World Olympic Sprint in Milan: The Day of Glory for Spanish Piragüism

World Olympic Sprint in Milan: The Day of Glory for Spanish Piragüism

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Corbera, Crespo and Rodríguez will fight for more medals for Spain (Photo courtesy of the Royal Spanish Federation of Piragüismo)

Today is a day of glory for Spanish Pyragüism, where four medals have been obtained in the Olympic Sprint World Championship, including the historic gold of the female K4 500 for the first time in history. Another good handful of palists from the Spanish delegation have competed on the water sheet of the track of the Milanese club of Idroscalo.

The Madrid Maria Corbera got into the final of the C1 500 after winning in its semifinal series, did it with a little more than half a second over the Italian Della Giustina, one of which will fight with Corbera at the end of tomorrow at 14: 34 hours, the other two favorites will be the Canadian Vicent and the Ukrainian Lunzan.

He also got into a final, in this case of Olympic distance, Pablo Crespo. The Galician won the second position of his semifinal and will fight for everything in the C1 1000, yes, where Fuksa is the great favorite of gold and silver will fight it between the Moldovan Tarnovschi and the Greek Dimopoulos, although the one in the City of Pontevedra will want to give it all in a final that was already given a year ago at the Paris Games.

The other one who managed to enter an Olympic end was the Galician Roi Rodríguez. The Kayak Tudense entered third of its semi-final of the K1 1000 meters, the test par excellence of these championships along with that of the K4 500, and will fight for the maximum tomorrow from 14: 56 hours against palists of the size of the Pimenta, the Czech Dostal or the Argentine Vernice.