Slovaks were successful in water slalom, again

Slovakia won five medals on July 16 world championship in whitewater slalom. Two of them were gold medals.

Jakub Grigar has a great athletic season. Jakub Grigar has a great athletic season. (Source: TASR)

Jakub Grigar won the under 23 single kayak category, with a lead of 3.24 seconds over Italian Zeno Ivaldi.

Marko Mirgorodský won the junior K1 category, with a lead of 2.68 seconds, beating Czech Matyáš Lhota.  

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Kayaker Andrej Málek defended his bronze medal in K1 from last year, the TASR newswire wrote.

Moreover, the Slovak team 3xK1 “23” – Grigar, Málek and Richard Macúš – won silver medals. Also Slovak junior canoeists in 3XC1, Simona Glejteková, Soňa Stanovská and Simona Maceková, placed second in the championship.

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Grigar seems to be on top form, three weeks before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Sme daily wrote on July 18. He was  not 100-percent self-confident in the finals but he was absolutely happy about the result. “I just finished the finals at a world championship in the under 23 category, and I won in three-and-a-half seconds – which made me really happy,” he said, as quoted by TASR. “The feeling is gorgeous… I was quite lucky in my race – I do not even quite know how. I had to unintentionally risk some of the gates, I pushed myself at them, and I managed to get a good time for the whole race. I really did not expect it; for the whole week, I had problems in training and racing, and even in this race, I did not have the impression it would turn out so good. But it turned out well, I rejoice – as everybody around me seems to, too,” Grigar told the Slovak Association of White-water Canoeing (SZKDV.

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