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European canoe sprinters showed power in Samarkand

European canoe sprinters showed power in Samarkand 27.8.2024

Canoe sprinters contested World Champion titles for the first time in history on Asian soil. Uzbekistan, more precisely historic Samarkand, hosted this year's canoe sprint World Championships. Athletes fought for the medals in non-Olympic disciplines and representatives of European nations won majority of the medals.


Hungarian team once again topped the medals table with a total of eight medals, two golds, four silvers and two bronze medals. Emese Kohalmi had a good championships, winning three medals over three competitions days. She was crowned World Champion in women's 1000 and 5000 metres finals and was a part of mixed K4 500 metres crew that won silver medal.
 
Portugal had a successful championships, celebrating six medals in Uzbekistan. They won two gold, three silver and one bronze medal. Messias Baptista was the one winning two golds, one in men's 200 metres final and the second in mixed K2 500 metres final togehter with Teresa Portela. Both Portela and Baptista were members of mixed K4 crew with Pimenta and Laia, that won bronze medal in 500 metres event. Portela and Francisca Laia won silver medal in women's K2 200 metres event. Fernando Pimenta won two silver medals in men's K1 500 and 5000 metres event in addition to the mixed K4 bronze medal.
 
The 2024 Olympic champion Josef Dostal, who was the best in 1000 metres event of the Paris Olympic Games, was crowned World Champion in the 500 metres distance, and won bronze medal in mixed K2 500 event, where he joined forces with his fiancée Anezka Paloudova. Martin Fuksa, Czech canoeist who was crowned Olympic Champion in the 1000 metres event, was second this time, finishing the race behind Moldova's Serghei Tarnovschi, who was also on the podium in the 5000 metres event, finishing second there.
 
Poland concluded the chamnpionships with three medals, two of them gold, thanks to Oleksii Koliadych who was the best in men's C1 200 metres final, and Wiktor Glazunow, who was the best in the 5000 metres event. Jakub Stepun added silver in men's K1 200 metres final.
 
Ukraine celebrated two golds in women's canoe events. Liudmyla Luzan was the fastest in women's C1 500 metres event and Liudmyla Kuklinovska in women's K1 200 metres final. Yurii Vandiuk - Pavlo Borsuk won bronze in men's C2 1000 metres final, and Valeriia Tereta was third in the longest 5000 metres event in women's C1.
 
In the last event of the championships Mads Brandt Pedersen won gold medal in men's K1 5000 metres race, which was the second medal for Denmark, as Bolette Nyvang Iversen picked up bronze in women's K1 200 metres final.
 

RESULTS

 

WK1 1000 m

1. Emese Kohalmi HUN

2. Maryna Litvinchuk AIN

3. Melina Andersson SWE

 

MK2 1000 m

1. Mikita Borykau - Aleh Yurenia AIN

2. Joakim Lindberg - Martin Nathell SWE

3. Felix Daniel Frank - Martin Hiller GER

 

WC1 1000 m

1. Alena Nazdrova AIN

2. Giada Bragato HUN

3. Xina Jiang CHN

 

MC2 1000 m

1. Zakhar Petrov - Ivan Dmitriev AIN

2. Balazs Adolf - Daniel Fejes HUN

3. Yurii Vandiuk - Pavlo Borsuk UKR

 

XK2 500 m

1. Teresa Portela - Messias Baptista POR

2. Volha Khudzenka - Dzmitry Natynchyk AIN

3. Josef Dostal - Anezka Paloudova CZE

 

MC1 500 m

1. Serghei Tarnovschi MDA

2. Martin Fuksa CZE

3. Catalin Chirila ROU

 

WC1 500 m

1. Liudmyla Luzan UKR

2. Maria Jose Mailliard CHI

3. Mariya Brovkova KAZ

 

MK1 500 m

1. Josef Dostal CZE

2. Fernando Pimenta POR

3. Uladzislau Kravets AIN

 

WK2 200 m

1. Svetlana Chernigovskaya - Anastasiia Dolgova AIN

2. Teresa Portela - Francisca Laia POR

3. Volha Khudzenka - Maryna Litvinchuk AIN

 

XC2 500 m

1. Alexey Korovashkov - Ekaterina Shliapnikova AIN

2. Kincso Takacs - Jonatan Daniel Hajdu HUN

3. Uladzislau Palechko - Inna Nedelkina AIN

 

WK1 200 m

1. Liudmyla Kuklinovska UKR

2. Anastasiia Dolgova AIN

3. Bolette Nyvang Iversen DEN

 

MK1 200 m

1. Messias Baptista POR

2. Jakub Stepun POL

3. Carlos Garrote ESP

 

WK2 200 m

1. Yulia Trushkina - Inna Nedelkina AIN

2. Daniela Cociu - Maria Olarasu MDA

3. Shengnan Xu - Jingjin Xiang CHN

 

MC1 200 m

1. Oleksii Koliadych POL

2. Pablo Grana ESP

3. Zaza Nadiradze GEO

 

XK4 500 m

1. AIN (Kushner, Khudzenka, Kravets, Natynchyk)

2. HUN (Ujfalvi, Kohalmi, Opavszky, Balogh)

3. POR (Portela, Pimenta, Baptista, Laia)

 

XC4 500 m

1. AIN (Shtil, Shliapnikova, Petrov, Shtyl)

2. AIN (Bardanouskaya, Paleshko, Asetski, Klimava)

3. ESP (Oliveira, Yarchevska, Fontan, Sieiro)

 

WC1 5000 m

1. Maria Jose Mailliard CHI

2. Annika Loske GER

3. Valeriia Tereta UKR

 

MC1 5000 m

1. Wiktor Glazunow POL

2. Serghei Tarnovschi MDA

3. Balazs Adolf HUN

 

WK1 5000 m

1. Emese Kohalmi HUN

2. Maryna Litvinchik AIN

3. Miriam Vega ESP

 

MK1 5000 m

1. Mads Brandt Pedersen DEN

2. Fernando Pimenta POR

3. Joakim Lindberg SWE

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