The Catalan Quim Fontane new champion of the world of piragüism

The Spanish Quim Fontané has proclaimed himself the world champion of pyragüism in the Free Style modality by reaching the best score in the third and final round of the senior final of K1 in the 2017 World Cup, which has concluded this early Spanish hour in the Argentine province of San Juan with the participation of more than 160 palists from 25 countries.

Free style is a modality that consists of taking advantage of the rubles and waves of the current to perform in them a series of figures, whose value is punctured according to their spectacularity and difficulty. The end of the World Cup has been developed in three 45-second sleeves during which the competitor had to make figures with the highest purity executed with the highest speed.

23-year-old Fontané, belonging to the Salter team of Girona, has taken the leadership of the trial from the American Dane Jackson - world champion in K1 and C1 - by achieving 1,718 points in the third and last round, with the result that he has awarded his first gold medal in the senior category. The Catalan palist is a bicampoon of absolute Europe and in his young stage he has managed to proclaim himself as the world's subchampion and continental champion.

In senior, his sister Nuria Fontané - a junior world sub-champion in 2012 - has had to settle for number 20 in the final quarter while Ander de Miguel, of Piragüismo Pamplona, has remained in place 22 in preliminary. In the Júnior K1 category in the only final with Spanish presence the Catalan Ona Baro, of the Sort club, has been fifth; in addition Adriá Ovando and Kira Carreto, both of the Sort, have finished six in semi-finals, and the palists of the Salter Jan Mutada and Pol Monserrat have occupied positions 16 and 25 in preliminary, respectively.