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The Canadian Press
DARTMOUTH, N.S. — Canada's rising star of canoe racing takes home gold, silver and bronze medals at the World Championships on Sunday as crowds roared its approval by Lake Banook in Dartmouth, New South Wales. Did.
Katie Vincent and Connor Fitzpatrick started slow and picked up the pace to win the canoe over her 500m distance and become the world champions of the event.
Their victory came after about 90 minutes when Sophia Jensen, 20, from Chelsea, Quebec, took the silver medal, and in the 500m, world champion Lyudmiralzan (Ukraine) within a second of her. I finished by a margin.
Paddlers were enraptured by the result, saying the crowd's cheers made them realize they were in contention for a medal and the adrenaline pumping in a "crazy fight to the end".
The Halifax duo of 26-year-old Craig Spence and her 24-year-old Brett Himmelman also won bronze for Canada in her grueling 1,000m canoe final in the midday heat.
An exhausted Spence had to sit on the pier with ice around his neck after the race, while he won a medal in front of his friends and family at his home lake. He says that what he was able to obtain was "a dream come true."
Vincent, 26, from Mississauga, Ontario, gave up her title as reigning world champion in the 200-meter women's sprint, where she finished fifth in a race under a second, yielded strong results. top athlete.
On Saturday, two-time Olympians Andreanne Langlois and Toshka Besharah-Hrebacka announced that a new partnership in women's kayaking earned her a bronze medal in her K-2 200m sprint. showed.
Besharah-Hreback is just 19 years old and is competing in her first senior competition. Langlois is 29 years old and a veteran of the world stage.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on August 7, 2022.
