The Hungarian men’s kayak and canoe pair vying for the stakes made it to the finals, but the women’s kayak pair was unexpectedly eliminated in the 500m at the World Olympic Qualifying Kayak & Canoe Championships in Duisburg.
In the middle distance program on Saturday afternoon, the top three places in each event qualified for the final.
Nadas penny And Palint Palin He is competing as the defending champion in Germany and has performed confidently so far. It was no different this time, although they lost out to the upstart Germans, but second place and promotion were not in danger. In the final, the top six will advance to Paris, but since Nadas has already secured a quota of the four, Kopacz can complete the Hungarian Olympic men’s kayak team, which can have a maximum of six.
Balint Kobach: The middle race was really tough
“Maybe this track was a little better than the qualifiers, we were able to release more energy. I’m happy that we’ve reached the final and I hope tomorrow we can perform at the level of last year”. – said Nadas.
“I also hope that we will launch the ship in the final two hundred, as happened in the World Cup in Halifax or the European Championships last year.” Kobach added.
canoe David Korechanski And Adam Black After somewhat confusing preliminaries, they vowed that the track would be pieced together in their heads in the intermediate round, and they kept their promise. Although, as expected, there was a great struggle for the advanced positions – moreover, the start had to be repeated again – the Hungarians managed to reach third place relatively smoothly, so they only had to overtake one of their rivals in the final. On Sunday in order to get a share for Hungary.
David Korichansky: I came up with the belief that if we don’t have it now, we can pack it up
“Maybe we pushed it too far at first, I was so tired, and it was hard. I climbed up thinking there’s no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow, just this minute and a half, if we don’t have this, we can pack up and go home.” “Before the race, I stopped a class of Adolphe Balazs, gave him a little hug, sucked everything out of him, and I’m glad the final came together. The goal in the final is the podium, and it’s going to be a battle between the guys.” Koreshansky told M4 Sport.
“It left me with a thorn after the preliminary race, we brought the shadow of what we know, we weren’t lucky with the middle sprint either, we got the race where we were five in three. We trained twice yesterday and both times we put in performances that gave us confidence for the day. We made it through.” A long way to go, but there’s still a lot to do. If we fix this, anything can happen in the final, though it’s going to be very close, I’m sure of it. A big stone we entered, representing hundreds of men in the canoes, fell from my heart The Hungarians, and we’re riding for the stakes.And we’ll probably be more in the boat tomorrow, because usually everybody’s used to watching the finals, even though the intermediate race is the hardest race in the world championships to get stakes in. It was a man’s job. And we’ve done it.” – said Vikit.
Sara Vogt and Noemi Pope (Photo: MTI/Tamás Kovács)Little Sarah Vogt, Noemi Pope The duo did not succeed in the intermediate race as well as in the qualifiers. After a bad start, they were far from fighting for progress, and their eighth place meant elimination. Thus, with this number, the supplementary qualifiers next year will provide the Hungarian national team with the opportunity to collect the remaining two quotas for kayakers.
The unit members were very disappointed after the completion, but in Noemi Pope’s words, she “accepted” the assessment.
Noemi Pope: It was a wrecking race
“It’s hard to find the words. We didn’t get off to a good start either, but that wasn’t the problem. I felt like I couldn’t find a rhythm, I felt like I was falling off the boat, I even had to back it up once. I don’t want to make excuses, I It’s my turn. I need to reassess myself, how to move forward and whether this is my place.” – Tell.
In response to a question from MTI, he said: Since entering the competition, they have not succeeded in anything. He added, “The conditions were not suitable either, and then came the corrupt qualifying race that was not worthy of us, and then the stormy day yesterday when we were unable to train because we were thrown off the track.” And now it’s the middle race.” He said.
Viraj Bala (Photo: MTI/Tamas Kovacs)As for the numbers not included in the Olympic program: Bala flower and the Takatch Kenxo, Come on Jonathan The duo won the 500m C-1 and C-2 mixed event in a major competition, Friday, for the bronze medal in doubles. Anna Lutz However, to his bit of surprise, he missed the final in the K-1200, because he only finished fourth in his race, so he’ll be interested in Sunday’s B-final.
On the final day, 12 world championship finals will be held, ten of which will feature Hungarian boats.
Sunday programme:
Paragraph Finals 11.00
200m, 500m, 1000m and 500m mixed final 11.28
5000m finals 14.04
