2024-07-10 01:08:53
Argentina won its first title in a Canoe Slalom World Championships Junior and Under 23 of the International Canoe Federation (ICF), based on the triumph of Manuel Tripano. The incident occurred in the Liptovsky Mikulas Artificial Rapids Canal, Slovakia.
Manuel Tripano’s moment of glory and consecration came last Saturday, July 6, during the men’s individual canoe final (C1) of the U23 Canoe Slalom World Championships.
On the turbulent waters of Slovakia’s “Ondrej Cibak” course on the Váh River, Tripano recorded a time of 95.27 to take pole position, before waiting and watching as seven more paddlers took to the water for their start. The Checo Lukas Kratochvil He seemed to have won the World Championship when he crossed the finish line, but after receiving a two-second penalty for touching one of the 21 gates, the historic world title fell into the hands of the Necochea native.
“Wow, I don’t know what to feel, it’s my dream come true,” Manu said in his first interview with Planet Canoe“I thought I had a very good performance, and that it could be enough to win a medal. When I saw that Lukas had achieved first position at the finish line I was happy, “Because getting a medal was a very important moment for me. When I was celebrating getting on the podium, people were telling me that I was actually first, those moments were very emotional,” he added.
“It’s a great moment for Argentine Canoe Slalom,” the 19-year-old paddler told the International Canoe Federation press. The blue and white flag fluttered from the top of the podium of this 2024 World Championship, and with the performance during the grand final of the only Argentine representative in the competition, the stanzas of our National Anthem were played.
The world podium included the Argentine, who made a superb final of 95.27 points (seconds), “fast and clean”, as the traditional refrain of the international masters in the 90s went. In second place and silver medal, the French athlete Yohann Sebechault With a score of 95.48 points without penalties, just 0.21 tenths of a second behind Manu. The bronze medal went to the Czech Republic thanks to the aforementioned paddler. Kratochvil, who obtained a score of 95.71 points including the 2-second penalty for touching the mark.
The brand new World Champion is registered for the Argentine Canoe Federation through the Municipal School of Necochea, and is part of the High Performance Team of Puerto Quequen, He is also a second-year student of the Bachelor of Kinesiology and Physiotherapy at FASTA University. Mar del Plata. He was led in this European campaign by his father, the National Coach Lic. Professor Javier Trípano, who is a base coach in Necochea with his uncle Professor Martín Trípano.