Among the Olympians, Julián Salinas demonstrated enormous potential in the senior K1

2024-01-13 22:47:58

In the rest of the Olympic categories, Julián Salinas’ triumph is worth highlighting. At only 19 years old, the Choele Choel paddler won his category widely, the always competitive K1 senior that the double junior world medalist transformed into a procedure.

Although he won without problems in all the partials, as happened with the rest of the competitors, Salinas agreed that the most difficult were the fourth and fifth stages. «Conesa and Guardia Miter were the most complicated. There was a lot of headwind And the truth is they were very complicated. “I still enjoyed the entire Regatta,” said Julián.

Regarding his decision to represent the El Biguá de Neuquén club, Choelense Salinas clarifies that it is because this year he will be living in Neuquén. «I’ve been there for 15 days, I’m going to study there. Anyway, I’m going to improve a lot at El Biguá because they work very well,” says Salinas, who The next objective is the Selective team that will qualify for the World Cup that will be held in Croatia.

In K2 master, the victory went to the brothers Gustavo and Javier Rodríguez, who represented Italiano de Neuquén and Club Del Progreso de Roca. The duo won everything they ran, but for them the most difficult stage was the sixth, which was run entirely in San Javier.

The Rodríguez boat No. 15 took the K2 master A. (Photo/Andrés Maripe)

«We knew it was going to be hard, but we did not expect it with that modality. Doing so many kilometers once morest the current was difficult. Since it was not possible to start from the Querejeta field in the sixth set, due to a flood on the entrance road, the organization arranged a different stage: a 25 kilometer circuit with its epicenter in San Javier.

In junior K2 the victory went to the boys from Tigre, Valentino Puzzo and Ian Ibern, while in mixed K2 the victory went to the double world medalist, both in marathon and sprint, Martina Catalano, who shared the boat with Emanuel Carnicero. In K2 women, Amaike Gopar and Gabriela Lazarte completed the route to Viedma.

Emanuel Carnicero and Martina Catalano won the mixed K2. (Photo/Andrés Maripe)

In K1 master A, the victory went to the representative of the Huilliches Association, Miguel Gutierrez; Meanwhile in K1 master B Juan Pablo Martínez he was left with the victory. In K1 master C, the victory went to Julián Solotar (Náutico Hacoaj), which beat the historic Omar Linares. In K1 ladies, in the only individual women’s boat in the competition, Anita Mas Contreras He finished the course in his absolute debut in the event at only 16 years old.

Anita Mas Contreras, just 16 years old, successfully completed her first Regatta. (Photo/Daniel Nahuelcura)


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