Nuria Villarubla achieved gold in the Europeans, category C1. The podium Spain, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom (RFEP Archive).

The Catalan Cadi Nuria Vilarubla away from relaxing after signing an unforgettable 2015 season has been proclaimed Slalom C1 European Champion in Slovakia. Nuria, the best in the qualifying sleeves disputed, achieved the pass to the final with the second best chrono to later be imposed in the final and to reaffirm herself as the continental queen of the specialty that will be Olympic in Tokyo 2020. The athlete of the Seo de Urgell, bronze in the 2015 World Cup, was imposed with a record of 124.91 on the Czech Katerina Hoskova (125.57) and the British Mallory Franklin (126.27). This is the fifth medal Vilarubla gets in European slalon championships

The female C1 will be Olympic in Tokyo 2020 (RFEP Archive).

The skillet of the SD Santiagarrak, Ander Elosegi was classified for the 2016 Olympic JJOO in the European Olympic Slalom Championship that has been held in Liptovsky Mikulas. Ander ranked sixth in semifinals and thus awarded the last free place for Rio 2016 in male C1, as the countries that chose it did not pass the cut of semifinals. The bronze medal was hung in the final. He had already obtained Olympic Square for Rio as he entered the final, where he was only overcome by the Slovaks Alexander Slavskovsky (99.87) and Michal Martikan (101.66). The Spanish won the third place with 2.69 seconds more than the winner. The building will participate for the third time in an Olympic Games, a competition in which it has won the fourth place in its two previous participations, both in Beijing 2008 and in London 2012, always in the C1 mode.

The gipuzcoan already with the ticket to Rio, rubricated its excellent paper with a bronze (RFEP Archive).

The Kayak Male Team formed by Samuel Hernanz, Joan Crespo and Unai Nabaskues hung the bronze medal at the K1 Slalom final of the European Championship Slovakia 2016. A medal that partially mitigated the disappointment suffered in the morning, when in the semifinals none of our kayakists could qualify for the final, and they saw the Dutch Sisters being awarded the only Olympic square. Neither Hernanz, 5th in London 2012, nor his companions will be in Rio 2016. Finally in the Slovak town of Liptovsky Mikulas has set the point and end to the classification of the C2 of March and Pérez in their struggle to reach the JJOO of Rio de Janeiro 2016.