Four heats to open the day before, a semi-final this morning, the first medal in the afternoon: as much as he has won, Fernando Pimenta still wants to win and, after having won bronze in the K1 500 of the World Championship (race that he usually does at the international level), he won another medal in distance with third place in the first of four decisive competitions that he will have in Munich, thus reaching 119 podiums in international competitions in a curriculum where the silver in the 2012 Games (K2 1,000 with Emanuel Silva) and the bronze in the 2020 Games (K1 1,000) stand out. . .
The final that was yet to be confirmed: Fernando Pimenta will discuss four medals in the Europeans after reaching the sentence in K2 1,000
Despite the good start, the canoeist has already crossed the 250 meters in third position, with a good advance in relation to fourth position but lagging behind in terms of the first two, no longer being able to enter in time to discuss a higher position. on the podium Pimenta finished with a time of 1.38.803, behind the German Jacob Schopf (1.38.012) and the Hungarian Adam Varga (1.38.237). It should be remembered that the Czech Josef Dostál won the World Cups, and the Germans went with Jakob Thordsen (fourth).
this was the Fernando Pimenta’s 19th medal in Europeans, with the peculiarity of being only second in this distance after the bronze medal that she had previously won in Belgrade (2018). Before, at the World Cup in Canada, the man from Lim had only won his first medal in K1 500.
One more medal for a collection of 100 words: Pimenta wins bronze medal in the K1 500 of the World Championship
After this podium in the K1 500, Pimenta will have three more finals in this European Championship in Munich that are included in the European Multigames that have been held in the German city since the 11th: K1 1,000, which is the distance that the athlete has covered the most in recent years and the discipline for which he is betting in Olympic terms, K1 5,000 ( after the frustration in the World Cup, when he had a problem with the rudder that prevented him from finishing the race when he was ahead) and the K2 1,000 with João Duarte.
Source: Observadora
