image/Facebook
Vejen, Denmark — Juniors Georgia Singe and Holly Smith raced to South Africa’s first gold medal at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Vejen Denmark on Friday morning and that result was followed a short while later by a bronze medal for Saskia Hockly.
After a tight battle over six laps that included four portages, the Western Cape duo of Singe and Smith beat off the challenge from the Spanish pairing of Maria Martinez and Lidia Zornoza with Hungarians Janka Reisz and Klaudia Kmetyo third.
Singe and Smith were sixth and 10th respectively in the junior K1 race on...
Vejen, Denmark — THE final day of the 2023 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Vejen, Denmark proved to be a case of close but no silverware as the South African team finished seventh overall on the medal table.
Two tight fourth-place finishes was just not enough as the Nicole Birkett / Jade Wilson and Bruno Cochrane / Luke Salmon crews ended tantalisingly close to medal positions in the women’s and juniors’ medal positions respectively on the final day’s action on Sunday.
Birkett and Wilson approached the final sprint in the women’s doubles race as part of the lead group, but just could...
