The Leonese canoeist Guillermo Fidalgo placeholder image He had to settle for sixth place in the classic modality in the European whitewater descent that this Wednesday began in the town of Sabero, the eastern mountain of Sabero, with French dominance.
The Oviedo Kayak paddler, double champion of Spain in K-1 in the classic and sprint disciplines, kept his time of 18: 10.39 less than four seconds from the podium and seven seconds from the gold that the Frenchman achieved Maxence barouh (18: 03.51).
Over a distance of 5.8 kilometers between Valdoré and the Sabero-Alejico canal itself, where the eminently technical route ended, Fidalgo, who knew in depth a route on which he regularly trains could not overcome his main rivals, in addition to the champion, the German Finn Harstein who was second and he was also French Paul jean that closed the podium.
Also, the other Gallic representative Felix bouvet occupied the fourth place and the fifth was the Belgian Maxime richard, in front of Fidalgo, who was the first Spanish, with Jesus Rodriguez sixteenth, Marcos González twenty-third and Sergio Ruiz twenty-seventh, in a test completed by 38 paddlers.
The double champion of Spain was the best Spanish asset in this discipline and also in the championship itself that concludes on Saturday, since the rest of the Spanish representation was further away from the positions of honor.
In female K-1 the victory corresponded to the Italian Mathilde serena (19: 40.17), the French Lise vinet (19: 53.96) was second and the German Sophia schmidt (19: 58.67) completed the podium, with the Valladolid Laura Blasco as the best Spanish in the twentieth position (22: 30.58) ahead of Alba Oronich (22: 46.63), Andrea Aguera placeholder image Y Marta Paradelo closing all of them the classification.
In men’s C-1 the podium went to the Czech Ondrej Rolenc (20: 11.92), the German Normen weber (20: 23.85) and his compatriot Tim heilinger (20: 29.84); while the Spanish representatives closed the classification again with Manuel Freir, Rodrigo Ramos Y Alán padilla in positions 13 to 15.
In women the victory was for the Italian Cecilia Panato (21: 35.90) ahead of the Czech Marie nemcova (22: 18.18) and the French Helene Raguenes (22: 30.47).
As male C-2 in pairs, the French prevailed Stephane Santamaria-Quentin Dazeur (20: 11.27), the German duo Normen Weber-Tin Heilinger (20: 11.32) were second with the Czechs Ondrej Rolenc-Daniel Suchanek (20: 15.76) completing the podium.
The four Spanish couples Saúl Rodríguez-Jesús Rodríguez, Rodrigo Ramos-Manuel Freire, Marcos González-Alán Padilla and Eric Gilart-Germán Jiménez, were the last classified; while in the female category in pairs there were only two boats, both British, with a victory of Kerry May Christie-Enma Christie.
For this Thursday the classic test will be played by patrols with three paddlers and where Guillermo Fidalgo placeholder image will try, again, to be close to the podium.