In the heat and in the semi-final we tested different tactics to come up with our plan for the final, which worked well.” “For us, we treated each race differently. “The intensity is very close, and when you are in a final anything is possible,” Carre said. The Germans were missing from Sunday’s race, and the Spanish had to settle for bronze behind the powerful French combination. There was also a first ever gold medal for Joana Vasconcelos of Portugal in the women’s K1 500, while the Russian veterans Kirill Shamshurin and Ilya Pervukhin won the men’s C2 1000.Ĭarre and Hubert took the bronze in the K2 1000 at last year’s world championships, finishing behind the German powerhouse combination of Max Hoff and Jakob Schopf and Spaniards Francisco Cubelos and Inigo Pena. France and Ukraine picked up two gold medals each on the final day of competition at the ICF canoe sprint world cup in Szeged, Hungary, the only international competition to be held in 2020 because of the Covid pandemic.įrance and Ukraine both triumphed in the K4 500, while Ukraine’s Liudmyla Luzan picked up her second gold medal of the weekend by teaming up with Anastasia Chetverikova to win the women’s C2 500, and Cyrille Carre and Etienne Hubert teamed up to win the men’s K2 1000 for France.
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