With success returned from Italy and China soldiers of the Central Military Sports squad who competed in the European Championships in Sailing and in the Super Bowl of the global Canoe Federation. Szer. Paweł Tarnowski won gold in the iQFoil windsurfing class, and the canoeists won 3 medals: 2 wide. Claudia Zwolińska and 1 general, Viktor Głazunov.
Paweł Tarnowski at the Paris Olympics, August 2024. Illustration picture.
About the final of the championship event in the Olympic fencing season. Paweł Tarnowski dreamed for many months. At the Paris Games Unfortunately, he failed to fulfill his dreams. He was very close to a direct promotion to the race deciding about the division of medals – he had a good chance to win the primary phase of the Olympic regatta. However, everything was crossed off by the last failed start. Meanwhile, in Cagliari in the south of Sardinia, where the European championship was held, a sailor from the “arm of champions” won the qualification and without having to compete in the quarterfinals and the semifinals waited for rivals who would advance to the final. In the deciding medals the Pole finished in the first position. This time he did not miss the chance to safe a place on the highest phase of the podium and as a reward he was played Mazurek Dąbrowski.
Szer. Paweł Tarnowski must have triumphed in the qualifications in which the organizers managed to run 11 races: six slalom and 5 alleged course race. The Pole won 3 of them: the first, the second and the eleventh, was the second in the eighth and ninth, the 3rd in the sixth and tenth, the 5th in the 3rd and the ninth in the seventh. The 2 worst results did not number for scoring – in these races they ranked 11th and 15th. In the final, his rivals were 2 British: Andy Brown (he finished second in the semifinal) and Matthew Barton (he won the semifinal). UK representatives in the fight for the final eliminated Dutchr Joost Vink and Italian Luca Di Tomassi from further competition. A large surprise was only the 10th place of the bronze medalist from the Paris Games and the world's runner-up from 2022 and this year's bronze planet Cup medalist Luca van Opzeeland from the Netherlands.
In the final, the Pole did not give the lead from start to finish. “The race was fast, dynamic, and even though I was leading from start to finish, my opponents were virtually on my tail, so there was quite a few stress,” said the sailor from the “arm of masters” in social media. He besides stressed that he was very happy that he won this medal as a soldier of the Polish Army. The title of runner-up of the Old Continent was won by Andy Brown, and 3rd place was taken by Matthew Barton.
On the another hand, 3 medals from Chinese Hangzhou brought kayakers from the Central Military Sports Team. In China, the best players from canoe discipline competed in the SuperCup competition held under the patronage of the global Canoe Federation. On the mountain canoeing track, the Olympic runner-up in the K-1 competition was very good. Wide. Claudia Zwolińska. The CWZS canoe won 2 medals: silver in the K-1 final (lost only with French Camille Prigent) and brown on a short tour for slalom ones. On the shorter but more technically hard way Polka lost to Prigent and Dutch Martina Wegman.
On the another hand, in competition in the canoe sprinkling bronze medal in the final of the Canadian twos at a distance of 500 m won the range. Wiktor Głazunow. Polish partner on the regatta track in Hangzhou was Sergei Tarnovschi from Moldova. Furthermore, the typical of CWZS ranked second in final B in competition C-1 500 m. He besides competed in a mixed pair race, but together with Hungarian Balla Virág he failed to qualify for the A final.
