Chourraut and Echániz qualify for the Oklahoma World Cup kayak semifinal

At the Oklahoma World Cup, the qualifying round for kayaking was held early in the morning in both male and female categories, with Maialen Chourraut and Pau Echániz overcoming the first obstacle of the modality, while Leire Goñi said goodbye to the individual championship, the Basque Team Foundation reported in a statement.

Maialen Chourraut has made a good descent, and at times his good performance has placed him in third place in the ranking. The first part has been very clean, but in the second part of the journey he has got a little stuck, with a touch on the 18th goal, which has been punished. In the end, the owner of three Olympic medals has made a time of 92:34 compared to the best round +02:96 (German Rikarda Funk has made a time of 89:38).

Leire Goñi made a mistake at the beginning of the tour by colliding with a support hidden inside the canal. After this accident, she failed to get the canoe back to its initial speed, which meant too much weight both mentally and navigationally. She also made a touchon gate 17 . With a total timeof 01:04:92, she was ranked 46th.

Pau Echaniz has been the last Basque palist to compete in kayak mode. The pirate who won the bronze medal at the Paris Games has not failed and has passed the qualifying round to enter the semi-finals. Despite a small mistake in gate 12, the Donostiarra has finished his career with a time of 83:80 and a place of 27.

Team kayaking tests

As for the team competition, on theone hand, the trio of Maialen Chorraut, Leire Goñiand Laia Sorribesfinished seventh, with a time of 104.68, and two touches at gates 9 and 13.

On the other hand,themen's team (Pau Echániz, David Llorente and Miquel Trave) has been ranked 13th, due to mistakes made at the start of the tour.