Spain ends in Pau with misfortune... the disappointment of not having achieved medal and values the performance of young people

The 38 edition of the World Championship of Piragüismo in the ways of slalon and brave waters has concluded today in the French city of Pau with the feeling for the Spanish selection of the value of the performance of its young athletes and the disappointment for not having achieved the conscious medal of the suffering misfortune, which has left out of the finals two of its candidates to the podium: the Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut and Nuria Vilarraula, its last medalist. The 2017 World Cup, with 57 countries, has had the visit to the competition on Friday of the Minister of Sports of the Government of France, the double Olympic champion of fencing Laura Flessel, and the presence of Tony Estanguet, the Olympic pallist of C1 in slalon who will be appointed president of the Organizing Committee of the JJOO Paris 2014, natural of Pau.

The Spanish delegation has appreciated the good performance of its younger palists, including the outstanding role in Olympic tests of Catalan Miquel Travé, the 17-year-old who has been able to stand at the 15-year-old in the world at C1, and the Spanish-Leoness David Llorente, the twenty-year-old, ranked in place 27 in K1, both of whom were a six-year-old. In the closing day, the Spanish participation has been reduced to two ships, both in extreme kayak, for the first time included in the World Cup program, with the Basque Mikel Sarasola classified in position 8 in semi-finals and the Spanish-Latvian David Llorente, which has remained in the classification despite achieving position 22, as only one sportsman was available per country.

The octavos achieved in the end by the Basque Ander Elosegi in C1 of slalon and the C2 in brave waters achieved by the Galician Manuel Freire and the Spanish-Leoness Rodrigo Ramos, and the ninth in C2 of slalon of Dani Marzo and Jesús Pérez. One of the great setbacks of the Spanish team has been the Olympic champion in Rio Maialen Chourraut, who has been left at the gates of the final for seven hundred as it was eleventh in the semi-final in which the first ten had access to the final. Chourraut has invested a time of 105.47 seconds while Olympic bimedalist Jessica Fox, who hours later would be a champion, has been tenth with a chrono of 105.40 seconds. Also in K1 the Basque Irati Goikoetxea has ended in place 29.

In the semifinals also has remained the Catalan Nuria Villarrubla, the palist who recently obtained the gold at the end of the World Cup, and who has been left in the end with a penalty of 54 seconds, especially penalized by not getting between the sticks on one of the doors by touching one of them.

In C1 Annebel Van der Knijff has been a third-largest and Klara Olazabal has not exceeded the elimination.
In C1 the young Miquel Travé has held the 15th place, and the place 29 Dani March.
In C2 Mikel Sarasola- Aitor Goikoetxea have remained in place 17 and Luis Fernández- Brais Castro have been disqualified after suffering a turn when facing the final part of the tour.
In K1 David Llorente has finished at 27; Samuel Hernanz has occupied 29 and Joan Crespo in 38.

01 / 10 / 2017: Improvement of Spain in the final line of the World Slalon of Pau

The Spanish selection has concluded the penultimate day of the World Championship of Piragüismo in Eslalon 2017 with a better place of the Basque Ander Elosegi, eighth in C1, on a day without fortune for the other 5 boats that did not exceed the semi-finals, including the Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut, outside the final for 7 hundred. In the non-Olympic mode of strong waters Manuel Freire and Rodrigo Ramos also have octavos in the final of C2.

The Gipuzcoan Elosegi, who is ranked this season at 18 in the International Federation of Canoan Ranking, has made a good time in the fall of the final, in which the touch on one of the sticks of Gate 4 has penalized him with 2 seconds that represent a time of 100.19 seconds, and they keep him away enough to not opt for the podium commanded by the Slovenian Benjamin Savsek, who has won his first gold on the world dates, in which he takes for 6 medals.

Spain reaches two octavos in the end of C1 of slalon and C2 of bravas water

The Olympic champion in Rio Maialen Chourraut, in a downfall without penalties, has been left at the gates of the final for seven hundred as it was eleventh in the semifinal in which the first ten reached the final. Chourraut has invested a time of 105.47 seconds while Olympic bimedalist Jessica Fox has been tenth with a time of 105.40 seconds. Also in K1 the Basque Irati Goikoetxea has ended in place 29, with a time of 170.59, with 54 seconds of penalty.

The other two Spanish participants in C1 have held position 15 in the case of the young Miquel Travé, with a time of 101.03 seconds, and place 29 of Dani Marzo, with a record of 156.34, after suffering 54 penalty.

In the form of strong waters, the Galician palist Manuel Freire and the Spanish-Leoness Rodrigo Ramos (53.87 seconds) have been octavos at the end of C2, in which the several hundred spectators present on the channel have gone mad at the triplet achieved by the three ships of their country, who finally took the podium.

Tomorrow Sunday concludes the World Cup, which is disputed in the French city of Pau, with the tests of extreme kayak in which the Spanish participation in K1 will correspond to the Spanish palist-manchego David Llorente and the Basque Mikel Sarasola. Llorente arrives at World Cup after recently achieving the bronze medal in this test at the World Cup final.

29 / 09 / 2017: Grey Day for the "Red of Piragüism" at the World Cup of Slalon in Pau

The ninth place achieved by Dani Marzo and Jesús Pérez in the final of C2 of the World Championship of Piragüismo 2017 of Eslalon has closed the participation of the Spanish team in a day without fortune for the other seven ships of the national team that have not passed their respective semi-finals, including that of the Catalan Nuria Vilarrubla in the new Olympic test of C1.

Thus the most positive result of the day has been the C2 of Dani Marzo and Jesús Pérez, the Catalan palists belonging to the club Captain Nemo of Castilla y León, which have been ninth in the final with a time of 121.29 seconds, with 4 seconds of penalization. March and Pérez, who were classified for the final by getting the last place that gave access to it after having been ten in semi-finals, have shared the joy of fighting their second world final.

