The 2017 World Cup leaves the Spanish team the historic milestone of having been distinguished for the first time with the Best National Federation of Men's Kayak trophy, awarded by the International Federation of Canoa

The Spanish selection of pyragüismo has arrived this afternoon in Madrid after winning three medals in the 2017 Sprint World Cup "today more Olympic than ever," according to the gold winners in Rio Marcus Cooper Walz and Cristian Toro, who have bet on a greater recognition of the achievements achieved by their discipline, which has been the Spanish sport that has won the most medals in the last JJOO (4 of 17) and in history the second one that you give the most to the national medallion (16 behind the candle with 19).

The world's subchampions at the new Olympic distance Carlos Garrote, Cristian Toro, Marcus Coope Walz and Rodrigo Germade, with their silver medals hanging at the neck, have led the expedition of the Spanish selection of pyragüism when the group has crossed the arrival area of Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport on the day that they are 13 years old from the second place achieved by the five-fold Olympic medalist David Cal in C1 1,000 in Athens.

The Spanish medals at the 2017 Esprint World Championship have been in the K2 500 meters with the gold of Marcus Cooper Walz and Rodrigo Germade and the silver in K2 200 obtained by Carlos Garrote and Cristian Toro, and the silver in K4 500 in the crew that integrates and te quartet. In addition, the national team has added to the World Cup of Paracanoe a bronze presea obtained by Javier Reja in VL2.
With thirty palists in competition, the Spanish selection has taken part in a total of 13 finals in addition to the three races on the distance of 5,000 meters.

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28 / 08 / 2017: Spain closes the World of Piragüismo 2017 with 3 medals and puts the direct to Tokyo 2020

The Spanish selection of pyragüismo has now completed the participation in the 2017 Esprint World Championship, leading the Olympic cycle to Tokyo 2020 with a three-medal harvest, the last silver achieved in the new Olympic K4 500 meters, with Carlos Garrote, Cristian Toro, Marcus Cooper Walz and Rodrigo Germade, the four winning palists yesterday in K2 200 and 500 of the other medals, silver and gold, respectively. In addition, he has been proclaimed a male Kayak world champion for the first time in history.

Spain achieved silver in K4 500 with Garrote, Toro, Cooper and Germade

The three priests are gold in K2 500 (Marcus Cooper Walz- Rodrigo Germade) and silver in K2 200 (Carlos Garrote- Cristian Toro) and in K4 500 with both couples (Carlos Garrote, Cristian Toro, Marcus Cooper Walz and Rodrigo Germade). The national team has had 13 finalists in addition to the three that have competed in the distance of 5,000 meters with which it has concluded in World 2017, in which they have taken part 880 palists from 70 countries, disputed in the Czech town of Racing.

On the closing day of the World Championship, Spanish medalists Garrote, Toro, Cooper and Germade have been on the podium to collect the silver medal with a black ribbon in their chandal in memory and solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks in Catalonia last week.

In the morning session with seven boats in the end A and three in 5,000 meters, Spain has achieved a second place (K4 500: Garrote, Toro, Cooper and Germade), two quarters (K4 1000: Hernanz, Cabañín, Carriana-Millán and K1 500: Roi Rodríguez), two fifths (C2 200: Seguro-Benavides) and Ruben Millán (K1 5.00); one sixth (K1 1,000: Pelachs); one seventh (K1 5,000: Eva Barrios); one eighth (K4 500: Lassaniel: 1: 500), and one-third (Passaniel (C1).

Spain continues to work hard with the view set in Tokyo 2020

The K4 500 of the Spanish-Leoness Carlos Garrote, the balear Marcus Cooper Walz and the Galician Cristian Toro and Rodrigo Germade (1m.18s.371) has obtained the silver medal in a very hard fight with the powerful German K4, who went out in the head and played a final hit in the final meters to get over the Spaniards, who kept him behind during the intermediate time of race in which they commanded the same in front of the delirium of a dementia that was added to the local K4, which has achieved the bronze.

In the end to the K4 1,000 of the Asterians Javier Hernanz and Javier Cabañín and the Gallegos Oscar Carrera and Ruben Millán (2m.54s.076) have grasped the podium by achieving the fourth place in a race in which they have remained throughout the kilometer of the journey to the stalking of the medals in the head group next to the current Olympic champion of the test, Germany, the world subchampion, Hungary, and the always powerful K4 of Australia that preceded it in the final classification.

