The first day of the 2021 ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe European Championships in Poznan, Poland, brought heats in canoe sprint and paracanoe events. The favourites did their job well and advanced easily to the next phases of the competition.
Czech canoeist Martin Fuksa managed
to produce the fastest runs of the day in men's canoe 1000 and 500 metres
event. Paddler who holds the European and World's best time record in the 1000
metres event, was closely followed by Italian Carlo Tacchini who was the second
fastest in the 1000 metres event and third fastest in the 500 metres long
course. Russian Kirill Shamshurin set the third fastest time in MC1 1000m and
Belarussian Maksim Piatrou was just behind Fuksa in the 500 metres heats.
Like Fuksa in C1, Hungarian Balint
Kopasz dominated in today's kayak heats, setting the fastest times in 1000 and
500 metres distance. Artuur Peters from Belgium and Bojan Zdelar from Serbia
had second and third fastest time of the day in MK1 1000m, while Joao Ribeiro
(POR) and Jakub Zavrel (CZE) managed to get closest to Kopasz in the 500 metres
heats.
Emma Jorgensen from Denmark was the
fastest paddler of the day in women's K1 500 metres event, followed by Volha
Khudzenka (BLR) and Danuta Kozak (HUN). Slovak kayaker Mariana Petrušova set
the best time in women's kayak 1000 metres heats, where Alida Gazso (HUN) and
Anamaria Govorčinović (CRO) came closest to her.
Germans Sebastian Brendel - Tim
Hecker were the fastest in men's C2 1000 and 500 metres heats, Danuta Kozak and
Dora Bodonyi from Hungary were the fastest today in women's K2 500 metres
event, Max Hoff and Jacob Schopf (GER) set the best overall time in MK2 1000
event and Uladzislau Litvinau - Dzimitry Natynchyk (BLR) finished the first
competition day in Poznan with the best time in men's K2 500 metres heats.
The opening day of the Championships
in Poznan also brought the first races in the paracanoe part. Leonid Krylov
from Russia set the fastest heats time in men's KL3, finishing ahead of
Ukrainian Serhii Yemelianov, the reigning Paralympic, World and European
Champion, and compatriot Artem Voronkov. In VL3 Eddie Potdevin from France
produced the best overall time of the heatsa, head of Austrian Markus Swoboda
and Russian Egor Firsov, while in men's VL2 Higinio Rivero (ESP), Norberto
Mourao (POR) and Igor Korobeynikov (RUS) showed the best form of the day.
On Friday, the first A finals are
scheduled: WK2 1000, MK4 1000, WC1 500, MC2 500, MK1 500, WVL3 200, MVL3 200,
WVL2 200, MVL2 200, WVL1 200, MVL1 200.
RESULTS:
https://timetable.europecanoeevents.com/index.php?gmt=2&gmt2=-120
LIVESTREAM:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/wzkaj/
*Friday's, Saturday's, Sunday's races
will be geoblocked due to the TV rights restrictions in Andorra, Belarus, Czech
Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Monaco, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
PHOTOS are available here (Photo:
Nina Jelenc)
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