The Marathon European Championships have closed with a clear Spanish protagonism... the team cited for the important quote of the season has achieved a spectacular brand of metals that has left our country with 16 medals and as a second nation in the medallion... if before the four races scheduled for this last day of competition the results were already good, with what was achieved on this closing day can be considered outstanding

And it is our palists who have claimed six medals in the four finals that were held on Sunday... the first joy was given to us by Jesus Machado De Miguel (Real Circle of Labradores) and Daniel Estébanez Santiago (Real Group of Covadonga Culture), who with his K2 beat, in a final of infarction, in the long youth marathon. The gold was played in the final sprint and there they managed to beat the Hungarian dupla for just over a second.

The joys were not going to stay there because in the test of the C2 Manuel Antonio Campos García (Club CMDC Breogan Do Grove) and Manuel Garrido Barbosa (Club Kayak Tudense) they conquered the gold by beating the Polish couple in 10 seconds and in one minute and 22 seconds to the other Spanish dupla participating in the test. Fernando Busto Bandín and Diego Miguen Sánchez (both of the Club de Piragüismo as Torres Romeria Vikinga de Catoira) hung a well-deserved bronze.

With the scheduled departure at noon, the long test of the senior K2 again had Spanish accent, the couple formed by Miguel Llorens López and Alberto Plaza Sagredo (both of the Cultural and Sports Society Ribadesella) suffered, but won, and did so for only 1.42 seconds to the gala boat and for 4.5 seconds to the Danish.

The penalty for this test was the fourth place achieved by the couple that make up José Julián Becerro and Miguel Fernández Castañón (both of the Club Fluvial O Barco), who remained 28 seconds from bronze.

The championship was closed with the senior K2 test and, otherwise, Spain did not want to say goodbye to it without getting on the podium. In this case it was the couple formed by Irati Osa Irureta (Itxas- Gain Zumaiako Urola Itsas- Adar Piraguismo Kluba) and Arantza Toledo Espinilla (Club Piragüismo Cuenca) who conquered the bronze, but which could have been silver or gold as they fell in the final sprint for three seconds before the Swedish winners and for little more than one before the always untreatable Hungarian dupla that form Renata Csay and Zsofia Czellai.

Spain ends up in the second medallion classified only behind Hungary which has set up 17. A total of four oros, four plates and eight bronzes, place our country as a global reference in this form of piragüism.