Marzo-Pérez, novios en C2 at the end of the World Cup of Slalon, on a day without fortune for the Spanish piragüas

The rest of the Spanish boats have been staying in their respective semi-finals, including the Catalan Nuria Villarrubla, the palist who recently obtained the gold at the end of the World Cup, and who today has been left in the end with a penalty of 54 seconds, especially penalized by not getting between the sticks on one of the doors by touching one of them. The other Spanish participant in the test of C1 Annebel Van der Knijff has been the third-largest with a chrono of 163.73 seconds, after a penalty of 54 seconds.

In C2 Mikel Sarasola- Aitor Goikoetxea have been left in place 17, with a time of 183.57, with a penalty of 58 seconds, and Luis Fernández- Brais Castro have been disqualified after having a turn when facing the final part of the tour.

In K1 David Llorente has finished at position 27, with a record of 98.68 seconds, with 2 penalization; Samuel Hernanz has occupied the place 29, with 98.99 seconds and 2 penalization, and Joan Crespo, in 38, with 107.71 seconds, with 54 penalization.

28 / 09 / 2017: Spain manages to put five piragüas in the semifinals of the Slalon World Cup in Pau

The Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut has now made the semifinals of the Spanish selection, which this morning has classified for the next round a total of five boats in the slalon mode of the 2017 World Championship of Piragüismo, which is disputed until next Sunday in the French city of Pau.

Next to the gipuzcoana, which has been fifth in the first round of K1 classification with 88.86 seconds, without incurring penalties, the canoists Ander Elosegi, also fifth with 85.37 seconds, have been classified directly for semi-finals in C1, after receiving a 2-second penalty, and Dani Marzo, fifteenth with 87.42 seconds, without penalty.

Maialen Chourraut embodies the classification of five Spanish vessels to semi-finals

In the second qualifying round in K1 women Iraqi Goikoetexea has been third (89.10, without penalty), which allows you to access semi-final while Marta Martínez (97.6, with 6 seconds of penalty) has been relegated to position 17, which leaves you out of the world competition.

In C1 men two of the three Spanish participants have secured in the first round the pass to the semifinal with the classification of Elosegi and March, to which the young Miquel Travé has joined in the second, in which it has been seventh, with 87.36 seconds, without penalty errors. On the other hand, this afternoon in the competition of the non-Olympic mode of strong waters will take part four Spanish vessels: Alan Padilla-Xavi Miralles, Dani Marzo-Jesús Pérez, Andrés Saco-Germán Jiménez and Manuel Freire-Rodrigo Ramos.

27 / 09 / 2017: The World Cup of Piragüismo-Slalom begins with Maialen Chourraut of leader in France

The Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut leads the Spanish team that will participate in the 2017 Slalon Piragüism World Championship, the Olympic mode whose tests will be held from tomorrow to next Sunday at the Pau-Pyrenees Brave Water Stadium in France, where the national team will compete with about twenty athletes, most of whom have been this season once or several times in the top 10, in search of a new medal to add to the seven achieved so far in world-wide dating.

The Spanish representation comes to the World Cup after achieving three medals this month at the Seu d'Urgell in the Final of the World Cup, obtained by the Catalan Nuria Vilarubla, gold in C1; the Basque Maialen Chourraut, bronze in K1, and the Spanish-Latvian David Llorente, bronze in Extreme. On the French channel Samuel Hernanz won a World Cup final and Chourraut has also won wins in Pau.

The 2017 World Cup will be the first to be held after the approval of the new Olympic program, which in the form of slalon has been conformed with the tests of K1 and C1 men and women. To achieve parity in male and female participation, the C1 of women has been introduced and the C2 of men eliminated. In the last World Championship in 2015, since it was not held in 2016 when the Olympic Games were held, Spain has obtained one of the seven medals in this competition with bronze achieved by the Catalan Nuria Vilarubla in C1. Previously, the Spanish World Seas have been in 2009 a silver in K1 individual - Maialen Chourraut- and three bronzes in K1 individual - Carles Juanmartí - and by teams in K1 - Joan Crespo, Guillermo Diez- Canedo and Carles Juanmartí - and C1 - Jordi Domenjó, Jon Ergüín and Ander Elósés. The other two third positions have been in 2010 with Jordi Domenjó in individual C1 and Maialen Chourraut in 2011 in individual K1.

On the aspirations of the Spanish team he goes to the highest international competition of the year with the guarantee of having obtained several medals in Copas del Mundo and in the European Championship, bearing in mind that the slalon is a sport especially established in this continent

In addition to the Olympic model of the slalon, the 2017 World Cup includes, together with the participation of patrols, the modalities of descent and extreme slalon, in which the Spanish selection also presents participation. Today, on the eve of the beginning of the Olympic tests, the results of the national team in patrols have been in men a sixth place in C1 - Elosegi, Travé and Marzo-, a seventh in K1 - Crespo, Hernanz and Llorente - and in women a fourth in C1 - Vilarubla, Olazabal and Van der Knijff- and a fifth in K1 - Chourraut, Martínez and Goikoetxe-. The penalties have punished the Spanish team, which, despite having the Olympic champion in Rio Maialen Chourraut, have not been able to hold a medal position in women while the men, who have been the fastest in K1, have been deprived of the podium by suffering six penalty points. In descent, Spain has today achieved the fourth position in C2 patrols with Dani Marzo- Jesus Pérez, Alan Padilla- Xavi Miralles and Manuel Freire- Rodrigo Ramos, and two sixth places in K1 with David Martínez, Xavi Miralles and Germán Jiménez, and Alan Padilla, Manuel Freire and Rodrigo Ramos.