The K2 500 of Ouzande and García and of Arévalo and Germade and the C1 1000 of Pablo Crespo will compete in the B final
PARIS, Aug. 9 (by EUROPA PRESS special correspondent Gaspar Díez) –
The Spanish boats of Antía Jácome and María Corbera in the women’s C2 category and Adrián del Río and Marcus Cooper in the men’s K2 category have qualified for the finals of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this Friday, which are being held at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium.
On the other hand, the K2 of Sara Ouzande and Carolina García and Carlos Arévalo and Rodrigo Germade, bronze this Thursday with the K4, and Pablo Crespo in the C1 1000 meters will compete in the B final, after finishing in sixth, fifth and eighth position in their respective semi-finals on the penultimate morning day of the Olympic competition.
In the first semi-final of the C2 500 metres, Antía Jácome and María Corbera finished second behind only the Chinese Mengya Sun and Shixiao Xu, current world and Olympic champions, and the top contenders for gold in the nautical complex 30 kilometres from the French capital.
Despite the unfavourable wind of around 20 kilometres per hour and being left-handed, Antía Jácome and María Corbera, world runners-up, offered a solid performance, controlling the rest of their rivals as they did the day before, when they also made it to the semi-finals of the C1 200 on Saturday, and will fight to add to the medal tally of the Spanish ‘Armada’.
The flag bearer at the opening ceremony, Marcus Cooper, will also be able to do so, along with Adrián del Río, second in their semi-final behind the Australians Tom Green and Jean van der Westhuyzen in a semi-final in which they went from less -fifth in the 250 metres- to more.
Unlike Arévalo and Germade, who showed their sterns to everyone in the same semi-final as Cooper and Del Río in the first meters, but who ended up exhausted in the final stretch and finished fifth, eight tenths behind the A final scored by the Germans Tom Liebscher-Lucz and Max Rendschmidt.
Likewise, the K2 500 of Sara Ouzande and Carolina García will have to compete in the B final after finishing sixth in a semi-final in which they were second halfway through the race, and in which the main candidates for victory prevailed, the New Zealanders Lisa Carrington, with 7 Olympic golds, and Alicia Hoskin.
Debutant Pablo Crespo completed the last of his series of semis in the C1 1000 metres, and will face the consolation final like Ouzande and García and Arévalo and Germade, the members of the Spanish ‘Armada’ in Paris who hope to continue collecting ‘metals’ in the waters just a couple of stops by train from the magic of Disneyland Paris.