HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 3 (ACN) Cubans Serguey Torres and Fernando Dayan Jorge, multiple World Cup medalists, were crowned Olympic champions on Monday in a hard-fought final, where they surpassed the Chinese over the finish line in the 1,000-meter tandem canoe (C2-1000) in Tokyo, Japan.
The Cubans were third until the 750 meters, but then they placed second, to epically come back in the final until the Olympic glory, against a Chinese duo that was immense from the beginning.
Serguey and Fernando Dayan clocked 3:24.995 minutes, Olympic record, while the Chinese Hao Liu and Pengfei Zheng registered 3:25.198 and the German champions of Rio de Janeiro 2016 Sebastian Brendel and Tim Hecker, reached bronze, with 3:25.615.
In summer events, Cuba also boasts three silver medals in canoeing, won by Leobaldo Pereira and Ibrahim Rojas in the C2-1000 and Ledy Frank Balceiro in the C1-1000 in Sydney 2000, and Rojas and Balceiro in the C2-500 in Athens 2004.
Cuba accumulates in Tokyo three medals of each color (gold, silver and bronze), in 16th place in the medal standings.
Cubans win gold with Olympic record in 1,000-meter tandem canoeing
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