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NEWS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS CANOE / KAYAK FLATWATER RACING 2002

SEVIILLE  - SPAIN

"The Top 9"

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2002, FINALS. 

WOMEN. K4, 1000 m

 1. Joanna Skowron/Karolina Sadalska/Aneta Bialkowskla/
    Aneta Pastuszka                                      POL    3:17,007
 2. Kina Fan/Yi Gao/Linbei Xu/Hongyan Zhong              CHN    3:17,194  
 3. Katalin Moni/Alexandra Xeresztesi/Erzsebet Viski/
    Timea Paksy                                          HUN    3:18,487
 4. Chantal Meek/Amanda Rankin/Lisa Oldenhof/Paula 
    Harvey                                               AUS    3:18,601
 5. Anca Mateescu/Florica Vulpes/Lidia Rusanescu/
    Mariana Ciobanu                                      ROM    3:20,320  
 6. Nataly Fikilisova/Inna Osipenko/OlenaCherevatova/
    Hanna Balabanova                                     UKR    3:20,430
 7. Natalia Bondarenko/Alena Bets/ Svetlana Vakula/
    Alesia Bakunova                                      BLR    3:22,727
 8. Alejandra Oliete/Ana Varala/Claudia Garcia/
    Laura Garcia                                         ESP    3:26,053
 9. Sara Hopkins/Karen Furneaux/CarrieLightbound/
    Kamini Jain                                          CAN    3:27,006  

  
MEN. C1, 1000 m

 1.  Andreas Dittmer                                     GER    3:49,031
 2.  Maxim Opalev                                        RUS    3:49,644
 3.  Stephen Giles                                       CAN    3:50,737
 4.  Karel Aguilar                                       CUB    3:53,164
 5.  Stanimir Atanasov                                   BUL    3:53,384 
 6.  Martin Doktor                                       CZE    3:53,457
 7.  Roman Bundz                                         UKR    3:56,150
 8.  Gyorgy Kolonics                                     HUN    3:57,363
 9.  Dagnis Vinogradovs                                  LAT    3:57,390

    
MEN. K1, 1000 m

 1.  Eirik Veras-Larsen                                  NOR    3:27,586  
 2.  Javier Correa                                       ARG    3:28,273  
 3.  Adam Seroczynski                                    POL    3:28,400
 4.  Roei Yellin                                         ISR    3:28,560
 5.  Nathan Baggaley                                     AUS    3:29,306
 6.  Torsten Tranum Jensen                               DEN    3:29,380
 7.  Zsombor Borhi                                       HUN    3:29,433
 8.  Lutz Liwowski                                       GER    3:30,193
 9.  Bob Maesen                                          BEL    3:31,979


WOMEN. K1, 1000 m

 1.  Katalin Kovacs                                      HUN    3:53,340
 2.  Katrin Wagner                                       GER    3:53,920
 3.  Josefa Idem                                         ITA    3:54,770
 4.  Katrin Borchert                                     AUS    3:54,780
 5.  Caroline Brunet                                     CAN    3:56,787
 6.  Lior Karmi                                          ISR    3:59,566
 7.  Tricia Davey                                        GBR    4:01,579
 8.  Nicole Bulk                                         NED    4:05,806
 9.  Barbora Futerova                                    CZE    4:08,165
 

MEN. C2, 1000 m

 1.  Michal Sliwinski/Marcin Kobierski                   POL    3:32,456
 2.  Ledi F. Balceiro/Ibrahim Rojas                      CUB    3:33,676
 3.  Mike Scarola/Richard Dalton                         CAN    3:33,969
 4.  Silviu Simiocencu/Florin Popescu                    ROM    3:34,069
 5.  Jose A. Bea Garcia/David Mascato                    ESP    3:34,735
 6.  Alexandre Kostoglod/Serguei Ulegin                  RUS    3:35,329
 7.  Jan Kubica/Peter Pales                              SVK    3:36,655
 8.  Gabor Furdok/Csaba Huttner                          HUN    3:39,482
 9.  Jose Lenoir/Yannick Lavigne                         FRA    3:47,454

