MADRID, 12 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish Elia Canales could not win this Sunday the gold medal in the recurve bow modality of the European Archery Championship that is being held in the German town of Essen after falling in an exciting final against the German Katharina Bauer.
The Catalan, runner-up at the individual level last summer at the European Games in Krakow (Poland), where she won gold in a mixed team with Miguel Alvariño, demonstrated the high level that had taken her to the fight for the continental title on Friday. , but she could not beat her rival, the first favorite in the competition, although she has good reinforcement for the Paris Olympic Games next summer.
The woman from Tarragona, seventh favorite, began dominating the first round and after tying in the second, she saw how Bauer took the next two, but she had nerves of steel to win it and force a tiebreaker decision where the German deprived her of the gold to climb two steps from the podium compared to 2022.
2024-05-15 07:39:44
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