Paco Cubelos, a paddler from Talavera, came eighth in the K1 1000m final at the World Sprint Canoe Championships in Halifax, Canada. Cubelos competed from lane 1 from which he started with great force, in an event in which he was looking for his fourth World Cup medal, after the Olympic diploma obtained at Tokyo 2020.
On Friday, Cubelos had to fight to the last shovel to qualify for the k1 1000m final. In a semi-final dominated by Australian Thomas Green, the man from Talavera finished third at 1.55, also behind China’s Dong Zhang.
Meanwhile, Saúl Craviotto, Marcus Cooper, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade, Olympic vice-champions, won gold with a show of authority over Germany and Ukraine.
Spain took the pulse of Olympic champions Germany in a distance that will be seen at Paris 2024. With the power shown by Craviotto, Cooper, Arévalo and Germade, dominating the event since the passage through the 200 and with an unattainable end for their rivals which made them arrive exhausted with a mark of 1:20.83.
Tano García and Pablo Martínez also won gold in the C2 500m at the Canoe-Kayak Sprint World Championships in Halifax (Canada), a successful Saturday for Spanish canoeing after first place in the K4 500m, extended by the silver of Teresa Portela and Sara Ouzande in the K2 200 speed test.
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