It has also been fourth the Galician Roi Rodríguez in K1 500 meters (1m.38s.515) after a first partial in which the Spanish, finalist yesterday at the K1 1,000, has placed himself leader, then on arrival only the Olympic medalists Josef Dostal and Roman Anoshkin and the current world champion René Poulsen have been able to overcome him.

The C2 200 of the Antoni Segura and Sete Benavides baleares (36s.962) has been fifth in a race in which they have always been in the candidate group to fight for the medals. The female K4 500, with the asturian Sara Ouzande, the balar Alicia Contreras, the ceutí Isabel Contreras and the Basque Begoña Lazkano, has taken eighth place in the return of the Spanish team to an end of this Olympic test.

In the distance of 5,000 in K1 the Galician Ruben Millán (21m.11s.875) has been fifth, the Spanish-Leoness Eva Barrios seventh (23m.59s.741) and the Bat Mohssine Moutahir (25m.39s.843) in C1 at number 13.

In late B the four Spanish ships have achieved the full of victories, with the victories of the Galician Carlos Arévalo (34s.964) and Teresa Portela (40s.425) in K1 at the distance of 200 meters and Sergio Vallejo and Adrián in C2 1,000 (3m.38s.843), and the Asturian David Fernández Marqués in C-1 500 (1m.52s.430).

26 / 08 / 2017: Cooper and Toro achieve the first metals for Spain in the 2017 World Cup

Spain today premiered the medal at the 2017 Esprint World Piragüism Championship with the contribution of the Olympic champions Marcus Cooper Walz, winner with Rodrigo Germade of gold in K2 500, which will be new trial in Tokyo 2020, and Cristian Toro, who has achieved silver in K2 200 with Carlos Garrote.

The Spanish team, which had six finalists A in the morning, has obtained a sixth place with the K2 1,000 of Paco Cubelos and Iñigo Peña; the eighth of the C2 500 of Adriana Paniagua- Patricia Coco and Alfonso Benavides in C1 200, and the ninth of Roi Rodríguez in K1 1,000 meters.

Bull and Cooper with their medals at the Czech World Cup

The shooting Marcus Cooper Walz and the Galician Rodrigo Germade have been proclaimed world champions at K2 500 meters, which has been included in the program for the Tokyo JJOO, by performing a race from which they have been absolute dominators. The superiority of the Spanish K2 was evident from the first meters with a very strong exit with which the regatta leaders were placed, to be untreatable already to the goal showing their potential.

The Galician Cristian Toro and the Zamoran Carlos Garrote have reached the silver medal in K2 200 in a race that is very close to the powerful Hungarian K2. No medal but on a high level, Paco Cubelos and the Basque Iñigo Peña. The Olympic Balar Alfonso Benavides was eighth in C1 200. Also eighth place has occupied the C2 500 of the Adriana Paniagua and the Spanish-Leoness Patricia Coco.

In K1 1,000 meters, the Galician Roi Rodríguez, who will also paddle tomorrow at the end of K1 500 meters, has been relegated to the ninth place in a very long final, as has been shown by the image of the grader, who was mad at the struggle of four Olympic medalists, including the local idol Josef Dostal and the German Tom Liebscher, who took the victory. In the end B, the Galician Daniel Duran in C1 1,000 and the Galician Camila Morison and the Catalan Laia Pelachs, and the Basque Begoña Lazkano in K1 500 have been six.

The Spanish Pyragüismo has secured the presence in four other finals of the World Cup with the pass obtained in 1,000 meters by the K4 of Hernanz, Cabañín, Carrera and Millán, and the K1 of Laia Pelachs; the C2 200 of Segura and Benavides and the K1 500 of Roi Rodríguez. This afternoon it can expand this number as it has six boats in the semi-finals to be held.

In Paracanoe the Spanish team has won the first medal by achieving the bronze the Andalusian Javier Reja in VL2... in the final B of KL3 the Extremer Juan Valle has been the winner and the Galician Adrián Mosquera ninth

25 / 08 / 2017: Spain sums up and follows the finalists at the Sprint World Cup of the Czech Republic

The Spanish team has added today the classification of two other ships, the K4 1,000 - Hernanz, Cabañín, Carrera and Millán - and the C2 200 - Segura and Benavids - to the relationship of finalists A in the World Championship of Piragüismo of Esprint 2017, in which it has already ensured the presence of at least eight crews.

