The 27-year-old qualified in eighth place for the twelve-man final, in which he was only beaten by the Italian Giovanni de Gennaro by 2.96 seconds after a flawless run. The Swiss Gelindo Chiarello took bronze, just under a second behind Leitner. All other ÖKV active members were eliminated in advance.
Heavy rain and floods
From there it went straight to the final, as the schedule was thrown into disarray due to heavy rain and flooding. The men who failed to clear this one hurdle included Felix Oschmautz in 16th and Moritz Kremslehner in 37th and in the women’s category Corinna Kuhnle in 13th by just one place or 1.01 seconds, as well as Viktoria Wolffhardt in 28th Leitner With this success at the last chance against Oschmautz in the race for one Austrian Olympic place, they put themselves back in the running. He also got the quota place in September.
For the Austrian women, there is still the World Cup in Augsburg as a deciding factor for the allocation of the Olympic quota place, but Kuhnle has further improved her starting position compared to Wolffhardt, who was limited in her preparation for the European Championships. Wolffhardt is still in action at the European Championships on Sunday in the canoe sculls, and the men’s kayak team competition with Austrian participation was also on the program later on Saturday.
Second silver medal for Leitner
Leitner, a 2016 Olympic participant in Rio de Janeiro, had already won European Championship silver once, in 2022 in Liptovsky Mikuas in Slovakia in the new Olympic kayak cross competition. The Austrians did not put themselves in the limelight in this discipline in Ljubljana.
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