This Sunday, Portugal’s Fernando Pimenta won the European title for the third time in the K1 5000m at the European Sprint Canoeing Championships in Szeged, Hungary.
Pimenta, 34, won his third medal of the championships after silver in the K1 500 and bronze in the K1 1000, completing the regatta in 20:26,749 minutes, beating Hungary’s Adam Varga, runner-up in the K1 1000 at Tokyo 2020. place with a score of 0.541 seconds, and Dane Mads Brandt Pedersen, the current world champion in the K1 5000, is third with a score of 0.685.
The canoeist from Ponte de Lima, who finished second at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the K2 1000 distance and bronze medalist in the K1 1000 distance in Tokyo in 2020, regained the European scepter in this distance, which he won in 2016 and 2022 and in which he was also world champion. champion 2017 and 2018.