Extraordinary day for Spain, which has won four medals on the first day of competition at the World Championship that is taking place in the Portuguese town of Ponte de Lima. Diego Romero, from CMDC Breogán de Lugo, and Jaime Duro, from EP Ciudad de Pontevedrathey made a perfect race, in the C1 short marathonto achieve a very important double for the Spanish delegation. Romero and Duro led the event from start to finish, working as a team and thus adding two metals to the national medal table.
After the test, both agreed that “the collaboration between us has been very important in a very tough regatta in which everything was decided after the first portage”. Another canoeist like Darío Sánchez, from CEP Aranjuez, won the gold medal in the Junior category after a regatta in which he had to fight to the end against the Polish paddler, Wilga. The champion assured that “It was a very complicated race in which I gave my best to be able to achieve this goal”.
In kayak, Spain continued to reap good results. Estefanía Fernández, from CP Iuxtanam Mérida, completed an excellent season by winning the silver medal in the K1 short marathon after a regatta in which she had options to be crowned champion until the last meters. The victory went to the Swedish Melina Andersson, that surpassed our athlete in just over a second.
In the male category, Iván Alonso Lage did not miss his appointment with the metal and starred in one of the comebacks of the day. The Galician athlete managed to climb in the final stretch of the test to overcome his rivals and add the fifth metal of the day for Spain, which heads the medal table. This Friday, September 30, the team boats in the Junior and Sub-23 category come into action, where the Spanish team will continue to seek success. The tests can be followed live on the official ICF channel.