Two hours, two finals, one more day in a race built on medals: fernando pepper assured this afternoon (Lisbon time, tomorrow in Canada) the classification for the decisive races of K1 500 and K1,000 of the World Championships that take place from Wednesday in Halifax.
In the first race of the day, the Portuguese won his semi-final (his second) in K1 500 with a time of 1.42.78 at a faster pace until the middle that allowed him to manage the advantage until finishing the race ahead of the Italian Mauro Crenna (1.43.32) and the Danish Thorbjorn Rask (1.43.35). Frenchman Francis Mouget (1.43.59), Slovakian Milan Dorner (1.45.36) and Japanese Ryuji Matsushiro (1.46.47) were relegated to the B distance final, while Dutchman Albart Flier (1.47.28) and the Israeli Ilya Podpolnyy (1.48). .50) will be in Final C. All of these races will take place this Saturday.
The Spaniard Marcus Cooper, the German Jakob Thordsen, the Czech Josef Dostal (from the semi-final 1), the Australian Jean Westhuyzen, the Swedish Dennis Kernen and the Pole Wiktor Leszczynski (from the final semi-final 3). remember last year João Ribeiro was proclaimed runner-up in the world in distance, finishing the race just behind Belarusian Mikita Borykau.
Two hours later, in the K1 1000, where in 2021 he was proclaimed world champion for the second time among five medals that he has already won at distance in World Championships, Fernando Pimenta once again demonstrated his superiority win the first of three semi-finals and secure a place in the decision.
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Source: Observadora
