This Friday the Olympic Sprint World Cup starts in Račice (Czech Republic). Spain attends the meeting with 40 paddlers and many medal options. The national delegation exercised this Thursday on the track of the Labe Arena Račice, which will host the competition until Sunday, and the sensations were very good.
The Czech event, which will have a total of 155 regattas, welcomes the return of the Olympic K4 composed of Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Cooper and Rodrigo Germade. This boat will have its first international competition since the Tokyo Games, in which they won the silver medal. The other great name of the expedition is that of Theresa Portela. The Olympic medalist (silver in K1 200) also returns in a big event after the Games and He does it on a K4 500 together with Carolina García, Sara Ouzande and Laia Pelaschs.
The first Spaniards to go into the water will be the other K4 500. Starting at 9:21 a.m. on Friday, Barbara Pardo, Elisa Zapata, Miriam Vega and Carla Corral will kick off for Spain to this World Cup that will close for our interests with regatta 154 of the program (K1 5000 m for women), where Begoña Lozano and Miriam Vega will compete in a test with 25 participants and that will be the Final A of the modality.