In the waters of the Vezere river in France, the Cus Pavia champion climbs the podium three times. Allen fourth in K2 at the Canoe Marathon World Championships
PAVIA
Tricolor reflections in the waters of the Vezere river, in Treignac, France. On the occasion of the downhill canoe World Cup test, the final race of this long season, Mathilde Rosa climbed to the podium three times, thus redeeming the opaque test at the World Championships in Bratislava last week. The Cus Pavia champion thus closed in the best way a year that saw her protagonist both on the flat water of the speed canoe and among the rapids of the descent, and with two gold medals and one silver she brought back Italy in the elite of the specialty. After having inaugurated the French event with a silver in the classic test, yielding only to the French Pauline Freslon who for just six seconds preceded the blue at the finish line, Rosa no longer left room for her opponents going to win both the sprint test (right on the French , runner-up) that the online test. In the online race, on her absolute debut in the international field, Rosa triumphed in 21 ’53 ”, overcoming the first of the pursuers by more than 12 seconds, the Swiss Mueller,’ silver, with the usual French Freslon completing the podium.
Have yourself and train in evidence
In the men’s field the fifth place of Giacomo Abbiati (College of the paddle) in the sprint test of the men’s K1 is worth while in the C1 the collegiate Tommaso Mapelli was unable to repeat the exploit that had guaranteed him the bronze world champion a week ago in the race in teams with his college mate, Giacomo Bianchetti and the Pescantina standard bearer, Mattia Quintarelli.
While the downhill skiers were busy in France, the world canoe marathon championships were staged in Bascov in Romania where the young Jonathan Allen from Pavia, born in 2003 from Cus Pavia, was staged. In the race in the test reserved for K2 Junior, the yellow and blue champion showed all his potential going to take a brilliant fourth place paired with Gabriele Duchini. The blue K2 concluded the 22.6 km race with a time of one hour, 35 minutes and 20 seconds, giving the Argentine crew the last place on the world championship podium in a sprint. In an intense race – which saw as many as 9 crews arrive in one minute – the Hungarian crew won, who became world champion with a time of one hour, thirty-five minutes and five seconds. The silver medal instead went to the neck of the Danish K2. Despite the bitterness of fourth place, the Italian K2 race remains to be framed in a specialty in which a blue crew has not been seen competing at such high levels for some time. Having finally arrived at the end of a long season, the time for balance sheets will now begin for the Pavese canoe, waiting to restart the long winter preparation. –