 
MEN. K2, 1000 m 
 
 1.  Henrik Nilsson/Marcus Oskarsson                     SWE    3:12,625  
 2.  Nils Fjeldlhein/Eirik Veras-Larsen                  NOR    3:13,691
 3.  Krisztian Vereb/Akos Vereckei                       HUN    3:14,438
 4.  Anatoli Tichtchenko/Vladimir Grouchikhine           RUS    3:15,151
 5.  Kim Wraae Knudsen/Mads Kongsgaard                   DEN    3:15,311
 6.  Adam Wysocki/Marek Twardowski                       POL    3:15,478
 7.  Juraj Kadnar/Robert Erban                           SVK    3:16,451
 8.  Ian Wynne/Paul Darby-Dowman                         GBR    3:17,377
 9.  Jernej Zupancic/Jaka Jazbek                         SLO    3:18,664
 

WOMEN. K2, 1000 m

 1.  Kinga Bota/Szilvia Szabo                            HUN    3:37,259  
 2.  Manuela Mucke/Nadine Opgen-Rhein                    GER    3:38,572
 3.  Larissa Pessakhovitch/Adi Gafni                     ISR    3:42,165
 4.  Delyana Dacheva/Bonka Pindzeva                      BUL    3:42,292
 5.  Belen Sanchez/Mari I. Garcia                        ESP    3:43,645
 6.  Kathy Colin/Ruth Nortje                             USA    3:44,025
 7.  Iwona Pyzalska/Dorota Kuczkowska                    POL    3:46,838
 8.  Yi Gao/Lina Fan                                     CHN    3:47,024
 9.  Elena Erchova/Elena Tissina                         RUS    3:49,351
 

MEN. C4, 1000 m

 1. Adam Ginter/Michal Gajownik/Roman Rynkiewicz/
    Andrzej Jezierski                                    POL    3:17,794
 2. Maxime Boilard/Tamas Buday Jr./Attila Buday/
    Dimitri Joukovski                                    CAN    3:18,127
 3. Aleksander Kurlandchick/Aleks. Bogdanovich/
    Semen Saponenko/Aleks. Zhoukovskii                   BUL    3:18,421
 4. Mitica Pricop/Petra Condrat/Iosif Anisim/
    Ionel Averian                                        ROM    3:19,274
 5. Gyorgy Kozmann/Bela Belcza/Gabor Ivan/Ferenc Novak   HUN    3:20,047
 6. Roman Krougliakov/Alexey Volkonskiy/Andrei Kabanov/ 
    Konstantin Fomichev                                  RUS    3:21,854
 7. Zdenek Simecek/Jiri Heller/Jan Brecka/Martin Minarik CZE    3:27,723
 8. Petro Zerkal/Oleksandr Litvinenko/
    Victor Dobrotvorskii/Oleksiy Shpak                   UKR    3:28,856  
 9. Xose Vales/David Curbeira/Jorge Carrazedo/
    Marcel Glavan                                        ESP    3:37,662
 
MEN. K4, 1000 m

 1. Michal Riszdorfer/Erik Vicek/Jurak Baca/
    Richard Riszdorfer                                   SVK    2:52,837 
 2. Bjorn Bach/Stefan Ulm/Andreas Ihle/Marck Zabel       GER    2:52,910
 3. Milko Kasanov/Ivan Hristov/Yordan Yordanov/
    Petar Merkov                                         BUL    2:53,990
 4. Botond Storcz/Roland Kokeny/Gabor Horvath/
    Zoltan Kammerer                                      HUN    2:55,243
 5. Aleksei Skurkovskii/Aleksei Abalmasov/
    Vadim Makhnev/Roman Petrushenko                      BLR    2:55,576
 6. Mattis Naess/Alex Wefald/Per Fevang/Andreas Gjersoe  NOR    2:56,156
 7. Antonio Rossi/Beniamino Bonomi/Luca Piemonte/
    Andrea Facchin                                       ITA    2:56,190
 8. Justin Dean/Simon Martin/David Rhodes/Craig Rodgers  AUS    2:58,803
 9. Jaime Acuna/Aike Gonzales/Oier Aizpurua/Manuel Munoz ESP    2:59,156

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August 31th, 2002.INTERNATIONAL CANOE FEDERATION, Raymond W. Kamber,
PR & Media Director, Hauptstrasse 40, CH-4143 Dornach / Switzerland,
Tel. office 61/703 06 34, Fax 61/701 99 17, Mobil 79/334 19 73
E-mail: raymond.kamber@canoeicf.com
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