Canoeists Kevin Santos and Teresa Portela won the gold medal in the K2 200m mixed race at the European Games this Saturday, becoming European champions and taking Portugal’s third gold in Krakow 2023.
Starting on center lane 5, Santos, 2022 European K-1 200 champion, and Olympian Portela finished the race in 34.260 seconds, ahead of Denmark’s Magnus Sibbersen and Emma Jørgensen in 0.312 seconds, and Germany’s Jakob Schopf and Lena Relings. , the third at 0.440.
The duo became the European champion in this event, as the Europeans are part of the Kraków2023 program.
This is the fourth medal in canoeing at the third European Games and the second in a day after Fernando Pimenta won silver in K1 500m. On Friday, Messias Baptista won gold in the K1 200m, where Francisca Laja took bronze.
Portugal now has seven podiums in Krakow 2023, namely three golds, two silvers and two bronzes, adding a gold and a silver in athletics and a bronze in karate to the savings in canoeing at Kryspinow.
The Third European Games will last until July 2 in Krakow and in the Polish region of Lesser Poland, in the program of 30 sports and 48 participating countries, including Portugal, whose delegation has more than two hundred athletes.