It was the girls who opened the competition in Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia, with the tests on K1 boats. In the first round, the top 15 classified went straight to the semifinal round. Laia Sorribes She was the best classified of ours in the first heat, 9.57 seconds behind the first classified, the British Mallory Franklyn, in position 25. Klara Olazabal finished in 28th place and Julia Cuchi in the 34th. In the second set, the Spanish were also unable to enter the semifinal round on Saturday, being Klara Olazabal the best classified in eleventh place (two touches), Julia Cuchi, in nineteenth place (she skipped a gate plus one touch), and Lara Sorribes finished in twenty-fifth place after skipping two gates and making contact twice with their rods.
In the boys, there were 20 kayakers who qualified for the semifinal on Saturday and two of us made it on the first descent. Miquel Travé finished seventh, without penalties, 2.84 seconds behind the Austrian Felix Oschmautz. He gets, in this way, his first classification directly to the semifinals in his first European senior. Joan Crespo youHe also got a ticket to the semifinals by managing not to penalize his descent and finishing eighteenth, 5.26 seconds off the best time in the test. had more problems Manuel Ochoawho made two touches and skipped two gates to finish the heat in 57th position. In the second of the descents, with 20 classified, another 10 more were sought for the semifinal and, on this occasion, Manuel Ochoa gave his best to get the pass thanks to a great eighth place penalizing only one touch.
In the afternoon, in the team events, the girls couldn’t find the necessary rhythm which, together with the seven touches with the doors, left our last classified team (9th) where the podium was won by France, Great Britain and Poland. The boys had it in their hands to fight for the medals and only the penalties prevented them from occupying a place on the podium. They started badly, with a touch at the first gate, but they recovered and, halfway through, they were in podium position, but a second touch at gate 12, plus one at the very complicated 21 (it was the gate in which the most penalized by all the participants of the 22 circuit) meant that Spain finished in seventh position, 6.78 seconds behind the winners, who were none other than the Czechs, followed by the Poles and the Germans. This Friday will be the turn for the canoes, where we opt to achieve good results for the finals on Sunday