The Spanish canoe team increased its loot of finalists this Thursday during the second day of the Halifax World Championship, which is disputed in Lake Banook, on Canadian soil. After the six passages in the final and five in the semi-final between the Olympic modality (not necessarily on the Paris 2024 program) and the Paralympic modality made on the opening day, this Thursday they were eight the classifications for the finals and five those obtained for the semi-finals to match that loot from the day before.

The Spanish team has won four finals in the Olympic category. Carlos Arevalo won his series K1-200 win the only ticket in play for the final. With 36.00 seconds, the Olympic vice-champion in K4 won ahead of Canadian Nicholas Matveev and will not have to compete in the intermediate round.

They also managed to qualify for the final in C2-1000 brothers Noel and Diego Dominguez. They finished third in their series, which handed out three tickets to the final and three to the semi-finals. With 3:52.00, yes, they were far from the Chinese Hao Liu and Bowen Ji.

Two women’s boats also made it to the final. Mary Corbera It was the second in his series of C1-200. With 46.68 seconds, she was eighteen hundredths behind the Canadian Katie Vincent, but three tickets were in contention for the final. For its part, Stephanie Fernandez also qualified second for the final of K1-1000. With 4:15.51, she secured second place behind Hungarian Eszter Rendessy (4:14.69).

In addition, the four Spanish paracanoe boats will be in the final. Agnes Philippe won their semi-final to qualify KL2-200while Adrian Mosque He finished second in his VL3-200. In this same test, Javier Reja He finished third in his “semi-final” and will also be in contention for the medals. In addition, Higinio Rivero He was third in his series of VL2-200 to also reach the final.

Five boats, in the semi-finals

They will have to fight this Friday for the passage in the final of the five other Spanish boats. KING RODRIGUEZ and Olympic medalist Carlos Perez Rial They finished sixth in their series of K2-500 and they will try to improve in the intermediate lap to qualify for the final race.

In addition, Paul Crespo He finished fifth in his series of C1-1000 and will also play in the semi-finals. They held the same position in the K2-1000 Aitor Gorrotxategi and Pedro Vazquezalso qualified for the semi-finals.

In the women’s category, two boats will compete in the “semi-finals”. Mirella Vazquez will do it in K1-200 after being fifth in his series, while Aida Bauza and Begoña Lazkano will participate K2-500 after the sixth place with which they created in this test.

The semi-finals of all the tests will take place this Friday, during which the Paralympic finals of Adrián Castaño in KL1-200 and Juan Valle in KL3-200 will also take place. The objective of the Spanish team will be to increase this spoils of fourteen finals between the Olympic and Paralympic events.