Chinese surprise in C2 category
Without two touches made in the Finals no one would have beaten Hochschorner brothers. Despite the penalisation, they finished on the second position loosing on 33 hundreds of second against Chinese Hu a Shu, who were clean reaching the time 108.05. Bronze medal goes to Polish boat Szczepanski-Pochwala (108.70). Shocking can be called the mistake of Volf and Štěpánek (second in the semi-finals) who finished on the last position in the Finals.
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Interviews with competitors - Corinna Kuhnle, Jana Dukatova, Leanna Guinea
The first day of the World Cup has already finished
The first day of the World Cup, which was devoted to the qualification runs, have already finished and the course for semifinal and final race has been prepared. The semifinal and final runs of C1 and C2 categories will be hold tommorrow. The kayakers will show their best on Sunday. Although in the area of artificial course there was heavily raining in the morning, during the day the weather was steadily improving. May be because of improved weather a lot of visitors came to support their favorites. The water level of Vltava River was stabile and didn't endanger today's race.
Austrian kayaker Corinna Kuhnle won the qualification race
Corinna Kuhnle in her first run. Thanks to the very good second run (89.13s) the second place belongs to Slovakian winner od World Cup 2009 Jana Dukátová. The third place is occupied by British Laura Blakeman, who was the second after the first run ( 90.67s), but in the second run she missed one gate and the penalization of 50 s was added to her time. The fourth was the best Czech for today Irena Pavelková, who managed to go through all gates in 91.04s.
The results of category C1 men - qualification
Austrian Kuhnle won the first run of category K1W
Interview with C1 paddler Leanne Guinea
The World Cup has already been started
The World Cup began with the qualiciation of category C1 women. The best time in the first run 105, 57s reached only sixteen years old Australian paddler Jaeesica Fox. The race has been continuing with the category C1 men and C2 men. The second run of these categories will be hold in the morning as well.
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The results of category C1 women
Because before the race the jury decided that the best twenty women will go to the semifinal, all sixteen brave women, who were today competing in this category, passed their race successfully and we can see them in the tommorrow's semifinal. The best Czech paddler for today was Kateřina Hošková, who was 4th and reached time107,05s.