The kayak pair Yoana Georgieva (pictured) and Pamela Ivanova finished fifth at the European Junior Championships in Romania, BTA reports. The Bulgarians recorded a time of 1:46.642 minutes, 3.003 seconds behind the winners from Germany.
Three Bulgarian boats placed seventh in the finals in different disciplines. In the boys, David Kivel placed seventh in the 500m single A final with a time of 1:58.723 minutes, while in the shorter 200m discipline, canoeist Daria Pavlyuk placed seventh in the battle for the under-23 girls medals with a time of 49.979 seconds. Preslav Georgiev took seventh position in the junior boys' single canoe final with a time of 41.717 seconds.
Martin Teodosiev finished eighth (200m, canoe, junior) in the A final, achieving a time of 43.539 seconds.
Branimir Dimitrov (200 m, canoe, juniors) placed second in the B final, Erika Savova (200 m, canoe, girls U18) was second in the B final. ) finished third in the B final, Georgi Nikolov (200 m, canoe, juniors) placed fourth in the B final, the junior kayak foursome of Kaloyan Zahariev, Jan Khalil, Yavor Georgiev and Emil Yordanov finished sixth in the 500 m B final, and in the 200 m U18 single canoe A final Radostina Angelova was disqualified.
This left Bulgaria with one medal from the championships in Romania - bronze for Branimir Hristov and Preslav Simeonov in the 1000 m double canoe.
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