Gold for Pau Echaniz in the K1 slalom canoeing patrol test

Euskaraz irakurri: Pau Echanizek urrea irabazi du eslalon piraguismoko K1eko patruilen proban

The Basque Team canoeist Pau Echaniz he has taken the gold in the European Games that are disputed in Krakow in the K1 patrol competition, accompanied by David Llorente and Miquel Travé. They have finished first scoring a time of 97.04. Followed by Poland and France.

After the conclusion of the test, the Polish team has carried out a claim for a touch of Echaniz. The Spanish Canoeing Federation has decided to give up the gold but finally the organization has ended up opting for leave things as they were at the beginninggiving the gold to Spain.

For its part, the girls’ team has touched the medal in the K1 patrol test. The trio made up of Maialen Chourraut, Olatz Arregui and Laia Sorribes has spent most of the test installed in third place on the podium, with a knock on gate two and a time of 114.87, but at the end of it, France has made a claim for a penalty of 50 that had been imposed on them, and the judges have agreed with the galas, passing these to the first drawer of the podium. Thus, France has taken the gold, the Czech Republic the silver and Germany the bronze.

Regarding the individual competitionheld before the patrol competition, the first of the members of the Basque Team group to get into the water was Pau Echaniz. The young paddler has not had much problem to sneak into the men’s K1 semifinalsmarking a time of 87.84 (+3.83).

Maialen Chourraut, he has not had to return to work on the Kolna channel after the first descent either. Lasarte’s is over seventeenth in the first qualifying, enough to avoid having to make a second descent, with the clock on 99.48 (+4.83).

Olatz Arregui, by contrast, has not had a good day on the Kolna canal. On the first descent it has ended in the rank 29 and in the second he has not entered the top ten positions that gave access to the semifinals, finishing in thirteenth position.