Carlos Arevalo's rowing makes history in Canada | Sports

Carlos Arevalo, a soldier from Infantry Regiment No. 3 from Cabo Noval, Asturias, on Sunday became the first Spaniard to win two gold medals at the World Rowing Championships. At 29 years old, this Galician from Betanzos, who came late to the sport of rowing, repeated in the single kayak what he achieved on Saturday in the K4 team event, in the quad rowing boat. Another gold hanging around his neck.

Herminio Menéndez, David Cale, Sol Craviotto and Teresa Portela, Spain's rowing legends, were unable to match Arevalo's feat in the calm waters of Lake Bannock, in Nova Scotia. The Galiki jumped from the boat with four crew members to one without almost any specific preparations. He didn't need it, judging by his influence racewho was unstoppable in the K1 200 final, dominated the event from start to finish on a day that the Spanish delegation completed with a global haul of six medals and four golds.

“It was a very tough race with headwinds, but I felt good and I’m very happy,” said Arevalo, bearded and dark-eyed. “The feelings have been very good. Winning gold in K4 and now in K1 is the best. “I can't aspire to more.”

The rower crossed the finish line in 36.43 seconds. He is almost three tenths ahead of the Swedish kayak captained by Peter Menning (36.71) and almost four tenths ahead of the Hungarian kayak captained by multiple champion Csizmadia (38.82). Huge, considering the possibilities it offers race The 200 metres, which will not be included in the Paris 2024 Games, but allows a measure of Arevalo's ability in K4, where he made the team with the most potential in the world to attack Olympic gold.

Arevalo's success is matched by his unique career. The rower even considered retiring from major competition after being disqualified for the Rio Games in 2016. He was beaten by Saul Craviotto and Christian Toro, who eventually became Olympic champions. After that, Arevalo worked hard to enter the army, and after a long hiatus he began preparing to obtain a ticket for the Tokyo Games. There he finished fifth in the K1200 and took silver in the K4500 with Germad, Craviotto and Cooper. With the same teammates, he was able to become a World Cup champion in Canada, in the final match on Saturday.

The Spanish delegation were celebrating Arevalo's gold when Maria Corbera took second place in the C1200 canoe final after finishing fourth in the Recici World Cup. Maria had a fantastic final in Halifax, in a race that started well, with the Chinese dominating. Lin Wenjun, who succumbed to the power of American Nevin Harrison (49.87), the 2019 champion, and ended up losing in the struggle for silver with Maria (50.54) by only one hundredth.

Team victory

Finally, it was the boat team, C4, that gave Spain its sixth medal, and fourth gold of the championship, by winning the race From 500 metres. Made up of Juan Moreno, Pablo Grania, Manuel Fontan and Adrian Cerro, the team completed the final in a time of 1 minute and 39.42 seconds, ahead of Poland and Ukraine.

The C4 500 extended the great moment in the Spanish team's boats, which shone in a brilliant World Cup Final by winning two gold medals and a silver medal. In a direct final, without prior classification, Spain took advantage of Germany's absence at the last minute and was declared world champion with the superiority shown by Moreno, Grania, Fontan and Cierro, who were 49 hundredths ahead of the Poles Aleksander Kitewski and Arsene. Sliwinskiy, Viktor Glazunov and Norman Zizola, and at 1:10 seconds the Ukrainians Vitaly Virgilis, Andrey Rybachuk, Yuri Vandyuk and Taras Mishuk.

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