Spanish canoeing glimpses the medals at the European Championships in Montemor-o-Velho (Portugal) after entering 13 boats in their respective A finals. Eight of them achieved direct qualification in the series on Thursday and another five have joined today after passing the semi-finals screen.. Spain seeks to improve last year’s results in Racice (Czech Republic), where She added up to 12 metals, four of them gold, to finish second in the medal table after Hungary.
Laia Pelachs (K1 1000), Antía Jácome (C1 200), Pablo Graña (C1 200), Sara Ouzande (K1 200) Carlos Arevalo (K1 200), Daniel Grijalba (C1 500), Angels Moreno and Viktoriia Yarchevska (C2 500) and the K4 500 Sara Ouzande, Lucía Val, Daniela García and Bárbara Pardo They achieved direct passage to the fight for medals in yesterday’s series.
This Friday the award-winning men’s K4 500 has joined, which is now part of Adrián del Río, Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Cooper and Rodrigo Germadein addition to Pablo Crespo (C1 1000), Paco Cubelos (K1 1000), Manuel Fontán and Diego Domínguez (C2 500) and Carolina García and Nerea García (K2 500).
In fact, only four paddlers have not achieved the goal. Estefanía Fernández and Alex Graneri They could not access their respective A finals of the K1 500 after being sixth and fourth in the semifinals. Especially painful was the non-classification of the Mallorcan paddler by just 25 thousandths.
The K2 500 of Enrique Adán and Carlos García will also compete in the final Bwho could only be sixth in the semifinals this Friday. In total there will be 18 Spanish boats in the fight for the medals because the mixed C4 500 of Antía Jácome, Viktoriia Yarchevska, Manuel Fontán and Diego Domínguez competes in the direct finaljust like Ana Cantero (C1 5000), Jaime Duro (C1 5000), Estefanía Fernandez (K1 5000) and Alberto Llera (K1 5000).
