The experienced one Kenya Lettuce She did not have the best of her performances in her qualifying heat within the women’s single scull modality of the rowing discipline once she finished in fifth place and was left without any chance of winning a medal in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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Although the Monterrey native was not one of the candidates to win a medal on French soil, one of the objectives was to at least overcome this stage and sneak into the A or B semi-finals to improve on what she did in her previous Olympic events. However, she did not achieve her objective despite the effort she made on the track at the Nautical Stadium.
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From lane two, the 30-year-old Mexican, dressed in her white tricolor suit with green and red trim, as well as dark glasses, faced the second qualifying heat of the race, where the goal was to finish among the top three places to continue fighting for the podium, but as the competition progressed she went from more to less throughout the 2000 meters.
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How did Kenya fare in her individual rowing event?
The tricolor rower made a promising start when she crossed the first 500 meters of the race in third place, her best position throughout the race, behind the Dutch Karolien Florijn, who led the battle from start to finish in first place, and the Belarusian Tatsiana Klimovich, who competed with the initials AIN, Individual Neutral Athlete, a term used for athletes from Russia or Belarus.
The competition continued and by the middle of the race the German Alexandra Foester gradually climbed positions and overtook Kenya Lettuce to leave her in fourth place, an insufficient place to try to improve on what she did in Rio 2016, where she finished in twelfth place overall, and Tokyo 2020, where she finished in sixteenth.
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Although the Mexican representative pushed for the 1500 meters, the reality is that she collapsed and did not move from fifth place after the Paraguayan Alejandra Alonso She also surpassed her. Lettuce Alanís showed her pride, she never stopped moving her oars and crossed the finish line in fifth place, which sent her to the dispute of the C or D semi-finals with a time of 7:50.35 minutes.
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When is Kenia Lechuga competing again?
So that Kenya Lettuce She will still be active in Paris 2024, even if she will no longer be fighting for medals. She will get back on her boat on July 31, an athlete who already made history in Mexico by being the first woman to be active in three different summer rowing competitions.
