“I was going with the Golondrosu thing and the truth is that once you are there it is not scary. It is a very beautiful race like the Piloña and it is a pity that the girls do not dare to compete now that they leave the same place as the boys, because, apart from the fact that it may be a little ‘dangerous’, it has a great time, going with the intrigue of the rabiones and the steps that there are and everything that any race of these entails ”, said the young paddler of the Club Los Rapids-Jaire Adventure.
The 56th Edition of the Descent of Alto Sella-Memorial Máximo Llamedo Olivera, organized by the Club Los Rápidos de Arriondas together with the Club Sirio-La Llongar, played on Sunday afternoon, was the second round of scoring for the “Stormkayaks Grand Prize”. Cash prizes were distributed among the first three absolute crews, counting both races (Alto Sella and Piloña-Sella). In addition, several flying goals were established that also carry a prize. In total 2,300 euros.
The victory in the Alto Sella was for the K-2 of the El Sella Canoeing Club, from Ribadesella, manned by Pedro Gutiérrez and Javier López González, followed by the cangueses of the Club Piraguas Sirio-La Llongar Óscar Martínez del Cueto and Álvaro García Bueno, these, in the end, winners of the “Stormkayaks Grand Prize” on a team boat. The third place smiled at the equally cangueses Luis Amado Pérez Blanco and Abel García Cimentada. The steps through El Puentón and El Golondrosu brought together a number of fans eager to enjoy the skill of the canoeists.
In the K-1 modality, victory for Walter Bouzán Sánchez from Rio de Janeiro (Club Canoeing El Sella), ahead of Argentine Franco Balboa and, in third position, of the Galician living in Asturias Álvaro Fernández Fiuza, this also winner of the Grand Prize Stormkayaks, in the aforementioned individual kayak category. For his part, in the K-1 master’s degree, Iván Estrada (Canoeing Moscón de Grado) won.
Óscar Martinez and Álvaro García, in K-2, winners of the Piloña-Sella descent
For its part, Cangueses Óscar Martínez del Cueto and Álvaro García Bueno (Club Sirio-La Llongar) achieved absolute victory in the 45th Descent of Piloña-Sella, last Saturday, elucidated between Sotu Dueñes and the Emilio Llamedo Olivera bridge. They invested 46 minutes and 27 seconds in the route, with Milín Llamedo Álvarez and Pedro Vázquez Llenin (Kayak Tudense) finishing second, 25 seconds behind the winners; and in third place Walter Bouzán and Lalo González (Canoeing El Sella), 48 seconds behind the paddlers of Cangas de Onís.
The complex note of the day had as a protagonist the also cangués Alberto Plaza Sagredo (SCD Ribadesella) who had to be transferred urgently to the Eastern Regional Hospital “Francisco Grande Covián” to be treated for a dislocation in his right shoulder, from which he is fortunately recovering. And it is that, in the Sotu Dueñes dam, one of the most striking points of the route, the La Cultural kayaker, who just a week ago was fourth in the World Marathon, he suffered a mishap while supporting the shovel and ended up injuring himself.
Ehe victory in K-1 went to the incombustible Kiko Vega Suárez (SCD Ribadesella), who needed 48 minutes and 11 seconds to cover the itinerary. Álvaro Fernández Fiuza (Oviedo Kayak-La Ribera), almost 1 minute from Vega; and Mario Sánchez Canteli (Neptuno de Toni, from Infiesto), almost 2 minutes from Kiko, completed the senior individual kayak podium. The fourth position was scored by the Argentine Fran Balboa, who also came from taking part in the World Marathon, held in Pitesti (Romania).
In female K-1, Valeria Perea (Los Rápidos-Jaire Aventura) won; in master’s degree K-1 won Iván Estrada García (Moscón Canoeing); in master’s degree K-2, José Manuel Obaya and Vicente Llerandi (Neptuno de Toni); in cadet K-1, Ana María Cofiño Gavito, in girls, and José Gutiérrez Iglesias, in girls, both from Los Rápidos-Jaire Aventura; in children K-1, Pablo Díaz Tarapiella, in boys, and Alea Ordieres Vivero, in girls, also from Los Rápidos-Jaire Aventura. The club classification was led by SCD Ribadesella, followed by Los Rápidos-Jaire Aventura and Oviedo Kayak-La Ribera.
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