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Like a year ago at the Rotsee, double scull Roman Röösli / Barnabé Delarze also won the silver medal at the Poznan European Championship. Sofia Meakin also finished second on the lightweight single.
Midway through, Röösli / Delarze were still in the lead, but then they had no chance against Dutch Stef Broenink / Melvin Twellaar. In the end, the difference was 2.1 seconds. The two reached a podium for the third time at the European Championships after taking bronze in 2017. Röösli even secured the fourth medal in a row this time around, as he finished third on the Skiff in 2018.
Meakin, 22, only had to admit defeat to Dutch Martine Veldhuis, who dominated the race from A to Z, in the final. The 1.83m tall Geneva woman, who is paired with Delarze, spent the first half time at the 500m in fourth place, in the middle of the race she took third place before beating Italian Paola Piazzolla in last quarter of the race. In general, it was increasing in Poland. In the run-up to Friday, she only qualified in fifth place and finished second behind Piazzolla. At last year’s European Championship, Meakin took an ungrateful fourth place. The lightweight is not an Olympic discipline.
Rank 5 only for Gmelin
For skier Jeannine Gmelin it was a disappointment at the Poznan European Championships. The 2018 world champion had to settle for 5th place. In the three halves, the 30-year-old from Zurich Oberland came in fourth before dropping a position in the final 500m. He lacked 2.19 seconds for bronze. In the last three European Championships, Gmelin had won gold once (2018) and silver twice (2015 and 2019). Irish Sanita Puspure, world champion for the past two years, successfully defended her title.
Light double scull Andri Struzina / Jan Schäuble also finished in fifth place. The double female quartet, a project with a view to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, took sixth place with the cast of Pascale Walker, Lisa Lötscher, Ella von der Schulenburg and Salome Ulrich.
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