After Brazil returned home from Oklahoma City with a bag full of medals, Kopac won nine victories, four gold, three silver and two bronze during the 2022 Pan American Canoe Slalom Championship. The Brazilian team consisted of five athletes, Omira Estacia being on the podium five times, Guilherme Rodrigues and Caus da Silva twice.
In this event, the senior, sub-23 and junior heats were played together by category on Saturday (07), with the first descent qualifying as the semi-finals and the second dynasty qualifying as the finals, as well as the Pan-American Championship, this year. There was a dispute between select citizens of the United States and Canada that ended on Sunday (08). The Brazilians will again enter the water on this final day of events, but the brawl will only be used as a form of training.
Omira Astasia threw a grand party to celebrate her two gold medals, another silver and two bronze. In the C1 Women’s Sub-23, she completed the course in 100.13 seconds, being the fastest in this category. The same test was valid in the senior dispute, his time being the third fastest overall and with this he took the bronze medal. Beatriz da Motta also competed in canoe and finished 7th overall. De Gould went to Evi Leibfarth (96.99s) of North America and the silver to Lois Betteridge (99.88s) of Canada.
Another gold came for the K1 Extremo Feminino, she was unbeaten ahead of María Luz Cassini of Argentina who took silver and Canada’s Le Baldoni the bronze. Competing for the K1 women, her time of 91.78 seconds brought two more podiums, a bronze in senior and a silver in U-23.
For the men’s K1 Guilherme Rodrigues clocked 80.98 seconds in the final, as he went up to the podium to take a gold medal in the under-23 category and a silver medal in the senior, who scored the fastest time. The dispute was North American Tyler Westfall who completed the course in 78.11. Murillo Sorgetz also competed in the kayak, he had several penalties on the course and with this he finished 7th.
Caus da Silva also took a gold and a silver medal in the men’s C1, with a time of 88.08 seconds he was the fastest in the under-23 category and second in the senior, with the gold being North American Zachary Lokken. , he completed the race in 85.89 seconds.
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