This Friday, the canoeist Fernando Pimenta faced one of the biggest floods of his sports career to qualify for the final of the K1 500-meter World Championship, which will be held this afternoon in Duisburg, Germany.
Pimenta, like the other eight athletes in his semifinal, was practically ready when thunder and torrential rain threatened to postpone, once again, the competition plan.
Given the storm alert, the organization decided, in the morning, to readjust the entire calendar for this Friday, postponing it for approximately an hour and a half: the Portuguese final will be like this at 1:04 p.m., Lisbon time.
Before doing so, Alex Santos and Floriano Jesús, already under the rain, qualified for the final of the adapted KL1 class and, with this, one of them goes to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Pimenta, who completed the race in 1.38.032 minutes, was second, between two distance world champions, the Hungarian Balint Kopasz, who also won Olympic gold in K1 1,000 in Tokyo 2020, in which the Portuguese got bronze, and the Czech Josef Dostal. .
Saturday is, however, the big day for the limiano, since he will have to be among the best six on the planet to reach Paris 2024 in his K1 1,000 meters.
The Duisburg World Cups bring together some 2,000 canoeists from 95 countries.
Source: TSF
