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Brabants: Bronze to go with gold
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Tim Brabants added a bronze medal to the gold he clinched earlier in the week as he came home third in a thrilling men's K1 500m final on Saturday.
The Englishman proved a class apart in the K1 1000m final, but the race over half that distance proved a much tighter affair and was ultimately won by Australian Ken Wallace with Canadian Adam van Koeverden narrowly edging out Brabants to pinch silver.
Brabants, in lane one, made a decent start although it was van Koeverden, in five, who made the early running, streaking out into what looked a commanding lead.
However, as the race entered the final 100 metres it was Wallace out in lane eight who came with a searing late charge to take victory on the line with Brabants just failing to get past van Koeverden.
