Pablo Martínez, an international finalist with Spanish C4, has stressed that the ships that will enter European refishing will be the first two, therefore the options are to be left first or second

The pre-Olympic European pyragüism in the esprint mode begins tomorrow in the Hungarian city of Szeged with the participation of 5 of the 6 Spanish boats looking for a place for the JJOO: Isabel Contreras in K1 500; María Corbera in C1 200; Sara Ouzande and Carolina García in K2 500; David Barreiro in C1 1000; and Tano García and Pablo Martínez in C2 1000.

The finals for all of them will be on Thursday day 13, when they also enter into competition with a direct end Antía Otero and Antita Jácome at C2 500. The individual boats will have one last chance to get the pass for Tokyo in the global classification, next week in Barnaul (Russia).

The Spanish Pyragüismo thus faces a week that presents two transcendental dates, with the continental pre-Olympic of esprint next to the European classification of paracanoe (13 and 14 May) with 5 boats trying to obtain the passport for the Paralympic Games in the distance of 200 meters: Silvia Elvira in KL3, Inés Felipe in KL2, Adrián Castaño in KL1, and Adrián Mosquera and Javier Reja in VL3.

In addition, from 14 to 16 Szeged will host the first Esprint World Cup, in which all the ships of the Spanish army classified for Tokyo will be tasted: Teresa Portela (K1 200), Paco Cubelos and Iñigo Peña (K2 1000), Saul Craviotto, Marcus Cooper Walz, Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade (K4 500), and Craviotto and Arévalo, who will make the K1 in JOO.