Rodrigo Conde, fifth at the World Cup in Luzern

Rower moanés Rodrigo Conde and his partner in a duo without a rudder, Alex Garciahe ended up in fifth place in the end world cup rowing held last weekend at Lucerne. With a time of 6:14:00, they were nine seconds behind the sellers, the Dutch pair Melvin Twellaar and Stefan Broeninkwhich test ended with a result of 04/06/59.

The podium was completed by the Croatian duo they make up Martin and Valent Sinkovićwho was the best in the last round, and the Irish Daire Lynch and Philip Doyle. The Romanians were also ahead of the Spaniards Florin Arteni and Ciprian Tudosa. Only the New Zealanders are lagging behind Robert and Benjamin Masonwho set a better time than the Galician and his partner on Saturday.

Conde and Garcia were from less to more this entire competition, because they did not have their day in the first regatta and were condemned to look for a ticket to the semi-finals in the playoffs. Although they did it solidly and improved their sensations considerably, García also recognized that the accumulated fatigue took its toll in the semi-finals, in which they were third in their series. All in all, he was confident that he would have more time to recover ahead of the medal fight and be able to improve his performance. He world is the next big challenge.

The other four Spanish boats qualified for the finals of the Swiss competition also finished fifth in their respective races. It was the case Aina Cid and Esther Brizin the duo without a coxswain, as well as the world runner-up JAimee Canalejo and javier garcia in the men’s pair without a coxswain, i Dennis Carracedo and Caetano Horta in the men’s light doubles final.