Cuban Duet wins Gold Medal in Canoe Sprint World Cup

Cubans Seguey Torres and Fernando D. Jorge won the gold medal today in the C-2 men 1000m event, in the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup, based in the Hungarian city of Szeged.

According to the website of the International Canoe Federation (ICF), Torres and Jorge won with time of 3: 35.734 minutes, followed by the Chinese duo of Hao Liu and Hao Wang (3: 36.712) and Russians Ilya Pervukhin-Kirill Shamshurin (3: 36.823), in that order.

The Cuban duet, sixth seat in the Rio 2016 Olympics, will compete again this Sunday, but separately, in the individual events (C-1) and in the distance of 5000 meters.

With this result, they improved the silver medal achieved in this same contest in 2017.

Last year, Torres and Jorge had a terrific performance in the WC of Montemor-O-Velho, Portugal, when winning the C-2 Men 1000m event as well as gold and silver medals respectively in the C-1 5000m events.

Also last season, the Cuban C-2 ranked second in the World Cup of Racice, Czech Republic.