Ivan Alonso of the Olívico of Piragüismo was proclaimed subchampion of Spain of K1... in a distance that is not his

The Spanish-manchego Paco Cubelos and the Spanish-Spanish Eva Barrios in K1 and the Galician Tono Campos in C1 have today proclaimed themselves senior winners in the 50th edition of the Spanish Winter Championship, whose competition has brought together more than a thousand palists in Seville this weekend, including Olympic medalists, world and European.

By clubs, the Piragüismo Aranjuez School of Madrid (2,226 points) revalidates the title of Spanish champion, which he obtained for the first time last year when he overbanished the Kayak Tudense that accumulated 12 consecutive victories.

The event, held in the waters of the Guadalquivir River as it passes through the facilities of the CEAR La Cartuja, has opened the season of regats of the 2019 calendar established by the Spanish Federation of Piragüismo, q this year marks the 60th anniversary.

At the end of male senior K1, the Spanish-Latvian Paco Cubelos (UCAM) has premiered the season by establishing a coup d'authority in the firmament of stars that are turning pyragüism into a sport of international success. After being established yesterday in the classification, the world's subchampion, who added his second title to the Winter National, today controlled the race from the beginning, alternated in the relays and applied a change of pace in the arrival to enter the winner of the Galician Ivan Alonso, second, and the Asturian Javier Hernanz, third, the only q held the pace.

Alonso, now in the Olívico, has signed an outstanding performance after paving from the beginning of the year in marathon races in Argentina and South Africa while Hernanz (UCAM), the bronze medalist in the 2018 World Cup at K1 5,000, has managed to keep one more edition on the podium of this test, of which the current champion.

In k1 women, the Zamoran Eva Barrios returns to the first place of the classification after a year of parenthesis, and together with her new partner at the Durius club, her countrywoman Laura Pedruelo, they carry for their land the title of champion and subchampion of Spain, respectively. The podium has been completed by the Asterian Miriam Vega of the Gijon Covadonga Culture Group.

In male C1, the Galician multicampeon Tono Campos (Breogán) has added trophy to his record of success by winning the most equal test of the competition, following which he entered his teammate Diego Romero and third the world subchampion of C1 in marathon Manuel Garrido of the Kayak Tudense.

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Everything in Seville for this important national event

The Centro especializado de Alto Erencia de Remo y Piragüismo La Cartuja de Sevilla will host this weekend the 50 edition of the Spanish Winter Championship of Piragüismo in which 1,091 athletes from 112 clubs from all over the national territory will participate, representing 16 autonomous communities.

The Spanish Winter Championship will be held in K1 and C1 in the master, senior, sub23, junior and paracanoa categories, in both women and men. The competition will take place in morning and afternoon on Saturday and tomorrow on Sunday, on the distances of 2,000 meters against clock in classimatoriums, in which they get the pass the first 70 piragüistas, and 5,000 meters in the finals.

In the senior national, sub 23 and junior will participate a total of 712 pyragüistas, belonging to 112 clubs, of which 487 are men and 225 women, as well as 24 athletes in the paracanoa competition. In the master category, there will be 379 pyragüists from 108 clubs, of which 332 are men and 47 are women.

The participating communities are Andalusia, Valencia, Murcia, Asturias, Basque Country, Navarra, Madrid, Galicia, Extremadura, Catalonia, Castilla, La Mancha, Castilla y León, Cantabria, Canarias, Baleares and Aragon.
In senior female K1 the test will have a wide participation including the Zamoran Eva Barrios and Laura Pedruelo, second and third in 2018, respectively. In C1 he will again try to renew the title Maria Corbera, which until two years ago competed in K1.

In men, he highlights the presence in K1 of Roi Rodríguez, fifth in K1 1,000 in the World Championship in 2018; Javier Hernánz, bronze in the World Championship in 5,000 meters in 2018, and current champion of Spain; Francisco Cubelos, second in the World Championship in K2 1,000; and Iñigo Peña, third in the National Championship last year and subchampion of the world K2 1,000.

In C1 they will participate as most prominent piragüists Adrián Sieiro and Sergio Vallejo, finalists of the 2018 World Championship in C2 1,000; and Manuel Antonio Campos and Diego Romero, champion and subchampion in the National in the previous edition, respectively.