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The Hungarians finished with four podium places at the canoe-kayak Super Cup in Hangzhou, China last weekend.
As reported by Hungary Today, on Friday’s opening day, Hungarian competitors started with two medals. In the K1 short-course (3.4 km) marathon, Vanda Kiszli finished second behind world champion Melina Andersson of Sweden. Four-time world champion and two-time Olympic sprint medalist Balázs Adolf won another Hungarian medal in the canoe event, finishing third.
After the opening day on Friday, Hungarian competitors also won two medals on Saturday.
After Friday’s bronze medal, Balázs Adolf was again outstanding, taking home the first Hungarian gold medal in the long-course marathon event.
In this event, Simon Sebestyén finished 10th, Máté Zsidai 11th, while in the women’s race, Sára Lili Matkovics finished sixth and Dóra Hegedűs 11th.
Vanda Kiszli, short-course marathon silver medalist, finished second among kayakers,
while Zsófia Czéllai-Vörös finished eighth and Panna Csépe ninth.
Third placed Vanda Kiszli in the final of the women’s k’ 5000m race at the World Cup in Szeged (Hungary) on May 12, 2024. Photo: MTI/Szigetváry Zsolt
On Saturday, the sprint events also began, with two-time Olympic silver medalist Ádám Varga, who finished fifth in the 500m.
In Sunday’s sprint events, Hungary’s Balla Virág and Canadian canoeist Sophia Jensen and the mixed kayak pair of Anna Lucz, Anna Szántói, and Tamás Szántói-Szabó made it to the final. The former finished fourth and the latter fifth in the 500m. In addition to the sprint events, the Hungarians also competed in the marathon on the last day. In the men’s kayak traditional distance race (21 km), Adrián Boros finished eighth and Olivér Varga ninth in a field of 18, thus the Hungarians did not win any medals on the last day of the competition.
The Hungarian team finished with one gold, two silver, and one bronze.
This was the first Super Cup in which representatives of several disciplines – sprint, marathon, slalom, and polo – competed at the same time. A total of 500 athletes took part in the three-day event.
Via Nemzeti Sport, Featured image: MTI/Kovács Tamás