Historical bronze of the Zamoran Carlos Garrote

The Spanish palist Carlos Garrote has been recognized by the International Federation of Piragüism as the winner of the bronze medal in K1 200 metres of the Piragüismo European Championship, which was held last year in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, after the Hungarian Bence Horvath was suspended for four years after he was positive for EPO.

According to the International Federation of Piragüism website, ICF, Horvath was removed from the Olympic team of Rio 2016 by the Hungarian Association of Kayak Canoa due to a "atypical doping pattern", and after continuing to compete last year, he again gave positive after a trial out of competition on June 12.

The National Anti-Doping Organization of Hungary this week anticipated the four-year ban imposed on Horvath, 25, which has been stripped of two medals that he won at events after the trial date, both of silver, obtained at the K1 200 World Championship in Racism (Czech) and that he won at the K1 200 in the European in Plovdiv (Buldería).

As a result of the suspension of Horvath, Alekhejs Rumjancevs of Latvia ascends to the silver medal in the world competition and Russian Evgenii Lukantsov to the bronze. British Olympic gold medalist Liam Heath won the gold medal. In Europeans, Serbian Marko Dragosavljevic is promoted to silver and Spanish Carlos Garrote to bronze.

The Zamoran palist, who has proved to be one of the most in the form of the Spanish K4 500 project, will look for the classification for the European 2018 on the distance of 200 meters in the selective controls that will take place next week in the regatta field of Trasona, in Asturias.