To talk about marathon in the world of world piragüism is to talk about Spain. In fact, our country is one of the most respected, admired and encouraged by the public when it goes out to compete in international trials. Last year, on the quote of Ponte de Lima, the Spanish team managed to finish the event with the title to the best team and to get the desired Trophy Leon Reuter. There were 15 medals and the challenge, in this World Championship in Denmark was to try and retain the coveted statue of the wooden bull

But in the high competition are small details that separate the gold from the silver, and the first of the second, and it has been those hundred, that have led us and our palists to recommand the classification and place Spain ahead of the final classification. Only one point has separated us from the Hungarians (194 by 193 points). In this Danish championship the national team has finished the competition with five oars, four cans and five bronces.

But if there's a name that comes out of this championship in capitular letters, that's Manuel Antonio Campos. Tono, after last year could not achieve any gold, has been taken away and in the best way. He won the two tests of the C1 and, in addition, was imposed with much superiority, along with his partner Diego Romero, at the end of the C2. He already adds 10 world titles in the specialty and is running to become the legend of this sport, if it is not yet.

But in the Spanish canoe the quarry, and the work of the clubs works. Nerea Novo and Jaime Duro conquered gold in C1 Junior and C1 Sub 23 respectively. Darío Sánchez conquered the juvenile silver in C1 and Diego Piñeiro added a bronze in C1 Sub 23. To these results we must add the other bronze of the C2 Junior of Izan Velasco and Daniel Infantes.

In the senior canoes we must add the bronze of Manuel Garrido in the C1 and the silver of Fernando Busto and Diego Miguens in the C2.

As for kayak, the results have also been good. Eva Barrios achieved bronze in the short K1, María Martínez and Lidia Zornoza climbed to the second step of the podium in the K2 Junior and Rubén Castilla and Arturo Aguilar, on the last day of competition, achieved bronze in the same category.

To close the Sunday competition, the two Senior K2. In the girls it was Tania Alvarez and Tania Fernández who rounded the medallion with a great silver medal, as they competed until the finish line for the gold, which ended up taking it away from the Hungarian duo. In the men, it was the ship of José Julián Becerro and Adrián Martín in it concluded in better position (sextos), while Miguel Llorens and Alberto Plaza, a penalty in the last round, relegated them to the eighth place.