The canoeing season is coming to an end, and the penultimate event on the international calendar is the one that will take the best paddlers in the modality to the World Marathon Championships, which this year will be held in the Portuguese town of Ponte de Limejust 70 kilometers from Vigo and 85 from Porto. From September 26 to Sunday October 2, a total of 39 regattas will be held in which the medals will be distributed and where our paddlers will have options in all the tests and distances.
In total there are 36 countries who will meet in the beautiful Portuguese town and where Spain will take 45 paddlers (Senior, Under 23 and Junior, both male and female) to which they will add 15 paddlers who will fight for the title of world champion in the different Paracanoe categories.
These are the distances of the tests that will be held in the Ponte de Lima Marathon World Championship.
short marathon
– Absolute male and female K1, 3 laps and 2 portages (3.4 km)
– Absolute men’s and women’s C1, 3 laps and 2 portages (3.4 km)
long marathon
– female C1. 4 laps, 3 portages (15.4 km)
– C-masculine, K-feminine. 7 laps, 6 portages (26.2 km)
– Men’s kayak. 8 laps, 7 portages (30 km)
In total, there will be 28 absolutes that will be in this competition. Counting both male and female athletes. These are the absolutes that will be present in the competition.
Kayak male category
K1 Short Marathon
– Ivan Alonso Lage
– Jose Julian Becerro
K1
– Ivan Alonso Lage
– Adrian Martin Torres
K2
– Miguel Llorens Lopez
– Alberto Plaza Sagredo
– Jose Julian Becerro
– Miguel Fernandez Castanon
Kayak female category
K1. short marathon
– Estefania Fernandez Gonzalez
– Eva Barrios Marcos
K1
– Lucia Archer Olmedo
– Eva Barrios Marcos
K2
– Irati Osa Irureta
– Arantza Toledo Shin
– Tania Fernandez Garcia
– Tania Alvarez Yachts
male category. Canoe
C1. short marathon
– Diego Romero Fraga
– Jaime Duro Pichel
C1
– Manuel Antonio Campos Garcia
-Manuel Garrido Barbosa
C2
– Fernando Busto Bandin
– Diego Miguens Sanchez
-Manuel Antonio Campos
– Diego Romero Fraga
female category. Canoe
C1. short marathon
– Anna Gorinsky
-Patricia Coco Rohde
C1
– Noah Count Franco
– Gema Victoria Martinez
