The Portuguese canonist Fernando Pimenta won this Saturday the title of world champion in K1 1,000 meters, fulfilling the main objective of guaranteeing a place in the Paris Olympics next year.
In lane four, Pimenta completed the race in 3.27.712 minutes, beating Hungarian silver medalist Adam Varga by 0.429 hundredths of a second and German bronze medalist Jakob Thordsen by 0.591.
This is the first Olympic classification achieved by Portuguese canoeing at the Duisburg World Cups, which bring together some two thousand athletes from 95 countries.
This is the third time that the athlete has won a gold medal in this category.
Pimenta, bronze in Tokyo 2020, also won bronze in the Canoeing World Championships, in Germany, in K1 500 meters, leading the series from the first to the last meter, winning in 3,28,097, beating the Swedish Matin Nathell, the only follower . With you till the end.
Source: TSF
