Brother Martin and Valent Sinkovic won the gold medal in coxless pairs at the European Rowing Championships in Varese!
The Sinkovic brothers led throughout the race and deservedly celebrated in the end, passing through the finish line with a time of 6:23.37. Second place was taken by the Italian crew, and in third was the team from Serbia. Earlier in the day, sisters Ivana and Josipa Jurković took fifth place in the women’s competition of the same discipline.
Damir Martin will fight in the singles final at 3:06 pm.
You might recall that the Sinkovic brothers won silver at the European Championship held last year, which was the only rowing competition held in the pandemic year.
Until this European Championship, the Sinkovic brothers have won 11 European, world, and Olympic gold medals, four silver medals, and one bronze medal as members of the foursome, double sculls, and coxless pairs. They moved to the coxless pairs discipline after the Olympic Games in Rio.
“A phenomenal race and it is wonderful to be the European champion again after last year when the Romanians surprised us. It is the Olympic year and we can hardly wait for new races, especially the historic one, the first World Championships in Zagreb,” said Valent Sinković.
“We had a great feeling for the past three or four weeks and this was a really good race. However, the season has just begun, and we know what our goal is – Olympic gold in Tokyo,” said Martin Sinković.
In the first major competition in the new discipline, they won silver at the 2017 World Championships and then won gold at the European Championships and World Champs in 2018 and 2019, before surprisingly finishing second behind Romanian team Cozmius and Tudose.
The next competition and another stop on the way to the Olympics in Tokyo is the World Rowing Championship, which is being held for the first time in history at Zagreb’s Jarun from April 30 to May 2.
We will have more after Damir Martin’s final race at 3 pm! Stay tuned!
Source: HRT
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