Pau Echaniz finished eighth in the final of the K1 category at the Lee Valley Whitewater Slalom World Cup. The Atlético San Sebastián canoeist competed in second position in the outcome of the men’s event. He concluded the course in a time of 96.59, 5.27 behind the British Joseph Clarke who won the gold and was crowned the best in the world.
Echaniz completed the final descent without apparent problems. Demonstrating confidence from the gate three chicane. Upon reaching six, the maneuver had to be revised since the man from San Sebastián accelerated with the shovel. The judges also imposed the review on the lift at gate fifteen, although in the end, as in the previous one, they did not notice that there was anything penalizable. He overcame the final challenge and with his last stops he stopped the clock at 96.59.
In the morning, the man from San Sebastian obtained the non-nominative Olympic ticket for the Federation by placing among the ten best which allowed him to compete in the final of the Men’s K1 World Cup in the afternoon.
Chorraut out of the final
Maialen Chorraut did not manage to sneak into the final of the women’s K1. The triple Olympic medalist was left with no options when she was fifteenth in the semifinal held in the morning, completing the course in 7.10 seconds more than the first classified, the French Jessica Fox.
Chourraut, after his K1 team silver medal on Tuesday, had no problems solving the qualifying round in his specialty on Thursday. But today she has not managed to place herself among the top ten.
The lasartearra started going down well, even going so far as to improve Luuka Jones’s record, the best mark up to that point. But after a great first half, in the second she had a harder time steering the ship to find the right direction. After hitting the woods at gate 17, which penalized him with 2 seconds, he also ran into problems at gate 22. contact with the shovel. I was not able to recover the gesture properly for the next maneuver and as a result I knocked on the door and lost time,” Maialen explained later.
However, it achieves the Olympic place for the federation “one of the objectives of this World Cup”, since there are fifteen tickets that are distributed for the Paris Games. The Olympic medalist has confessed to being left with “sadness at the gates of the final, I am left looking forward to it. We must also make the positive assessment, I have achieved the Olympic place, which was the great objective. The square returns with us »she celebrated.
The World Cup does not end today for the Gipuzkoans, tomorrow they will compete in the Kayak Cross event, a modality for which they have also obtained a ticket for Paris 2024.
2023-09-23 14:07:58
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