Athletes from the Castores do Arade club from Lagos collected 44 medals in the National Line Regatta Championship, for Juniors, Seniors and Masters, which took place in Montemor-o-Velho, on the 1st and 2nd of July.
The highlight goes to Iago Bebiano, who became national champion in K1 500m Sub23 and won four more medals: a 2nd place in K2 500m, with Kevin Santos, a 3rd place in K1 500m Senior and a 2nd place in K1 200m Sub23.
Iago Bebiano, in the K1 500m, «demonstrated his great moment of form», when he shared the podium with two great athletes, the runner-up of the last European Games Fernando Pimenta, and João Ribeiro, both from Sport Lisboa e Benfica.
Kayak Clube Castores do Arade considers that its participation in the Championship was «epic», since, having registered 28 athletes, «everyone brought at least one medal».
«There were many months of preparation and a lot of work on the crews to present a competitive team».
K4 Masters A and B won 3rd place in the fotofinish, with times of 1.42.651 and 1.42.681 for the team from Arnelas, in Masters A, and 1.48.187 against 1.48.222 for the team from Vila do Conde, in Masters B.
«It was these few hundredths that allowed the Algarve team to win medals», although they were «moments of great expectation» while the four vessels awaited the official results. «Fortunately, in both crews, the fotofinish was favorable for the Castors team».
With the results achieved in Montemor-o-Velho, KCCA was the 8th national club in the ranking of juniors and seniors and 2nd in the ranking of masters.
The National Speed Championship ends on the 5th and 6th of August, with the athletes competing from 9 to 16.
The next competition will be the Campeonato Nacional de Esperanças III, in Gemeses, on the 9th of July, in which several national titles are up for grabs.
RESULTS:
National Champions
C1 Senior 500m – Liudmyla Babak
VL2 500m and 200m – Norberto Mourão
C1 Master A 1000m – Oleksandr Olefirenko
K1 master B female 500m – Ana Bebiano
K2 master B female 500m – Ana Bebiano/Patrícia Serôdio
K4 master B female – Ana Bebiano/Susana Carapinha/Nastasha Luckman/Patrícia Serôdio
Vice-National Champions
K1 master B female – Patrícia Serôdio
K1 master A female – Cátia Serôdio
K2 Senior – Iago Bebiano/Kevin Santos
K2 master A female – Lília Calado and Cátia Serôdio
K4 Junior – Henrique Bernardo/Diogo Araújo/Miguel Costa/David Costa
K4 master A female – Lília Calado/Cátia Serôdio/Élia Reis/Amélia Câmara
Bronze medal
Senior K1 200m – Kevin Santos
C1 Senior 200m – Liudmyla Babak
K2 Junior 500m – Henrique Bernardo/Miguel Costa
C2 Senior 500m – Verónica Lucas/Liudmyla Babak
K2 master C 500m – Luís Lima/Peter Ribe
K4 master At 500m – Pedro Marques/Rui Marques/Gilberto Lopes/Wagner Santos
K4 master B 500m – Orlando Silva/Nuno Silva/Sérgio Carapinha/Sérgio Tavares
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