Europeans 2022: Pimenta secures fourth medal for Portugal
Portuguese canoeist took third in the K1 500 meters race
Fernando Piment Germany known this Friday the bronze medal in the test of K1 500 meters in the first of the four cities that will dispute in Munich, na.
Competing on track seven, Pimenta completed the race in 1,38,803 minutes, plus 0,791 seconds of the winner, the German Jacob Schoff (1,38,012), while the silver medal went to the Hungarian Adam Varga (1,38,237).
The Portuguese had already won a bronze medal in this distance in the Canadian connoisseurs, two weeks ago.
Limiano will also compete in the K1 1,000 Olympic final, on Saturday at 12:00, three hours and 25 minutes before the K1 5,000 race, while the K2 1,000 race, with João Duarte, is only on Sunday at 10:15 am.
The record number of competitions that Pimenta is disputing in these Europeans – four, of which in two he had to pass the semi-finals sieve – were assumed by the Portuguese double Olympic medalist as a test of the limits of resistance of his body in a year conducive to experiences, before qualifying for Paris 2024.
This is Portugal’s fourth medal so far, after the two gold ones, through Pedro Pablo Pichardo, in the triple jump, and by Iúri Leitão, in the track cycling scratch, of silver, by Auriol Dongmo, in the shot put. , and now Fernando Pimenta’s bronze, in the K1 500.