Saúl Craviotto will have the opportunity within a year to match, or beat, David Cal as the Spanish athlete with the most Olympic medals. This Sunday, at the controls of the K-4 500 meters , he has won the silver medal and, therefore, the ticket for the Tokyo Olympics , where he will try to enter history definitively, if it is not already. The Spanish vessel, where in addition to Craviotto have been Carlos Arévalo, Marcus Walz and Rodrigo Germade , it has only been surpassed by Germany (gold). The bronze has been for Slovakia .
With today's one, Craviotto, who claims to be practically the Spanish flag bearer in the Japanese event, adds his tenth World Cup medal in an appointment, the recently completed one, where the Spanish delegation has also surpassed its mark last year. To the five medals with which the delegation started the last day, we must add the aforementioned K-4 500 and the one obtained (also silver) a little earlier by Paco Cubelos and Iñigo Peña in the K2 1,000 meters for a total of seven metals
Only the German boat, with Max Hoff and Jacob Schopf, beat the Spanish duo in the final. The Manchego and the Basque stayed at 1.26 seconds of gold, with a time of 3: 21.79. The French Cyrille Carre and Etienne Hubert took the bronze. They also achieved the classification of the ship for the Tokyo Games.
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