Damián Quintero and Paola García lead the bathe of Spanish medals in Krakow

The Spanish delegation shone this Thursday on the begin of the European Games in Krakow (Poland), an afternoon with a bath of medals, 9, and unique mention to the gold medals in karate for Damián Quintero and Paola García, in addition to the good harvest of handball seaside, canoeing, artistic swimming and jumping.

Quintero and García overcame their three group level clashes with authority and, looking for the medal, climbed to the top. “I’ve been there for eight years, very satisfied. The semifinals got a piece caught for me but in the very last I enjoyed it. Last 12 months continuity become very tough for me and this 2023 is being excellent, all medals,” stated the person from Malaga.

The Olympic runner-up defeated Turkish Ali Sofuoglu inside the guys’s kata final with a rating of forty four.60 to clinch his third identify in a row, after leaving at the back of that disturbing ‘semi’ towards Italian Mattia Busato. For her part, García from Extremadura finished a spherical day with gold after defeating the French Helvetia Taily with a score of 43.Ninety.

Meanwhile, canoeing changed into once again a supply of achievement for Spanish recreation by way of adding two silver medals this Thursday, the first day with medals at stake after the outlet on Wednesday. The  C2-500 boats, made up of Cayetano García and Pablo Martínez and Antía Jácome and María Corbera, every won silver.

The guys’s duo, who reached the very last immediately, stopped the clock at 1:40.513, as compared to the 1:40.168 that Italy signed to win gold and enduring a robust sprint against Poland. Meanwhile, Antía and María, winners of their collection, fought the very last fight with the Ukrainian duo that took the gold by centimeters.

On the opposite hand, with the honour further to the fact that it turned into the medal that opened the Spanish file in Krakow, Emma García and Dennis González climbed to the second step of the podium inside the mixed duo class. The creative swimming duo accomplished a complete of 216.5867 factors, handiest behind Italy, with 242.3599.

In addition, the national organization of jumps, Valeria Antolino, Rocío Velázquez, Carlos Camacho and Alberto Arévalo, hung the bronze medal in the 3m/10m mixed check by way of attaining 381.Forty five factors, behind Ukraine and Italy. Meanwhile, Paula Grande and Jesús Oviedo had to accept silver in the 10-meter air rifle, after losing the mixed team final against Hungary (7-17).

The completion to a Thursday of podiums turned into positioned via seashore handball, with a presence within the guys’s and ladies’s group finals. The Hispanics of the arena passed Hungary inside the ‘shootouts’ (23-22, 24-25, 13-12), in a coronary heart-stopping final results that later emulated the girls’s very last. There, Spain misplaced (22-20, 20-21, 10-8) to Denmark and needed to settle for silver.