Agustín Vernice went to the semifinals of the Canoeing World Cup

Agustín Vernice went to the semifinals of the Canoeing World Cup

Vernice, 27 years old, he won his qualifying regatta with a time of 3m49s40/100 and went on to semifinal 3, which will take place next Friday and will provide three places in the final A (from first to sixth-ninth place).

The Argentine will compete together with Guang Teo, from Singapore; the dutch albert flierthe romanian Darius Zahari; the hungarian Balint Kopasz -Olympic champion in Tokyo-; the Czech Josef Dostal -fifth in the 2021 Olympic Games and 2019 world runner-up-; the Slovakian Peter Gelle; James Munro, from New Zealand and Edy Barranco, from Puerto Rico.

On May 29 last, Vernice obtained the fifth place in the final A (from the first to the ninth place) at the World Cup in Poznan, Poland, in the K1 1000 meters test.

varnish he finished fifth with a time of 3m31s89/100 in his second consecutive A final as on Saturday May 21 he finished seventh at the World Cup in Racece, Czech Republic, in his first international competition of the year.

The Argentine achieved the Olympic diploma in Tokyo by finishing eighth in the final A of K1 1000 meters, with a record of 3m. 28s. 503/1000, in the Sea Forest Canal in the Japanese capital, while the Hungarian Balint Kopasz won the gold medal with a new Olympic record: 3m. 20s. 643/1000.

The native of Olavarría, winner of two gold medals at the last Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, 2019: in K1 1000 and K2 1000, along with Manuel Lascanotwice reached the final A (from first to ninth place) in World Championships in the senior K1 1000 test: in Szeged, Hungary 2019, in which he finished ninth, and in Racice, Czech Republic, 2017, in the one who got the seventh place.

Also, varnish He was the first Argentine in history to become world champion under 23 in Pitesti (Romania) in K1 1000 (2017).

Also, Juan Ignacio Cáceres, Agustín Rodríguez, Gonzalo Benassi and Gonzalo Carrerasadvanced to one of the semifinals -which will be held on Friday and which will provide three places to the final A- in the K4 500 test by finishing fourth, with a time of 1m24s52/100, in their qualifying series that was won by Germany with 1m21s52/ 100.

The duo made up of Candelaria Sequeira and Lucía Aziz also went to the semifinals by finishing fifth in their eliminatory series with a time of 42:45/100, and Brenda Rojas went to the same instance in K1 500 by finishing fourth in her series with a time of 1:58:89. /100.

in paracanoeing, Emilio Atamanuk and Mariano Turner advanced to the semifinals in KL2 200 meters, as did Mark Dominguez at Kl3 200.

Source: Ambito

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