On the
third competition day of the 2024 ECA Canoe Sprint, Paracanoe and SUP European
Championships in Szeged the first sets of medals were awarded in canoe sprint
and paracanoeing events, and SUP competitors fought for the European Champion
titles in sprint A finals.
Hungarian,
Italian and Polish teams were among the most satisfied ones today. Their
athletes won two medals each. The host nation enjoyed the national anthem
played in honour of Adam Varga, who set the fastest time in men's K1 500 metres
final (1:36.962) and won the European Champion title ahead of Fernando Pimenta
(POR), who was 1.260 seconds behind, and Timon Maurer (AUT), who was 1.403
seconds behind.
"It
was not so easy. My plan was to be very fast in the first 300 metres to have a
big lead and to reach the finish line first," said Adam Varga.
Anna Lucz
(HUN) was the second Hungarian winner of the day picking up gold medal in
women's kayak 200 metres final (39.543). Polish paddler Katarzyna Kolodziejczyk
was second (+0.737), and Bolette Iversen from Denmark third (+0.787).
Justyna
Iskrzycka (POL) set the fastest time in women's K1 1000 metres final where she
stopped the clock at 3:52.701. Hungarian Eszter Rendessy was second (+1.207)
and Melina Andersson from Sweden finished third (+1.654).
The newly
crowned European Champion said, "It was not very easy, but I love it, I
love to be tired after the race. It was a great race."
Her
teammate from Poland Oleksii Koliadych won the European Champion title in men's
C1 200 metres final after a tough battle until the last metres. Polish canoeist
set the time 38.614, which was 0.260 seconds faster than Spanish paddler Pablo
Grana in second place, and Zaza Nadiradze from Georgia finished third (+0.284).
Italy
celebrated two European Champion titles in men's K2 and C2 1000 metres events.
First, Samuele Burgo and Andrea Schera (3:11.133) won the men's kayak 1000
metres finals ahead of Bence Vajda and Tamas Szabo (HUN), and French duo
Cyrille Carre - Etienne Hubert, and just a race later Gabriele Casadei and
Carlo Tacchnini repeated their success in men's C2 1000 metres finals. Italians
won with the time 3:29.372. German duo Moritz Adam - Nico Pickert were second
(+2.267), and Moldovan crew Oleg Tarnovschi - Mihai Chihaia (+2.454) finished
the final in the bronze medal position.
Individual
neutral athlete Alena Nazdrova was the fastest in women's C1 500 metres A final
(2:02.749). She was over a second faster than her closest rival Giada Bragato
from Hungary, and 1.607 seconds faster than Maria Corbera (ESP) in third place.
In the
last canoe sprint final of the day, Portuguese representatives Iago Bebiano and
Kevin Santos won the European Champion titles for their excellent performance
in men's K2 200 metres final (31.580). Polish kayakers Jakub Stepun and
Przemyslaw Korsak were second (+0.317) and Hungarians Levente Kurucz and Mark
Opavszky (+0.433) third.
There
were two finals on the programme of the paracanoeing part of the European
Championships. Nataliia Lahutenko from Ukraine won another European Champion
title in women's VL3 event and enriched her impressive medals collection.
Ukrainian paddler set the time 59.058. Spanish Maria Jimenez was second
(+0.767) and French paddler Elea Charvet finished third (+2.090). In men's KL3
200 metres final, Juan Valle from Spain won the European Champion title and
defended the gold medal from last year's European Championships. In fact, the
podium was equal to the season 2023. Valle won the title ahead of Mateusz
Surwilo from Poland, while Ron Halevi from Israel took the bronze medal.
The
afternoon's programme included SUP sprint finals. Gold medal in women's A final
went to the hands of Natalia Novitskaia (AIN), who on Thursday took the
European Champion title also in the long distance event. In sprint final, she
won ahead of Kyriaki Logotheti from Greece (+1.364), and Marta Apanasewicz
(+2.177) from Poland. The top two positions in men's SUP sprint A final went to
the hands of canoe sprinters Andrii Kraitor, who now competes for Bulgaria, and
Vadim Korobov from Lithuania. Spanish competitor Manuel Hoyuela, the long
distance European Champion, was third. "I am super stoked to be back here
in Szeged. My first international event was in 2011 here in canoe sprint. I am
happy to have this combined event with canoe sprint. I feel this professional
vibe, thank you for this decision. My plan is to collect titles," said
Kraitor, holder of several medals from canoe sprint World and European
Championships.
Saturday
will start with paracanoeing finals and continue with 200, 500 and 1000 metres
finals. On Saturday, we will also follow SUP technical race finals and
inflatable race finals, as well as more 1000, 500 and 200 metres A finals.
The A
finals of the 2024 ECA Canoe Sprint, Paracanoe and SUP European Championships
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be streamed online exclusively at
Eurovision Sport platform www.eurovisionsport.com, while the Wednesday’s and
Thursday’s programme and non-televised events will be live on
www.youtube.com/CanoeEurope. The following TV stations will broadcast the
Championships between Friday and Sunday: MTVA Hungary, Ceska TV Czechia, JOJ
Sport Slovakia, RTP Portugal, RTVE Spain, RAI Sport Italy, RTV Slovenia.
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