The wildwater sprint heats at the 2021 ECA Junior and U23 Wildwater Canoeing European Championships in Slovenia did not bring many surprises. The representatives of Czech Republic and France were again the fastest in majority of the events.
Heats in eleven wildwater sprint
events were held today on the Soča River and Czech Republic and France each won
in four of today's events.
In junior part of the competition
Tereza Kneblova set the fastest times in women's kayak and canoe heats. In
kayak Greta Zietz from Germany and Helena Domajnko from Slovenia won second and
third place respectively, while in canoe French Laura Fontaine crossed the
finish line with second fastest time of the day and Anna Retkova from Czech
Republic was third.
In men's junior canoe Czechs again
occupied the top three positions. Matej Vanek was in front of Martin Kratochvil
and Karel Rasner. Rasner and Vanek joined forces in C2 to win in junior heats,
ahead of their teammates Salaj and Smakal, while French duo Tostain - Payen
finished third.
The only non-Czech win of the day in
junior age group came in men's kayak event, where Slovenian Lenart Stanovnik
took advantage of home course to win ahead of Czech kayaker Matyas Novak and
Swiss representative Luis Clavadetscher.
While Czech showed power in junior
part, France excelled in the U23 part of the competition. Etienne Klatt and
Charles Ferrion were first and second in men's U23 C1 heats, and Czech Filip
Janu was third. Luca Barone (FRA) was 0.80 seconds faster than Vojtech
Matejicek (CZE) and 1.09 seconds faster than Giacomo Abbiatti (ITA) in men's
U23 K1 heats.
French C2s were the fastest in men's
and women's events. Roussin - Roussin and Passernig - Perreau finished first
and second ahead of Slovenians Gradišek - Gale in men's C2, while Malinge -
Gireaud and Gaubert - Raguenes took first and second place in women's C2 heats.
Panato and Razzauti were third in women's C2.
German kayaker Christina Massini was
only 0.09 seconds faster than Czech Marie Nemcova in second place of women's
U23 K1 heats, and another Czech paddler Barbora Dimovova finished third. Marie
Nemcova also competed in C1 where she was the fastest. Elsa Gaubert from France
was second and Cecilia Panato from Italy third.
On Saturday, the championships in
Solkan will conclude with individual sprint finals and sprint team races.
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