First up in Rio this morning was the K2 1000-meter final. The German pair of Max Renschmidt and Marcus Gross took the gold with the unbelievably fast time of 3 minutes, 10.781 seconds. That was just 188 thousandths of a second faster than the silver-medal boat paddled by Marko Tomicevic and Milenko Zoric of Serbia. The complete results are posted here.
Next came the C1 200-meter final, in which eighth (last) place was less than one full second behind first place. The top five finishers broke 40 seconds. The winner was a Ukranian, Iurii Cheban, who paddled an Olympic-best 39.279 seconds. The results for this final, along with the "B" final (for the next eight fastest paddlers from the semifinal), are posted here.
In the K2 200 meters, the top six were bunched within .024 second of one another. The Spaniard pair of Saul Craviotto and Cristian Toro crossed the line first in 32.075 seconds. The results are here.
Today's sprint session concluded with the K1W 500-meter final. Danusia Kozák of Hungary, already a gold medalist this week in the K2W 500 meters, won going away in 1 minute, 52.494 seconds. Lisa Carrington of New Zealand also became a double medalist by following up Tuesday's 200-meter gold with a bronze today. The results are here.
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