The national canoe team got off to a brilliant start at the Marathon World Championships, currently in Argentina and running through to 25 October, with two medals on day one of competition, 22 October.
Duarte Cunha and Gabriel Fernandes won the C2 Junior event in Gualeguaychú, Argentina, on the day Leonardo Barbosa guaranteed silver in the C1 sub-23 and Martim Conceição bronze in the K1 Junior. With these results, Portugal has already added seven podiums to the world championship.
The President of the Republic congratulated the canoeists Duarte Cunha and Gabriel Fernandes for the world title of C2 junior in the World Marathon Canoeing in Argentina, which gave Portugal the seventh medal in the competition.