The path of the national canoe speed at the Tokyo Olympic Games begins on the right foot.
In the Sea Forest Waterway basin Francesca Genzo and Samuele Burgo 'wet' their Olympic debut, both winning the pass for the semifinals.
The first to go into the water was the Trieste in the heats of the K1 200 meters: 41.198 the time of the 27 year old who is worth the second place and direct access to the semifinals.
Genzo sprints in front of everyone, suffers the return of the Danish Emma Jorgensen (41,572) but resists the attack in the final by the Croatian Anamaria Govorcinovic.
The blue will occupy the third lane in tomorrow's second semifinal, the goal is to get into the best eight.
In K1 1000 meters Samuele Burgo is forced to an extra turn after having closed his heat with time (3.43.746). In the quarter-finals, thanks to an exceptional recovery in the second part of the race, the 23-year-old from Syracuse stops the clock on a time of 3.45.993, beating the Russian Roman Anoshkin (2.46.576) in second place and qualifying for the semifinal.
Best time for the Belgian Artuur Peters in 3.45.715.