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Champion paddler Cheban edges into final as Brazil's Queiroz Dos Santos aims for second medal
RIO DE JANEIRO - Men's canoe single (C1) 200m champion Iurii CHEBAN (UKR) just squeezed into the Rio 2016 final during racing at the Lagoa Stadium on Wednesday.
CHEBAN, who took gold at the London 2012 Olympic Games, was third in his semifinal, winning the last qualifying place on the basis of his time and pushing out Oleg TARNOVSCHI (MDA), whose brother Serghei won bronze in the C1 1000m on Tuesday.
Isaquias QUEIROZ DOS SANTOS (BRA), who took silver in the 1000m, is on course for another podium place after qualifying fastest for
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Korea box on in Olympic K2 debut
Korea’s decision to have a K1 200 team in Rio came late, but Minkyu Choi and Gwanghee Cho are not complaining.
In a country where competitive sprint canoeing is starting to develop, both Choi and Cho are excited to be representing Korea at an Olympics.
Cho had already qualified for the K1, but up until a few months ago he and Choi had rarely set foot in a boat together.
“We’ve been paddling together for about four months,” Choi said.
“Last year Gwanghee qualified at the World Championships, but then our Korean Government wanted to have
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Rodriguez makes mark on Olympic debut
Mexico’s Marcos Pulido Rodriguez has had to do it the tough way to get to Rio, but now that he’s here he’s having a ball.
Rodriguez began in the sport just before the London Olympics, but at that time competing for his country was only a pipedream.
“I began because some of my friends from college invited me about five years ago,” Rodriguez said.
“I am the only one from Mexico. I will continue working for the future, it is a big task ahead.”
20-year-old Rodriguez earmarked the 2015 World U23 Championships in Portugal as an important lead-up race, but competing was...Read more
Canoe Sprint events starting on 17 August: preview facts
RIO DE JANEIRO - Preview facts for canoe sprint events starting on Wednesday 17 August at Lagoa Stadium.
Men's canoe single 200m
LI Qiang (CHN) could give China its first gold medal in an individual canoe sprint event.
MENG Guanliang (CHN) and YANG Wenjun (CHN) are the only Chinese medallists in canoe sprint at the Olympic Games. They won gold in men's canoe double 500m at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.
LI finished second in this event at last year's world championships and at the World Cup events in
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Van Koeverden happy to allow changing of K1 Men 1000m guard
Decorated Canadian sprint canoeist Adam van Koeverden closed the door on his Olympic career in Rio on Tuesday, chuffed he had won his last ever race, and happy to be witnessing a changing of the guard in the men’s K1 1000.
34-year-old van Koeverden won the B final of the K1 1000, and walks away with the full collection of Olympic medals – a gold and bronze from Athens, and silver medals from Beijing and London.
“In one interpretation I got to win my last race, which is nice,” van Koeverden said.
“Sometimes the last chapter of a
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Canoeing family in mourning after tragic death of German coach Stefan Henze
The International canoeing community is shocked and deeply saddened by the death of Olympic silver medallist and German slalom coach Stefan Henze.
Henze succumbed on Monday to injuries he sustained in a car accident in Rio on Friday morning.
His family were beside him when he died.
German Canoe Federation President, Thomas Konietzko, said the death will leave an enormous hole in German canoeing.
“He was an Olympic silver medal winner, he was a coach,” Mr Konietzko said.
“With the bottom of his heart he worked to
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