Today’s gold medal for canoeist Yarisleidis Cirilo temporarily put Cuba in fourth place in the medal table at the Canoeing and Kayaking World Cup in Szeged, Hungary.

According to the website of the International Federation www.canoeicf.com, due to the cut made at noon this Friday, the leader is Spain (1-2-1), followed by China (1-1-1), of Portugal (1 – 0-0), Cuba (1-0-0), Lithuania (1-0-0), Poland (1-0-0), Romania (1-0-0) and Uzbekistan (1- 0-0), crown owners

Cirilo won gold in the singles (C-1) at 200 meters after covering the distance with a time of 45.99 seconds, escorted respectively by Canadian Kathe Vicent (46.10) and Spaniard Anita Jacome (46.83).

With this result, the Cuban turned out to be the best in this modality in the world competition, since in the preliminaries and semifinal 1 she also finished first with times of 50.25 and 48.17 seconds, in this order.

In statements to the Cuban News Agency (ACN) via WhatsApp, the prominent athlete from Caimanera, in the eastern province of Guantánamo, expressed his joy for his self-gift for his 20th birthday two days ago and for the advance for his mother Yaritza Duboy for Mother’s Day next Sunday.

He pointed out that “I really got into it and it came true, even though he remembered that he still had to do, since he still had the last B of the two-seater canoe (C-2) at 500 meters, in which he expects a good result with his new teammate, Mailienys Ávila Calderón.

He also added that he will fight for another medal in C-1 at 500 meters, so he is focusing on the semi-final and the final of this modality, stages in which “he will throw the rest”, he said. -he rocks.

Another Cuban who could bring a medal, but this Saturday is the single-seater canoeist (C-1) in the thousand meters José Ramón Pelier, who qualified today for the A final with a time of 4:01.21 minutes in the semi-finals.

This Friday he also had action on the water track of Mailienys, which with a time of 50.57 seconds went to the B final of the C-1 at 200 meters.

Yurieni Guerra (2:00.37 minutes) also qualified for the B final of the single kayak (K-1) 500 meters, while Robert Benítez (3:57.72 minutes) will be in the E final of the thousand meters.

This Saturday, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion in the C-2 in the thousand meters Serguey Torres and his new partner in the C2 in the 500 meters, Tabiani Diéguez, will make their debuts, although the main possibilities for the monarch of the Japanese capital are in the C – 1 to five thousand meters, scheduled for the closing of the Cup.