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Bronze medal for Fisher and Thompson in the ICF Canoe Sprint Junior World Champs

Monday 5 August 2013, 1:10PM

By Canoe Racing New Zealand Inc.

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The junior K2 team of Kim Thompson and Aimee Fisher capped off a very successful World Championship in Canada today with their bronze medal in the 500m.  It was a very close race for the third spot with the Romanian and Spanish teams clearly taking first and second respectively.  The Canadian and Polish teams were right up there with our girls the whole race and the third spot was anyone’s guess as they crossed the finish line - a real nail-biter! This is the first time a New Zealand team has medalled at the ICF Junior World Champs ... not to mention the seven A finals and two B finals achieved by the team as a whole! Watch the race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvhsgJHtdxk

Aimee also raced a stunning K1 200m to place fifth in the world just 1.478 seconds behind the Danish winner Emma Jorgensen and only split seconds off a third placing.  

The U23 Mens K4 of Darryl Fitzgerald, Jasper Bats, Zac Quickenden and Jarrod Fitzgerald narrowly beat the Aussie crew of Rypp/Smith/Bain/Wood to their sixth position in a time of 2.55.280. 

The other A final of the day was raced by U23 paddler Caitlyn Ryan in the K1 500m who placed eighth in a time of 1.51.724,  2.5 seconds behind the French winner Sarah Guyot. 

B final racing saw young Kurtis Imrie place ninth in the 200m and Danielle Currie place third in the 500m. 

The coaching team of Bianca Teague, Andras Szabo and Alan Thompson will be very happy with the team’s results over this championship - the best result in the past for this championship having been Lisa Carrington's 2007 third place in a B final.  If her progress is anything to go by this young team is well on their way to kayaking success! 

 

Day 4 

Event

Paddlers

Sun 4/8

Mon 5/8

 

141  

Jun MK1 200m    B Final

Kurtis Imrie

9.05am

1.05am

9th in 38.028 (-01.958)

146

Jun WK1 200        A Final

Aimee Fisher

9.30am

1.30am

5th in 42.512 (-01.478)

160

Jun WK1 500m    B Final

Danielle Currie

2.15pm

6.15am

3rd in 2.00.512 (-03.022)

164

U23 WK1 500m   A Final

Caitlyn Ryan

2.43pm

6.43am

8th in 1.51.724 (-02.503)

166

U23 MK4 1000m   A Final

Z Quickenden, D Fitzgerald, J Bats, J Fitzgerald

3.17pm

7.17am

6th in 2.55.280 (-04.549)

167

Jun WK2 500m   A Final

K Thompson, A Fisher 

3.38pm

7.38am

3rd in 1.44.601 (-01.383)

 

Timetable and Resultshttp://canoeniagara.spotfokus.pt/results/ 
Live Broadcasts :           http://canoeniagara2013.etherelive.tv/