As it’s
usual, Sunday was the day for the doubles. Again a grey morning that even ended
with some rain during the seniors race. Along the morning, the first victories
went to James Allen and George Barnicoat (GBR) in the Junior Men K2, the local
Emma Jørgensen and Emilie A. Petersen (DEN) in the Junior Women K2, Mattias
Ebhardt and Jens Martens (GER) in the Senior C2 and Fay Lamph and Lizzie
Broughton (GBR) in the Senior Women K2. In this last race, the main favorites,
Italians Cicali and Alberti, both medalists in the K1 the day before, couldn’t
finish the race.
It was time
then for the very competitive race of the Senior Men K2, with a few powerful
boats but two main favorites, which were Walter Bouzán and Álvaro F. Fiuza
(ESP), current World Champions for two years in a row, and Romain Marcaud and
Edwin Lucas (FRA), current European Champions.
The start,
facing a straight line of 2 km. until the first turn, was very quickly and the
favorites wanted to take a good place at the front of the group. Marcaud-Lucas
were setting the pace, while some couples had troubles to find the good wash
and that even finished with some touches that were repeated in the first turn.
Norwegians and British were mostly affected, but finally they could join the
main group again arriving aat the first portage.
