World masters of their modality, the double canoe of more than 500 meters, the Sevillians Pablo Martinez and Cayetano Garcia de la Borbolla They will play this Sunday the final of the Duisburg World Championship with the firm intention of repeating the title, a brilliant gold medal, conquered a year ago in the Canadian lake of Banook. The canoeists, trained in Nautical Club of Seville and now members of the Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), have prepared with great care this appointment in German waters, where eight places are also at stake in their category for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024and this was proven both in the qualifying series, played on Thursday, and in the semi-finals, three, played on Saturday.
Tano and Pablo were the fastest boats (1:38.894) of the 27 that participated this afternoon in the three qualifying regattas for Sunday’s decisive, during which the medals and Olympic tickets will be distributed. During their semi-final, the first, the predictions came true and the favorites made it to the final: Spain, Poland (1:39.325) and Hungary (1:39.362). The Sevillians, who crossed the finish line in first position, have already dominated the regatta halfway through, at the 250 meter mark, with a time of 48 seconds and 23 hundredths, against 48.36 for the Hungarians and 48.39 for Canadians. were excluded from the final when they were overtaken in the second part of the event by the Poles, bronze medal at the European Games in Krakow this summer.
During the second semi-final, the boats of HASGermany (1:39,591), China (1:40,241) and France (1:41,109) they took the first three positions; and in the third, Romania (1:39.306), Czech Republic (1:39.309) and Italy (1:39.749), with European champions Casadei and Tacchini, reached the final. Given their recent careers, their status as current world champions and their state of form, Cayetano García de la Borbolla and Pablo Martínez are without a doubt among the favorites to win gold in an event where competitiveness and equality are so extreme that victories and the distribution of medals are decided by a hundredth of a difference. The Italians, the Poles (Kitewski and Zezula), the Hungarians (Korisanszky and Fekete), the Germans (Kretschmer and Hecker) and the Chinese (Liu and Ji) are, a priori, their main rivals.
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In the C2 500 final, scheduled for this Sunday at 11:59 p.m., the Sevillians could increase Spain’s record of victories in a World Cup which leaves very good news despite the puncture in the men’s K4 500 final. Yes, he succeeded, on the contrary, the women’s K4 500, where the Galician Carolina García of the Yacht Club is located, winning the bronze medal. A medal to which eight others have been added so far. The men’s K2 1000 (Vázquez, Peña) and C4 500 (Moreno, Sieiro, Graña, Fontán) won gold; silver, the men’s VL1 200 (David González), the men’s (Moreno) and women’s (Jácome) C1 200, the women’s C2 200 (Corbera, Jácome) and the women’s C2 500 (Corbera, Jácome); and bronze, the men’s K1 200 (Garrote).
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