Kateřina Hošková (CZE) performed a perfect run in single canoes women semifinal, by which she definitely confirmed her leader position she gained after heats. Even though she slowed down in the finishing straight, her time was undoubtedly the best (121.84). The second fastest time 125.47 belongs to British canoeist Mallory Franklin, the third position holds Qianqian Teng (CHN), who was only one tenth slower than Franklin.

The complete results of women single canoes can be found here.

In the only semifinal runs of men single canoe Stanislav Ježek confirmed his favoured position by finishing in the fastest time 95.64. Zhiqiang Teng (CHN) also had a really good run, his time had been the best until Ježek'r run. Only one hundreth slower was David Florence (GBR) .

 

See the complete results here.

Todays semifinal and final runs of single canoe men and women, and kayakers is available to watch online in the live tv sport channel ČT4. You can watch it not only on tv, but even through the internet broadcast.

Similarly to women qualification, the best time from the first round remained unexceeded. Thus, the first place belongs to Vavřinec Hradílek. He himself cooled down and let spectators enjoy his race. However, Luboš Hilgert improved his time and got himself onto the second place with a time 84.70. Peter Kauzer also showed he's in form here by improving his time to 84.91. Due to this time, Czech kayaker Jiří Prskavec had been shelved onto the fourth position (time 85.24).

 

Here you can find the complete results of K1M qualification. 

There will be forty semifinalists competing tomorrow morning, the best of them will take part in finals tomorrow afternoon.

 No celebrity will be missing in the semifinals – the world champion Danielle Molmenti (ITA), the winner of the olympic games in Beijing Alexander Grimm (GER), not even the Schwitzerland kayaker Michael Kurt, who missed the gate in his first heat.

The leading time 97.39 achieved by Ireny Pavelkové (CZE) from the first heats wasn't overcome in the second heats. Melanie Pfeifer (GER), third after the first qualification races, displaced Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE) to the third position, as she improved to 98.28 in the latter half of the qualification. On the contrary, Štěpánka Hilgertová was a bit slower, altogether with two touches it was 104.47 in the second race for her. Claudia Baer (GER) established herself as the fourth fastest woman kayaker in the qualification by not going over 100 seconds (99.44). Then there's a favoured Jana Dukátová (SVK) on the fifth position with a time from her first heat 100.25.

Vavřinec Hradílek, a Czech kayaker, finished his race in more then four seconds earlier than other competitors in the first heat K1M. Peter Kauzer from Slovenia with 86.46 and Sebasten Schubert from Germany with 86.73 were the closest to his time 82.43. 

Irena Pavelková (CZE) presented herself with faultless, consummate ride. She was the first to overcome the one hundred second limit with a time 97.39. After her, the only one that reached this limit was Štěpánka Hilgertové (CZE) with a time 99.29. The third place occupies Melanie Pfeifer(GER), who clocked 100.24. Favoured Jana Dukátová (SVK) ended up just one hundreth after the German competiter.

There were only hundreths between the time of cousins Škantárs and brothers Hochschorners in both of the qualification runs. Nevertheless, Škantár's duo avoided mistakes and their final time was 96.88, whilst Hochschorners had the two seconds penalty, and their final time was 98.09. French canoeists Gauthier Klauss and Matthieu Peche kept themselves on the third place, even though they had a bad luck during their second run.

 

There are also four Czech crews between the twenty semifinalists. Complete results available here.

 

Double canoe semifinal takes place on Sunday morning, the final on Sunday afternoon.