Vavřinec Hradílek won the gold medal, Kauzer won the World Cup serie
Men kayak turned out to be a continuation of the struggle between Vavřinec Hradílek (CZE) and the current world champion Daniele Molmenti (ITA). However, the Italian kayaker, who started as the last one thanks to his victory in the semifinal, wasn't able to overcome Hradílek's time (88.60) in the dramatic ending. Nonetheless, the difference was a mere 5 hundreths of a second. Thus, Vavřinec Hradílek will be given the gold medal, and Molmenti the silver one.
The bronze medal will belong to one of the best current kayakers Peter Kauzer (SLO), whose time 90.02 was good enough not only for the third place but even for the victory in the whole World Cup serie. The Czech kayaker Luboš Hilgert ended up on the fourth place with a time 90.19.
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The third Czech kayaker Jiří Prskavec ended up sixth, followed by Hannes Aigner (GER), whose run wasn't as good as the previous one, that placed him on the third position in the semifinal.