Emma Jorgensen, Dora Bodonyi, Max Hoff - Jacob Schopf, Sebastian Brendel, Liudmyla Luzan and Olesia Romasenko won two medals each on the last day of the 2021 ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe European Championships in Poznan, Poland.
Danish kayaker Emma Jorgensen will
surely remember the 2021 ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe European Championships
which took place this week in Poland. 25-year-old paddler won European Champion
title in women's 500 metres final and bronze medal in women's K4 event. In
addition to this she also became European Champion in the 200 metres distance
on the Malta Lake in Poznan.
"I'm not in totally top form,
but I am getting there for the Olympics. It's really nice to be there with the
girls and in the K1. It has been a really good day. Today the conditions were
really good. There was not that much head wind, a little bit in the last 200,
so you had to keep pushing. My arms were getting more and more stiff in the
last 200 metres, but I was just doing my best and continued to pace as best as
possible," said Jorgensen after the Championships.
In today's 500 metres final Jorgensen
beat Danuta Kozak from Hungary for a half a second, while Marya Povkh from Ukraine
picked up bronze medal. In K4 Denmark with Jorgensen on board finished third,
behind the crews from Hungary and Belarus.
Dora Bodonyi was part of the winning
Hungarian K4 together with Dora Lucz, Tamara Csipes and Anna Karazs and in
addition she also became European Champion in the 5000 metres event, where
Russian Elena Mironchenko and German Sabrina Hering - Pradler joined her on the
winner's podium.
It was a very successful day for
Germans too. Max Hoff and Jacob Schopf won the European Champion titles in
men's K2 1000 meters final, ahead of Samuel Balaž - Adam Botek (SVK) and
Ricardas Nekriosus - Andrej Olijnik (LTU). Hoff and Schopf finished third in
the men's K2 500 metres event, behind Belarussians Uladzislau Litvinau -
Dzmitry Natynchyk and Ukrainians Dmitro Danylenko - Oleh Kukharyk.
Sebastian Brendel won double European
Champion title today. First, he was unbeatable in men's C2 1000 metres final
where he paddled together with Tim Hecker, and Brendel concluded the European
Championships in style with gold medal in the 5000 metres event. In C2 Kirill
Shamshurin and Ilya Pervukhin (RUS) and Catalin Chirila - Victor Michalachi
(ROU) were also on the podium, while in the C1 5000 metres final Hungarian
Nicholas Fodor and Italian Carlo Tacchini joined Brendel on the podium.
Sandor Totka (HUN) was the fastest in
men's K1 200 metres final, beating the World record holder Liam Heath (GBR) and
Petter Menning (SWE).
To much joy of the local organisers
Dorota Borowska from the Polish team celebrated European Champion title in
women's C1 200 metres final. Liudmyla Luzan (UKR) and Olesia Romasenko (RUS)
joined her on the winner's podium. Both Luzan and Romasenko were on the podium
in women's C2 200 meters final as well. Olesia Romasenko paddled together with
Irina Andreeva and won gold medal, ahead of Hungarians Virag Balla - Kincso
Takacs and Ukrainians Luzan and Anastasiia Chetverikova.
Slovenia won its first European
Championships gold medal thanks to Špela Ponomarenko Janić and Anja Osterman
who were unbeatable in women's K2 200 metres final. Polish duo Dominika Putto -
Katarzyna Kolodziejczyk were second and Hungarians Anna Lucz and Blanka Kiss
third.
Martin Fuksa (CZE) celebrated another
European Champion title in addition to yesterday's 1000 meters success. This
time he produced the best time in the 500 meters final. Serghei Tarnovschi from
Moldova was second and Conrad Scheibner from Germany third.
Spanish canoeists Alberto Pedrero and
Pablo Grana were the winners of the men's C2 200 metres final, Arsen Sliwinski
- Michal Lubniewski (POL) were second and Henrikas Zustaustas - Vadim Korobov
(LTU) third.
In the 5000 metres kayak final
Hungarian representative Balint Noe celebrated a win ahead of Belarussian Aleh
Yurenia and Portuguese Fernando Pimenta, while Volha Klimava (BLR), Dora
Horanyi (HUN) and Liudmyla Babak (UKR) won medals in women's C1 5000 metres
race.
Hungary was the most successful
participating nation of the European Championships, winning a total of 18
medals, nine gold, seven silver and wo bronze medals. In the canoe sprint part
of the European Championships 20 different countries won at least one medal,
while in the paracanoe part of the competition eleven countries won
medals.
ECA Canoe Sprint European
Championships will return to Poznan in the end of June, when the Malta Lake
will host the 2021 ECA Junior and U23 Canoe Sprint European Championships.
RESULTS: https://timetable.europecanoeevents.com/index.php?gmt=2&gmt2=-120
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