The Basques Iñigo Peña and Begoña Lazcano achieve a silver and a bronze in the European canoeing

The Basques Iñigo Peña and Begoña Lazcano have managed to get on the podium in the European Canoeing Championship that is being held in Munich. The former has won his second medal in a European event in the K4-1,000, and the third if we take into account the World Championships. On this occasion he has won the silver medal in a regatta that has been disputed until the end. The second has been done with the medal in the K2-1000 test.

Peña, along with Paco Cubelos, Roi Rodriguez and Pedro Vazquez, have flown at the start of the Munich regatta center. They have taken a different strategy than usual, trying to catch all their opponents by surprise, especially all the Germans, their main adversaries. Thus, they have done practically 900 meters in first position, but the effort has taken its toll on them in the last meters. They finished with a time of 2:53.627 (+0.453), entering the finish line behind Germany and ahead of Hungary.

Iñigo Peña, with his teammates from the K4-1,000 with whom he has won the silver medal.

The K4-1,000 meters is not the only test that Iñigo Peña has played this Friday. First thing in the morning, the paddler from Zumaia finished fifth in the K4-500 meters series together with his teammates Carlos Garrote, Cristian Toro and Lázaro López. They have finished the series with a time of 1:21.383 (+0.661), behind the boats from Lithuania, Ukraine, France and Slovakia. They will therefore have to play the semifinal this Saturday at 9:30 am. In addition to that semifinal, and possible final, Iñigo and Paco Cubelos will contest the final of the K2-1,000 meters on Sunday.

Lazcano, bronze

For her part, Gipuzkoa Begoña Lazcano has won a medal in the K2-1000 test. Lazcano has teamed up with the Catalan Laia Pèlachs, and they have won third place in the final behind Hungary and Poland.

Begoña Lazcano with Laia Pelachs with her bronze.

The Hungarians have posted a time of 3:33.942 and have led the Poles by less than a second (+0.664, 3:34.606). After them, the boat of the Spanish team entered, three seconds from the gold medal (3:36.942). It is the second medal for Lazcano in this modality, since he also obtained silver in the 2021 Europeans.