2020 / 11 / 07: Bronze Medal for Spain at the World Cup of the Segovian Darius Cuesta in Extreme

Tomorrow will be the closure with six Spaniards in search of more medals: Nuría Vilarubla, Klara Olazabal, Mira Lazkano, Miquel Travé, Luis Fernández and Daniel Pérez

The Spanish selection of pyragüismo has opened the medalero in the World Cup of Eslalon with a bronze medal achieved by the castellano-leonese Dario Cuesta in Extreme, in the penultimate day of the competition that has had in late K1 to the Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut (fifth) and the young Olatz Arregui (seventh), while four other palists have not passed the semifinals, including David Llorente, with square for the Tokyo JJOO, and without it to make the best time for the final, despite the 3.

Cuesta, belonging to the club Rio Eresma de Segovia, has obtained the third place in its second international competition, after crossing the goal with a triple tie with the French Benjamin Renia and the Brazilian Pedro Goncalves, who has left the latter out of the podium attending to the running of the preliminary round. The Russian Pavel Eigel has been the only one who has completed the unpenalised descent against the other three finalists: Cuesta, Renia and Goncalves.

Extreme is a way in which the palists, after an individual classification, are grouped into quartets that compete simultaneously in quarters, semi-finals and final. The kayakists, inside their boats, are launched from a ramp at a height of about 4 meters to then make a descent for about 60 seconds by drawing a pre-established tour with several doors. The first two classified in each round access the next.

Along with Ander Elosegi and Núria Vilarrubla - it will compete tomorrow - Chourraut and Llorente complete the national Olympic quartet that will go to the Nipona citation, for which the Spanish slalon team has reached all of Olympic squares, a milestone for the first time in history.

Maialen Chourraut has finished fifth with a single touch at the end of K1, in which the Basque young Olatz Arregui has taken her seventh place, after fitting in 6 seconds of penalty. Both had passed the semifinal in which another promise, the Catalan Laia Sorribes, had fallen, sentenced to 23 with 56 seconds of punishment.

In the male K1 the semi-final has been inaccessible to the three Spaniards: David Llorente and Joan Crespo, second and third ranked in the World past, respectively, and another debutante Dario Cuesta.

The Spanish-Leoness Llorente, after crediting the most rapid descent, has ended at position 12 damaged by 3 touches; its countryman Cuesta has ended in position twenty-third with 54 seconds of penalty and the Basque Crespo in the twenty-fifth with 104. In Extreme, in addition to the Cuesta medal, Mira Lazkano (at. San Sebastián) has reached the semi-final and his club partner Olatz Arregui has stayed in quarter finals.

2020 / 11 / 06: The Eslalon World Cup began in the French town of Pau in private

The Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut of the At. San Sebastián, has finished in the tenth place in K1, with a penalty of 2 seconds, while his club partner Olatz Arregui has left in place 16, with 54 of penalization, and the Catalan Laia Sorribes, of the Mig Segre, vigesimosta, with 102 points of punishment

The World Cup of Piragüismo in the form of slalon has today started in the French city of Pau with the participation of a hundred palists, almost half of the usual in this type of competition, although some of the main powers, including the Spanish selection, have come to a close an atypical season marked by the COVID- 19, whose pandemic forces this event to be held in private.

The national team takes part in the test that ends the 2020 season with a plateau of 12 palists, including three of the four classified for the Tokyo JJOO: Maialen Chourraut, Núria Vilarrobla and David Llorente, which together with the other palists have premiered today in the inaugural session in which all the participants went to their respective semifinals after an optional classification.

In the male category of K1 the castellano-leonese David Llorente, of the River Eresma, has achieved the best position of the Spaniards at the end of square 17, with 6 seconds of penalization; followed by another kayakist of the Segovian team, Dario Cuesta, vigesimosegundo lastrado by 50 points, and the Basque Joan Crespo, of the Santiagarrak, in the twenty-second, with 102 points of punishment.

In canoe C1 the Basque Klara Olazabal, of the Atl. San Sebastián, has obtained the best position of the Spanish ones at the end of the ninth, with 6 seconds of penalization; after it the Catalan Núria Vilarubla, in position 16 with 54 of penalty, and then the palist of the Atl San Sebastián Mira Lazkano, in the 17, penalized with 62 seconds.

In men C1 the Catalan Miquel Travé, of the Cadí, has achieved the second place with 2 seconds of penalty, followed by the Galician Luis Fernández, of the club Miño-Os Teixugos, ninth with 2 points of punishment and Daniel Pérez, of the Penedo Teimporta, thirteenth with 4 of penalization.

Tomorrow, the K1 semifinals are held with the participation in women of the Olympic bimedalist Maialen Chourraut (9: 54 hours), Olatz Arregui (9: 04h) and Laia Sorribes (9: 38h), which will give access to the final, from 12: 03 hours.
The semi-finals of K1 will also be held with Darius Cuesta (10: 11h), Joan Crespo (10: 45h) and David Llorente (10: 47h), and the final from 12: 40 hours. The various stages of the extreme CSL test will also take place with the inscription of the Spanish Olatz Arregui (14: 03h), Mira Lazkano (14: 04h) and Dario Cuesta (14: 27h).

2020 / 11 / 04: Maialen Chourraut leads the Red which is already in Pau for the Eslalon World Cup

Maialen Chourraut

The Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut leads the Spanish selection of Pyragüism, composed of 13 palists, who are already in the French town of Pau to fight the Eslalon World Cup, which will be held from this Friday to Sunday in private due to the pandemic we are suffering.

The national team is integrated in the male category in K1 by David Llorente (Rio Eresma), Joan Crespo (Santiagarrak), Dario Cuesta (Río Eresma), Maialen Chourraut (at. San Sebastián), Laia Sorribes (Mig Segre) and Olatz Arregui (at. San Sebastián), and in C1 by Miquel Travé (Cadí), Daniel Pérez (at. San Sebastián), Luis Fernández (Miñoos Teixugos), Núria Vilarubla (at (San Sebastián) and Lazarravara (at). It completes the Samuel Hernanz (at. San Sebastián) relationship that along with Dario Cuesta will compete in the male extreme test (CSLXM) while in the female one Arregui and Lazkano (CSLXW).

With the exception of the Basque Ander Elosegi, the Spanish team will compete in the World Cup with all the palists classified for the Olympic Games: the Basque Maialen Chourraut, the Catalan Núria Vilarrubla and the Spanish-Latvian David Llorente, which complete the historic full of Olympic squares achieved by Spain for Tokyo, which has ensured participation in all the slalon tests.

After the suspension of the entire calendar of sports events due to the coronavirus pandemic, the activities in the slalon mode in 2020 will end this weekend in Pau, with the World Cup dispute, which will be behind closed doors, after the International Federation of Piragüism (ICF), the Organizing Committee and the French Federation announced last week that the competition is considered a "professional sports activity for high performance athletes."

The last event in which the Spanish slalon team, led by Guille Diez- Canedo, took part was the European Championship, last September on the demanding Prague channel, in which the national combination, without the presence of its Olympic athletes, ended without medals with a very young team, which has put six boats in the finals: the women's teams of K1- sexto- and C1 - quinto- and the men of K1 - noon- and C1 - septimo- and in individual Mira Lazkano in C1 -septimo- and in-Joan-Cresmopo.