Olympian Fernando Pimenta finished this Sunday with four medals in the second leg of the Canoe World Cup, which took place in Poznan, Poland, rising to the podium in all competitions he participated in.
Born in Ponte Lima, the canoeist finished competing with a silver medal in the K1 5,000m race, a distance he had to retire from at the World Cup in Szeged, Hungary, 15 days ago after breaking a rudder.
Today Pimenta covered the distance in 21.23.72 minutes, 24.38 seconds behind the winner, Dane Mads Brandt Pedersen, who took the gold.
Norway’s Jon Amund Vold rounded out the podium to win bronze, with a score of 21.31.67, in a K1 5,000 meter race in which also Portuguese João Duarte placed 13th.
A few hours earlier, Fernando Pimenta won the gold medal in the K2 500 meters mixed event together with Teresa Portela, an improvement on the result achieved in Szeged.
Two weeks after taking bronze in the first stage, in Hungary, the Portuguese duo secured victory in 01:42:33 minutes, beating Danes Gustav Bock and Julie Funch in 1.98 seconds, seconds, and in 2.41 seconds surpassed the Ukrainians Oleksandr Zaitsev and Nataliia Dokiienko. , third.
Also today, Pimenta won silver in the K1 500 meters, in which he won the gold medal two weeks ago, finishing 01:41.87 minutes, 32 seconds behind the winner, Czech Josef Dostal.
On Saturday, in the K1 1,000m distance, in which he won a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Fernando Pimenta won the silver medal, completing the race in 03.44.56 minutes, 1.62 seconds behind the winner, the Hungarian Adam Varga, while compatriot Balint Kopasz was third.
In the K1 1,000 meters, where the podium was exactly the same as that of the first round of the World Cup, in Szeged, the Portuguese João Duarte was fifth in the final C, that is, out of the battle for medals.
In the women’s final of K1 500, which was discussed today, Teresa Portela was at the ‘door’ of the medals, fourth, with a score of 1.56.27 minutes, a short distance from the Croatian Anamaria Govorcinovic (1.55.87 ) who won the bronze.
Denmark’s Ema Jorgensen, who clocked 1:53.57, 2.70 seconds less than Portela, won the gold medal, and Sweden’s Linnea Stensil (1:55.38) took silver.
After 15 medals in international competitions in 2022, Fernando Pimenta continues this season with seven podiums in World Cup competitions.
The qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will take place in Duisburg, Germany, between August 23 and 27.
Source: DN