This morning the K4 1,000 meters of the Asterians Javier Hernanz and Javier Cabañín and the Gallegos Oscar Carrera and Ruben Millán have been awarded the victory in their elimination in a race of which they have been dominators, and the C2 of the Antoni Segura and Sete Benavides baleares has also been imposed on their own to ensure one of the three places that gave direct access to the end.

Segura and Benavides

These two final A squares join the six achieved yesterday in K2 500 by Marcus Cooper Walz and Rodrigo Germade; K2 200, Carlos Garrote and Cristian Toro; K1 1,000, Roi Rodríguez; K2 1,000, Francisco Cubelos and Iñigo Peña; C1 200, Alfonso Benavides; and C2 500: Adriana Paniagua and Patricia Coco.

In addition, nine of the eleven ships that have competed today in the morning session have reached the pass to their respective semifinals, including the K4 500 in which are the Olympic champions Marcus Cooper Walz and Cristian Toro, who together with Carlos Garrote and Rodrigo Germade, have offered an image of superiority with a magnificent exit that has allowed them to be placed in the lead, since they have kept up to the goal. It'll be tomorrow Saturday, 4: 49.

They also went to the semi-finals to fight this afternoon the Asturian David Fernández Marqués in C1 500 (16: 30h); the Galician Roi Rodríguez in K1 500 (16: 48h) and the Catalan Laia Pelachs in K1 1,000 (17: 29h). In the semifinals of tomorrow will be the Galician Teresa Portela, which has been second in the elimination of K1 200; the Galician Sergio Vallejo and Adrián Sieiro in C2 1,000 (now six); the Galician Carlos Arévalo in K1 200, which has been second; the shooting Adriana Paniagua in C1 200, today fourth; and the K4 500 with the asturian Sara Ouzande, the shooting Alicia Heredia, the ceuti Isabel Contreras and the Basque Begoña Lazkano.

24 / 08 / 2017: Good Spanish debut at the World of Piragüismo of Sprint in Czech

The Spanish team has closed its debut at the 2017 Esprint World Championship of Piragüismo by classifying six boats for the end, including those of the Olympic champions Marcus Cooper Walz and Cristian Toro, who have obtained the direct pass in their respective abolitions.

The good expectations with which the national team reached the 2017 World Cup have been confirmed at the premiere in which it has classified six boats by the end A and three by the end B. Along with the Walz-Germade direct pass in K2 500 and Garrote-Toro in K2 200, the Roi Rodríguez Galician in K1 and the Spanish-manchego Francisco Cubelos and the Basque Iñigo Peña in K2 have entered with authority in the distance of 1,000 meters, confirming both the excellent results harvested this season in the World and European Cups.

Spain debuts at the 2017 Piragüismo World Cup by classifying six boats for the end, including those of the Cooper and Toro Olympic Champions

The Marcus Cooper Walz Ballet next to the Galician Rodrigo Germade in K2 500 have made a very authoritative race, in which the first square, the only one that gave direct access to the A final, will be held on Saturday at 11: 41.
The Galician Cristian Toro and the Spanish-Latvian Carlos Garrote in K2 200 have also shown dominators of their elimination to take the triumph and the only direct pass to the final that they will palate on Saturday at 11: 23 hours.

In the 2017 World Cup, which is held until next Sunday 27 in the Labe Arena race field of the Czech town of Racism with the participation of 70 countries, the promising premiere of the Spanish selection has been reinforced by the results of the eight remaining ships that after passing through their respective abolitions have competed in semi-finals.

They have also been classified for the end A after passing through semi-finals:

- K1 1.000m: Roi Rodríguez, who in a fantastic final has secured the final in its premiere in a senior World Cup.
- K2 1,000 m: Francisco Cubelos and Iñigo Peña, who have entered seconds in the semifinal and third in the elimination by controlling the pass.
- C1 200 m: Alfonso Benavides has repeated in the semifinal the third place he has achieved in his elimination, thus ensuring that he is placed as a finalist in the World Cup.
- C2 500 m: Adriana Paniagua and Patricia Coco, third in the semi-final and fourth in the elimination.

In addition, they have been classified for the end B in 500 meters in K1 Begoña Lazkano, fourth in the elimination and fifth in the semi-final, and in K2 Camila Morison and Laia Pelachs, sextas in semi-final and elimination, and in C1 1,000 meters Daniel Durán, sixth in the elimination and seventh in the semi-final, in which he has obtained the only place for times to the end B.