Benavides finished that test in fourth position, but the subsequent sanction and disqualification by doping of Lithuanian Jefgenij Shuklin has caused our sportsman to receive the well-deserved bronze medal that, in addition to the 2012 Olympic Presea, becomes a new victory of clean sport (Photo of the RFEP)

Sete Benavides continues to expand his great palmarés with a medal that comes more than nine years late, but ends up doing justice to a sports career full of successes in which sportsmanship has prevailed. The Spanish canoist already holds the C1 200 bronze medal for the 2014 Moscow World Championship.

Receiving the medal nine years later is always a joy, but it has taken the opportunity to enjoy the moment of the podium of a world championship and that is not going to give it back to me... the truth is that at least it is shown that the traps have no place in the sport and that is very important... I am very happy and I hope that I can soon enjoy the 2013 European medal, "says Sete, analyzing what it means for him to receive this presea.

At the international level, Sete Benavides has been four times the European subchampion and has four medals in World Championships and six in European Championships, as well as a bronze in the European Games in Minsk 2019.