Canoeist Fernando Pimenta will return to the marathon specialty during the Ponte de Lima World Cup, from September 29 to October 2, in which he will do three tests, including one with the multi-award-winning José Ramalho.
Pimenta, who in August, in a span of two weeks, won three medals at the World Championships in Halifax, Canada, and another three at the European Championships in Munich, Germany, will try, at home, in ‘his’ river Lima, to increase the collection of podiums in international competitions, which currently amounts to 121.
Olympic bronze in Tokyo 2020, in K1 1,000, silver in London 2012, in K2 1,000, will participate in K1 in the short runof only 3,400 meters, and in the regular marathon, of 30 kilometers, also doing K2 with José Ramalho, in a regatta with 29,800 meters.
At 39, José Ramalho is a legend of the international marathon, the fruit of seven European titles (in 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021, in addition to two silver medals, in 2009 and 2013), despite lacking the world title, which has escaped him several times, due to various misfortunes.
Even so, the Vilacondenses, who won the bronze in the last Europeans, is the current world champion of the variant. short runtitle that he will seek to revalidate on Portuguese soil.
In C1, Sérgio Maciel, European bronze in July in Denmark, is another of the Portuguese strengths: he was world champion under-23 in 2018 and ‘runner-up’ the previous year, a silver he had also won in 2016, at that time as a junior
Junior Francisco Santos is currently runner-up in Europe in K1 and has many favorites, such as Adriano Conceição, in under-23, European champion in 2021 and bronze in 2019.
Beatrice Fernandezworld junior gold in C1 200 meters, bronze in 1,000 meters and silver in mixed C2 500, with Martin Azevedo, will debut in international marathons.
Paralympic athlete Norberto Mourão, bronze in Tokyo 2020, will compete in adapted canoeing, in a test of 11,800 meters in the VL2 category.
The Marathon World Cups will bring together 890 kayakers from 36 countries.
Source: Observadora
