The splendid Spanish pyragüism on the Castelldefels track

The Spanish Piragüismo team has today achieved a total of four gold medals at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, obtained in 200 metres by Teresa Portela (K1) and Carlos Garrote (K1) and in 500 by Roi Rodríguez (K1) and Marcus Cooper Walz and Rodrigo Germade (K2).

The Galician Roi Rodríguez, following the good results obtained at the World Cup and the European, has awarded the gold medal in K1 500 in the final in which he has maintained a new hand-in-hand with the Portuguese Fernando Pimenta, the rival with whom he has a great relationship... the palist of Tomiño (Pontevedra), with his elegant technique, has controlled the race until he has reached the goal.

The Galician Teresa Portela, winner of more than a dozen world medals, has starred in a spectacular competition in K1 200, the test in which she is a specialist. In order for his gestures to rise even more integers, he started from a not very good exit that led him to develop a fantastic rebound with which he first entered into goal. In the final of K1 500 he has been fourth in a very tight arrival with the Serbian Anja Osterman who ended up leaving him without the medal he would get later in the K1 200.

The K2 500 of the Marcus Cooper Walz and the Galician Rodrigo Germade have obtained gold in a portentous final of the Spanish. The national K2 made a good exit, they were dismissing most of the rivals from which only the French boat held as the main adversary.

The Zamoran Carlos Garrote has hooked up a good way out of the K1 200 test that has allowed him to stand at the front of the race, in which he has been untreatable and has ratified the exceptional moment when they are three weeks after he has proclaimed himself the champion of Europe. Today has been clear dominator,

24 / 06 / 2018: Successful day for Spanish Pyragüism at the Mediterranean Games

The Catalan Olympic Canal in Castelldefels, the headquarters that hosted the tests of piragüism in quiet waters at the 1992 Olympic Games, is the stage of the competition this weekend (RTVE image)

The five Spanish boats participating in the 19th Mediterranean Games 2018 have today won their respective eliminations and get the pass to the end of tomorrow, in which the pyragüism aspires to maintain its streak of successes, in K1 with Teresa Portela and Carlos Garrote in 200 meters and on the distance of 500 with Roi Rodríguez and the Portela itself in K1 and the Olympic champion Marcus Cooper Walz with Rodrigo Germade in K2.

The Galician Teresa Portela, participants in five JJOO - Rio, London, Beijing, Athens and Sydney- has been imposed on the K1 over 200 and 500 meters in which tomorrow she will search the podium three weeks after achieving fourth place in the K1 200 in the European Championship. Portela will paddle tomorrow Sunday at 10: 00 at the end of K1 500 meters and at 10: 40 at the end of K1 200.

The Spanish-Latvian Carlos Garrote also aspires to the podium in the K1 200 test, of which he is the current European champion after the gold medal achieved on June 10, Belgrade. Garrote will be fighting its K1 200-metre end at 11 a.m.

The Galician Roi Rodríguez also seeks to expand his successful palmarés with a K1 500 medal to round the good results obtained in recent weeks at the World Cup and the European Cup. Roo Rodríguez will hit the K1 500 final at 10: 10.

The current K2 500-meter world and European champions, the Marcus Cooper Walz and the Galician Rodrigo Germade, now aspire to incorporate the medal as the winner of the Mediterranean Games. Cooper and Germade will play the K2 500 final at 11: 20.