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.

Australian Rosalyn Lawrence was the best in the women canoe single final with a time 118.10. Thanks to that, she gained the over-all victory in the World Cup series as her strongest rival Leanne Guinea (AUS) ended up down sixth.

 

Kateřina Hošková (CZE), the leader of all the previous runs, crossed the finish line in the second fastest time 121.20. Caroline Loir (FRA) won the bronze medal.

Daniele Molmenti (ITA), current world champion, won the Men Kayak semifinal With a time 88.32 . The fastest man from the heats, Vavřinec Hradílek (CZE), was second on today course with a time 90.18 thanks to a safe run. The third fastest time clocked the promising young German kayaker Hannes Aigner.

Complete results of the K1M semifinal can be found here.

Eventually, Alexander Slafkovsky (SVK) gained the day in the single canoe men final. He clocked 94.85 and he's going to take the gold medal out of Troja. For only 8 hundreths slower was French kayaker Denis Chanut Gargaut. David Florence (GBR) holds the third position with a time 96.50.

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.