Serbians win 5 medals at Canoe World Championships

Serbians win 5 medals at Canoe World Championships

MOSCOW -- Serbia won three medals on the last day of the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (WC) in Moscow, and a total of five during the competition.

The country's most successful athletes were Nebojša Grujić and Marko Novaković, who won the men’s K-2 200m event.

Grujić and Novaković finished the final race in a time of 30.500, ahead of Germany’s Tom Liebscher and Ronald Rauhe (30.606) and France’s Maxime Beaumont and Sebastien Jouve (30.884).

Nikolina and Olivera Moldovan won the silver medal in the women’s K-2 500m, finishing in 1:40.480.

Hungaria’s Gabriella Szabo and Tamara Csipes won the event finishing in 1:39.935 and Karolina Naja and Beata Mikolajczyk of Poland finished third in 1:41.337.

This was the best result in the Moldovan sisters' career and their second medal this season, the first being a bronze in the same event at the 2014 Canoe Sprint European Championships in Brandenburg.

Nikolina Moldovan also had a good race in the K-1 200m event, where she finished third in the time of 39.416, following winner Lisa Carrington of New Zealand (37.898) and Marta Walczykiewicz of Poland (38.814).

Nikolina and Olivera Moldovan finished fourth in the K-2 200m event, while Serbia's men’s kayak four of Boltic, Torubarov, Holpert, Terzić, who finished fourth in a K-4 1000m final, while Marko Dragosavljević finished sixth in the men’s K-1 200m event in 34.466.

Serbia won a total of five medals in the championships. The other medals were two bronzes, won by Marko Tomićević and Vladimir Torubarov in the men’s K-2 1000m event and Alma Benedek-Ružičić in the women’s K-1 1000m.