It has been a very busy second day of the 2021 ECA Canoe Polo European Championships in Catania. A total of 68 matches in senior men’s and women’s, and U21 men’s and women’s divisions were played today. The semifinalists in women’s U21 division are Italy, Germany, France and Great Britain.
On Saturday the first medals of the
2021 ECA Canoe Polo European Championships will be awarded to the best teams in
U21 age groups. While U21 men still have to play a couple of matches in the
morning, that will give a definitive answer who will be fighting for the medals
and which teams for placements between 5th and 8th place, we already have the
teams who qualified to the semifinals in women’s U21 division.
The teams who have a chance of
winning a medal in women’s U21 division are the teams who were among the
favourites before the championships. One semifinal match will be between France
and Great Britain and the second between Germany and Italy. The winners of each
semifinal match will then advance to the final and have a chance to claim the
European Champion title, while the losers will fight for the bronze medal.
Spain and Netherlands will play for fifth and sixth place.
While the medals in U21 age groups
will be awarded tomorrow, the decisive matches in senior men’s and women’s
division will be played on Sunday. In today’s matches of senior men’s division
the hosts - Italy - produced two wins against Lithuania and Switzerland. Poland
also had a good day with two wins against Austria and a tie with Portugal.
Great Britain had an impressive performance against Lithuania (10 -3), won
against Sweden (3 – 1) and tied with Spain (4 – 4). France also won twice against Portugal and
Russia, as well as Germany who defeated Sweden and Spain. Portugal and
Lithuania also celebrated wins today.
It was a good day for French senior
women’s team. First they tied with Switzerland (1 – 1), but had two wins in the
following matches against Spain and Italy. To conclude the day Franco also tied
with Germany. Germany won against Netherlands twice today and played 2 – 1 with
hosting team Italy. Italians had a good scoring day with a win against Denmark
(6 – 2) and Poland (7 - 4). Spain played twice against Poland and won on both
occasions (5 – 4, 8 – 2), but was defeated in a match with Netherlands.
Netherlands won against Poland, Great Britain against Sweden, but lost against
Denmark. Switzerland won in a match with Sweden 3 – 1.
On Saturday semifinals, finals and
final placement matches in U21 divisions will be in a spotlight.
Website: https://canoepolocatania2021.it/
Results: https://results.canoepolocatania2021.it/en
Photo: Hans Janssen
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