canoeing: two golds, three silvers and one bronze

Spain is triumphing in the European canoeing championships in Munich, where it has already won ten medals, as well as another two in paracanoe. The last day began with the gold of the Paralympic athlete Juan Antonio Valle in the KL3 200 meter test with a time of 40,939 and continued with six more medals, three silver, one bronze and two gold medals for Antía Jácome and the pair formed by Joan Antoni Moreno and Adrián Sieiro.

The next to swell the Spanish medal table was Isabel Contreras, who in the final of K1 1,000 meters climbed to the third step of the podium by a narrow margin of 7 hundredths over the Croatian Anamaría Govorcinovic. The final was dominated by the Hungarian Noemi Pupp, champion with a time of 4:00.276, while the silver went to the Polish Justyna Iskrzycka.

Shortly after, it was the turn of Francisco Cubelos and Iñigo Peña in the 1,000-meter K2 final, where they were only surpassed by the Germans Martin Hiller and Tamas Grossmann, winners with a time of 3.13.812. The Spanish couple, throughout the race in podium positions, stayed 693 thousandths of gold. Third place on the podium went to the Italians Samuele Burgo and Andrea Schera.

The same success was achieved by Antía Jácome and María Corbera in the C2 200 meters category. In their case, they were close to winning the race, only 52 thousandths behind the Hungarians Giada Bragato and Bianka Nagyse. The Spanish started behind, but they went back to achieve the metal ahead of the Germans Lisa Jahn and Sophie Koch (44,879).

Antoni Segura and Alfonso Benavides closed the Spanish medal table in the morning session with the silver medal in the final of the C2 200 meters. The Spaniards spent most of the race in second position and on the last stroke they were about to be overtaken by the Lithuanians Henrikas Zustautas and Vadim Korobov, who settled for bronze by only 3 thousandths. Poles Aleksander Kitewski and Arsen Sliwinski won the gold handily.

The last day resumed shortly after in the best possible way for the Spanish delegation with the gold of Joan Antoni Moreno and Adrián Sieiro, who exhibited themselves in the C2 500 test, dominated from start to finish with great solvency (1:44.822) . The emotion was for the other two places on the podium, finally second the Poles Wiktor Glazunow and Tomasz Barniak and third the Germans Sebastian Brendel and Tim Hecker.

The last gold in Spain came thanks to the exhibition of Antía Jácome in the C1 200 meters, where he started late but in the last meters he signed a spectacular comeback 48.642. The world runner-up in 2021 she won ahead of the Ukrainian Liudmyla Luzan and the Croatian Vanesa Tot.