MADRID, 23 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Spanish men's C4 500m team won the silver medal on the fourth day of the World Canoe Sprint Championships, currently being held in Milan, Italy. María Corbera took bronze in the C1 500m final. These two victories bring Spain's medal haul to six at the world championships.
At the Idrosalo in the Lombard capital, Daniel Grijalba, Martín Jácome, Manuel Fontán, and Adrián Sieiro staged a sensational comeback in the final meters of the final. They were fifth at the halfway point, but ultimately crossed the finish line in second place (1:31.15), behind only Hungary (1:30.38), with Belarus finishing in third place (1:31.45).
In the women's C1 500m final, the Madrid native finished fourth at the 250m mark, but recovered in the second half to finish third with a time of 2:01.27, three seconds behind the new world champion, Ukrainian Liudmyla Luzan. Canadian Katie Vincent took silver.
With this, Corbera adds her seventh world medal and fifteenth internationally. On Sunday, she will have another chance to win a medal in the women's C4 500m final, where she shares a boat with Claudia Couto, Valeria Oliveira, and Ana Cantero.
These two new medals join the four other medals Spain has collected so far at the event, all of which took place on Friday: the gold for the Spanish women's K4 500m team; Pablo Graña's silver in the C1 200m; and the bronzes in the men's K4 500m and C2 500m by Àngels Moreno and Viktoriia Yarchevska.
In the other finals featuring Spanish athletes this Saturday, Pontevedra-born Pablo Crespo finished fifth in the C1 1,000 meters, while Vigo-born Roi Rodríguez could only manage eighth in the K1 1,000 meters.
