Once again Serguey grows up in a World Cup. Photo: JIT.
The Tokyo 2020 champion Serguey Torres won the silver medal this Sunday in the C1-5000 meters, during the last date of the Halifax 2022 World Canoe Speed Championship, in Canada.
Sport icon on the planet, The Cuban crossed the finish line with 23:37.94 minutes in a bloody fight with the winner, the Moldovan Serghei Tarnovschi (23:37.85). and the tan German Sebastian Brendel (23:55.18).
Note the time difference between first and second place, which expresses the sports excellence of the 35-year-old from Sancti Spiritus.
That was the second medal of the Cuban delegation made up of five athletes to the fair that honored around half a thousand competitors, also kayakers and paracanoists.
Yarisleidis Cirilo could not this time. Photo: Planet Canoe.
Cyril off the podium today
This Sunday, in his strongest test, the Cuban star Yarisleidis Cirilo was left without medals in the C1-200 meters, as well as in the C1-500 meters.
The Cuban lacked strength and finished sixth among nine contestants in the final A of the first modality.
Her time of 50.92 seconds was beaten by the American gold Nevin Harrison (49.87)the silver Spanish María Corbera (50.54), the tan Chinese Wenjun Lin (50.55), and two other contestants from Chile and Canada, in that order.
yarisleidis, who won this Saturday along with Katherin Nuevo, the title of the C2-200 meterswas given a favorite pre-competition by specialists from the International Federation to climb the podium.
In the analysis published by the official ICF website, today’s winner and queen of Tokyo 2020 also appeared, the host Katie Vincent, who anchored fifth with 50.63, and the Ukrainian Liudmyla Luzan (54.29), last.
In his latest test, the C1-5000, Cirilo was fourth with a time of 29:09.94 minutespreceded by the host Katie Vincent (27:50.88), the German Annika Loske (27:55.529) and the Spanish María Corbera (28:02.52).
Another Cuban present at the farewell day, José Ramón Pelier, (4:21.64 minutes)was displaced to the cold basement among nine competitors in the individual canoe at 1000 meters, which was won by the Romanian Catalin Chirila (4:14.28)
With a title and a silver, Cuba finished in 13th place by number of medals, among 26 nations. Germany (2-7-5), Hungary (4-1-6) and Spain (4-2-2) took the podium and England, Brazil and Ukraine followed suit in the parachute contest.
(With information from JIT)