Fernando Pimenta and the K1000 closing: “I may have finished it a bit higher »

Fernando Pimenta, a Portuguese rower, admitted on Sunday that he “may have finished a bit higher” within the closing a part of the K1 1,000 meters race on the European Championships, nonetheless with “good emotions” within the successful bronzein Szeged.

“For sure, it was a aggressive competitors. I achieved a part of what I had prompt with my coach, to hitch my Hungarian colleague Balint [Kopasz], which we knew can be very robust. I did nicely, however ultimately I felt I may have finished a bit higher. Now it is time to proceed the work to Paris ‘2024”, he mentioned, talking to Lusa.

On monitor 4, along with the Hungarian Balint Kopasz, Olympic champion and his nice worldwide rival in recent times, the Portuguese completed in 3.38.099 minutes, 2.977 seconds behind the Belarusian Aleh Yurenia, who grew to become the European champion, leaving Magyar in second place, at 0.370 seconds.

The shock gold medalist, Yurenia, was concerned in a disqualification within the semi-final, as a result of, main freely within the final meters, continuously seeking to either side, let he alone delayed the third place, to make a line in row 9, which in Szeged has, as a rule, benefited the canoeists.

“I used to be counting [com este resultado]. He had performed within the semi-final to qualify for collection 9. The wind can be a bit favorable. It was good, nevertheless it wasn’t honest play, as a result of we all know it has a huge impact on the result. That is one other stage of the preparation for the Olympic Video games, and that’s the most essential factor,” he mentioned.

Pimenta revealed that he had a “feeling of management” as much as 500 meters, equal to Kopasz in entrance of him, however then he allowed himself to go “a bit decrease”, nonetheless appreciating the “good emotions there the great a part of the race”.

After the bronze in K1 1,000 meters and silver in K1 500, the Limian nonetheless has the direct closing of the 5,000 meters, wherein he often climbed the rostrum.

Fernando Pimenta hopes to “have an excellent begin, attempt to win the group first and go away some power to compete” for victory within the closing a part of an occasion that can convey collectively the consultants between -national greatest on the horizon, most of them focus solely on this distance.