After an exciting opening day featuring the Men’s and Women’s RX categories, today the spotlight turned to the Para-Rafting and Mix categories at the 2025 World Rafting Championships in Aluminé, Neuquén, Argentina.
Local spectators and all the delegations cheering on the banks witnessed strategy, tactics, and careful observation of the other teams as athletes fought their way through the Patagonia rapids.
PARA-RAFTING
Brazil 1 (Ariel Ton, Paulo Righeto Scantimburgo, Thiago Diniz Barne Ganeo, Rafael Mahn Iori, Francisco Kess)
Italy 1 (Riccardo Novella, Rosario Sperandini, Riccardo Novella and Zeno Martini)
Colombia 1 (Jesús David Acevedo Arenas, Edwin Andres Rueda Duarte, Jorge Arturo Rios Caceres, Norberto De Jesus Jaimes Valbuena)
MIX
AIN 2 (Valentina Kozhanova, Vera Malakhova, Dmitry Akchin, Андрей Ковязин)
Italy 1 (Marianna Tedeschi, Francesca Leonardi, Sara Amonini, Mattia Felini, Nicholas Moretto)
Argentina 2 (Juan Miño, Abril Sotelo, Romina Florencia Celentano, Rocío Aldana Sepúlveda, Facundo Santomartino)
Tomorrow marks the final day of competition, with the Slalom discipline — the purest test of technical skill — set to determine the Overall World Champions 2025.
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