Junior Beatriz Fernandes won the gold medal in the C1 200 meters category at the U-23 and Junior Canoeing World Cup, which ends this Sunday in Szeged, Hungary, earning her third medal in the competition.
The 18-year-old athlete, affiliated with the Ponte de Lima Nautical Club, won her first gold medal in World Championships, after winning the C1 200-meter junior final, Olympic distance, with a time of 48.76 seconds, ahead the Hungarian Agnes Kiss, second with 49.05, and the Cuban Mailienys Caldéron, third with 49.20.
Beatriz Fernandes had already won the bronze medal in C1 1000 meters and the silver in C2 500 meters mixed, with Martim Azevedo, now climbing to the top of the World Championship podium.
Portugal had already achieved silver in the 500 meters K2 junior, Olympic distance, with Gustavo Gonçalves and Pedro Casinha finishing second, behind the Poles Jakub Stepun and Bartosz Grabowski, who completed the distance with a time of 1.28, 83 minutes. 32 hundredths faster than the Portuguese.
The four podiums already achieved constitute the best national result in history in these championships, after two medals in 2009, 2013 and 2021.
Portugal enters the U-23 and Junior World Championships with a record 21 canoeists, who secured the right to participate after good results in the Europeans in Serbia, with 16 crews on the podium.
Source: TSF
