The canoeist Cuban Serguey Torres, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion in the two-seater canoe, won the silver medal this Sunday in the C1-5000 meters at the closing of the World Championship in Halifax, Canada.
Torres, the main figure of the Antillean men’s squad of this sport, set a time of 23:37.94 minutes, just behind the winner, the Moldovan Serghei Tarnovschi (23:37.85). The bronze medal went to the neck of the German Sebastian Brendel (23:55.18), as reported the website Hit.
In this way, the 35-year-old veteran canoeist won Cuba’s second medal in the event and gave the best Antillean performance on the World Cup goodbye day.
Previously, the largest of the Antilles had celebrated the victory of the duo of Yarisleidis Cirilo and Katherin Nuevo in the C2 at 200 meters, a couple that had finished ninth in the 500 meters.
This Sunday, Cirilo had two other podium opportunities, but he couldn’t finish them. In C1-200 she finished sixth among nine contestants, according to Hitwhich refers that the Cuban lacked strength and with a time of 50.92 seconds was left to the saga of the American Nevin Harrison (gold with 49.87), the Spanish María Corbera (silver with 50.54), the Chinese Wenjun Lin (bronze with 50.55) , and two other contestants from Chile and Canada.
Cirilo off the podium at the Halifax Canoe World Championships 2022
The race in the C1-200 meters was difficult for him.https://t.co/13XWVfl4GO pic.twitter.com/k3FIVTutDj— JIT Cuban Sport (@jit_digital) August 7, 2022
Then, the C1-5000, Cirilo was on the brink of medals by finishing fourth with a time of 29:09.94 minutes. Ahead of her were the host Katie Vincent (27: 50.88), the German Annika Loske (27: 55.529) and the Spanish María Corbera (28: 02.52), details the sports publication.
Finally, José Ramón Pelier, the other Cuban enrolled on Sunday, was left behind in the individual canoe at 1000 meters and with a time of 4:21.64 minutes, he was the last among the nine competitors. The gold was won by the Romanian Catalin Chirila (4:14.28).
However, Cuba’s performance can be considered positive because with only five athletes it achieved a title and a silver medal, to place 13th in the medal table. The fight was led by Germany (2-7-5), Hungary (4-1-6) and Spain (4-2-2), while among the parachutists, in which the Island did not compete, the advanced positions They were England, Brazil and Ukraine.
