Canoeing has been one of the specialties of the Spanish delegation for years, and they came to these Olympic Games with serious chances of winning a medal in this sport. On Tuesday, August 6, the sprint canoeing team confirmed its candidacy and managed to qualify for the semi-finals of the men’s K4 500-meter category.
This Wednesday, August 7, Saúl Craviotto, Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Cooper and Rodrigo Germade will fight for a place in the final. If this quartet manages to play metal, Saúl Craviotto will become the Spanish athlete with the most medals in the history of the Olympic Games.
Saul Craviotto’s achievements
Craviotto is one of the best Spanish athletes of this century, and his record proves it. Four-time world champion and three-time European champion, the canoeist has completed his legend with an incredible journey in the Olympic Games, where he has won 5 medals. His first participation was in Beijing 2008, an edition from which he returned with his first medal: gold in the K2 500 metres.
In London 2012 she continued to demonstrate her greatness and won silver in the K1 200 metres, but her greatest performance would come four years later in Rio de Janeiro 2016, where she won gold in the K2 200 metres and bronze in the K1 200 metres.
Tokio 2020
At the previous edition of the Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Craviotto won a silver medal, which allowed him to equal the five medals of another canoeist, David Cal. In this way, he became one of the two Spanish athletes with the most Olympic medals in history.
He won the silver medal in the same event that could make him the first in the Spanish medal table this year, the men’s K4 500 metres. He also won silver with the same team that will face the semi-finals of Paris 2024 on 7 August, which includes Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Cooper and Rodrigo Germade.
Olympic Games medal table
