Lucas Eguibar
, from
Gipuzkoa
, winner of the 2014-15 World Cup, confirmed his status as a historical figure in Spanish winter sports by proclaiming himself this Thursday
world champion of snowboard boardercross in Idre Fjäll (Sweden)
, one year before the next appointment Olympic Games, that of the Beijing 2022 Games.
'Luki', winner of the 2014-15 World Cup and who on Tuesday celebrated his
27th birthday
with a third place in the classification, had been a
double silver medalist -individual and by teams- at the Sierra Nevada World Cups in 2017
.
Two years ago, in Solitude (USA) he left with the bittersweet taste of reaching the Grand Final and finishing fourth.
And this Thursday, despite making Efe recognized the day before that he "signed" a bronze, he achieved the greatest sporting success of his outstanding sporting career until now.
The Donostiarra won world gold in the icy Ider Fjäll, where he
relegated the great favorite, the Austrian Alessandro Hämmerle
,
to second place
, first in all his previous descents.
Canadian Eliot Grondin, who also dominated his first two sets, went to the final after finishing second in the 'semi', and crossed the finish line again behind the 'rider' of Vorarlberg, to capture bronze.
Eguibar floated with joy after his great victory, just one year before the Beijing Games, in which - after having captured an Olympic Diploma in Sochi'14 (Russia) - he will
try to remove another thorn, that of the last appointment, that of PyeongChang (South Korea)
, where he served as a Spanish flag bearer;
and, when he was aspiring to everything, he fell on the track after colliding with the Italian Omar Visintin.
"When crossing the finish line I was dreaming, in a cloud"
"I don't believe it yet. It was a tough race, but I'm very happy, right now," the Gipuzkoan champion explained in a telephone conversation with Efe from Sweden.
"The first rounds I came out strong, the others I sort of calmed down.
And in the semifinals I had the legs that I could hardly walk, they had to help me move,
" he added.
"In one of the rounds I fell on a little plane and my back hurts a lot. I don't know how I'm going to be tomorrow.
I'm exhausted right now, but I can't believe it,
" commented the brand new world champion while waiting to pass the doping control in Sweden.
"I did not know what to think when crossing the finish line, I was dreaming, in a cloud.
I have been fighting for a result like this for many years, almost since the Sierra Nevada World Championships
. And it did not come. It has been four very hard years, but at last it has arrived . I'm very happy, I can't believe it, it's incredible, "the brand-new boardercross world champion told Efe from Idre Fjäll.
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