Ivan Alonso held a nice duel with the Danish Pedersen and the French Boulanger

Spain has claimed in Romania its status as a world power in the Marathon specialty: seven medals (one of gold; three of silver and three of bronze), also of five quarters, is the magnificent balance that the national combination has collected in these four days of competition that has lasted this first championship of the world of discipline after the pandemic.

The medals won on the last day of the event by Tono Campos and Diego Romero in C2 (gold), and the tandem formed by Tania Fernández and Tania Alvarez in K2 (silver), have allowed the Spanish team to occupy the fourth place in the general medallion, only surpassed by the untreatable Hungary (23 medals, 11 of them gold). Denmark (6) and Ukraine (4) are in this classification ahead of our palists, although they have less metals in their own, because they have obtained more world titles.

We had to wait for the final day of this World Cup held on the waters of the Arges River, in its passage through the Romanian city of Pitesti, to listen to the frenzy anthem on the podium. The great Tono Campos and Diego Romero were not willing to leave the land of Dracula empty and closed their world participation with a golden presea in the C2. The duet belonging to the CMDC Breogán made use of his favoritism to revalidate the crown he already got two years in Shaoxing.

Diego Romero and Tono Campos, happy, after hanging the gold medal as male C2 champions

The Galician palists had a heavy struggle for the head since the beginning of the trial with Poles and Hungarians. Campos and Romero managed to mark the rhythm they were most interested in and, after leaving the Kover and Horvath magiars behind, they put all the meat on the roast in the final section to also bend to Zuchora and Borgiel, who were unable to withstand the intensity of the grains in the sprint.

Diego Romero and Tono Campos, happy, after hanging the gold medal as male C2 champions.
The Galician duet crossed the goal with a time of 1: 56: 34, ten seconds before the Poles and 37 over the C2 magiar. Notable was also the performance of the other Spanish couple, Óscar Graña and José Sánchez, who obtained a fifth place, crossing the line of arrival with almost four minutes of disadvantage compared to their compatriots.

A lot was expected of Tania Fernández (Club Kayak Tudense) and Tania Alvarez (Club Breogán), and in faith they did not let down. Brilliant competitors every time the Pyrenees cross, 'The Tanias' fought to the last stellar of the race to hang the most precious of the metals in the female K2. His duel with the Hungarian Kohalmi and Rendessy during the 26 '2 km was tantanic. They had the gallegos to finally conform to the silver medal, after crossing the finish line at 5.26 seconds from the Magiar duet, which has made a leap of quality in Romania after having been two years world champions in Junior category. The bronze was for the South African Ward and Hockly.

Tania Alvarez and Tania Fernández celebrated the silver achieved in Romania at all levels

For Las Tanias it is the third consecutive medal to be won in the world championships, given the silver obtained in the World Cup of Shaoxing 2019, and the bronze achieved in 2018 in Vila Verde (Portugal). On the other hand, the tandem formed by Irati Osa (Itxas-Gaia ZUIAPK) and Arantza Toledo (Club Piragüismo Cuenca with Character) reached the goal in seventh position, with more than four minutes of delay compared to the avengers.

In the male K2, Miguel Llorens (SC and Deportiva Ribadesella) and Alberto Plaza (CP Channas Aventura- La Llongar) stayed at the doors of the bronze medal in a very tight final with the two French and Hungarian boats. The Urban and Candy gals were the fastest and most intense in those last meters of race and gold was awarded (1: 59: 03), exceeding for a few hundred to Boros and Erdelyi, silver; and to his compatriots Carre and Boulanger in a little more than a second. Llorens and Plaza entered the fourth position just 10 hundred from the bronze.

Fifteen seconds from the astur couple would enter the finish line the Gallegos Miguel Fernández and José Julián Becerro (Club Fluvial O Barco), conquering a fantastic fifth square, in a test that had 25 boats on the starting line. Finally, the couple Spas Dimitrov- Sergio Pereda held the 16th place in the K2 Júnior, a position ahead of Unai Amaltegi and Martín Miranda.

As a summary, the Spanish medalist in the Romanian World Cup was distributed as follows: Gold for Tono Campos and Diego Romero in C2. Silver for Tania Fernández and Tania Alvarez in K2; Ivan Alonso Lage in K1; and Jaime Duro in C1 sub 23. Finally, the three bronzes were awarded Iván Lage (K1 short); Dani Grijalba (C1 júnior) and again the palist of Aranjuez in C2 category júnior, ex aequo with his partner Juan Gómez.

The Leonese palist of the Oviedo Kayak- La Ribera and his companions Marcos González and Manuel Freire, both belonging to the O Barco River Club, participated during the weekend in the World Cup of Treignac (France), the last test of the season in the discipline of descent in brave waters. Fidalgo could not take out the thorn of the European disputed this summer on the Sabero-Alejico channel, achieving its best performance in the mode mass-start, where it ended in ninth position. In the classic test it would be twelfth, a minute and fifteen seconds from the current continental champion, the Maxence Barouh galo.