Videos on participants in Prague - Troja
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Hochschorners winning the C2 semi-final
Bratři Hochschornerové.
Hochschorner brothers from Slovakia have confirmed their status of favourites reaching the 105.63 time in the semi-final race. Second place has been taken by Czechs Volf and Štěpánek with time difference of three second (108.75), strongly supported by Czech audience. They have improved their position substantially as they finished on the eighteenth position in the Heats. Third best result has been achieved by Germans Becker-Henze with time 109.95 followed by Brits Baillie-Stott (110.46). For the complete results please use the following link .
Ladies canoe got overruled by Chinese
Ladies´ canoe category brought a great surprise. The first and the second place took Chinese athletes Nangin Cen (129.86) and Qianqian Teng (137.03). Jessica Fox, who had been sovereign before, missed the gate despite an excellent first part. The third position in the Finals full of Eskimo rolls goes to Katarína Macová (141.53).
Jane celebrates victory
Czech representative Michal Jáně, who went to the course as second paddler wasn´t beaten throughout the whole race. His time 98.69 remained the fastest even after the run of Stanislav Ježek, the winner of the semi-finals, who finished at the 5th position at the end. Slovenian Benjamin Savšek (100.10) who became second in the World Cup Ranking in 2009, took the silver, and European Champion from 2008 Alexander Slafkovský (100.36), bronze position.
The first run of K1M was dominated by Alexander Grimm
The first run of category K1M finished too. The best time was reached by
Alexander Grimm from Germany - 79.50s, followed by the winner of World Cup Series 2009 Peter Kauzer from Slovenia(79.93). The third was Czech kayaker Vavřinec Hradílek (80.74s). The second run of this category is beginning at 17.21. As in all categories only the better time is counted to the final results. Only 40 athletes will have chance to compete in Sunday's semifinal race.
Kayaker Grimm was better in the second run
Vavřinec Hradílek
Brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner dominated the category C2
The qualifiction of C2 men was dominated by brother's couple Pavol and Peter Hochschorner from Slovakia, who won the last three Olympic Games and are multiple World and European Champions. They reached time 90.15s and go to tommorow's semifinal.The second was British couple Baillie-Stott with time 92.06s, the third were German representatives Becker a Henze with time 92.21s. All of the Czech couples successfully passed this race and we can seen and support them in tommorrow's race, in which best 20 couples will start. The detailed results are here.
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
(VIDEO) Short video made during World Cup in Prague - Troja. You have a chance to watch interviesw with Corinnu Kuhnle (AUT), world champion Jana Dukatovou and Leanne Guinea (AUS). Videos were made for ICF by Sportscene - Media Productions & Advisory Services.