High Performance Canoe Slalom Results 2006 ICF World Championships
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| The Slalom Team events provided two top ten finishes for the men's and women's teams in the morning session on Day 4 in Prague.
The Men's C1 team of Robin Bell, Christian Fabris and Kynan Maley remained consistent over their 2 runs finishing 10th after their first run and eventually placing 9th overall with a combined time of 273.72 40.48 seconds behind the German team. The K1 Women's team of Kate Lawrence, Jacqui Lawrence & Victoria Milne improved on their first run which left them in 8th, to move up to a respectable 5th placing 25.46 seconds off the winning French team. Their overall combined time was 290.33 seconds. C2 pair Mark Bellofiore and Lachie Milne narrowly missed a finals berth finishing just 2 seconds out of the top 10. Their time of 120.09 left them in 13th place. In terms of nation ranking Australia was sixth overall which is a promising performance in view of the one boat per nation Olympic qualification policy introduced for Beijing 2008. Anthony Brown finished the best of the Aussies in the K1 Semi-Final with a clean run finishing in 28th place. His time of 109.42 was 10.75 seconds off lead pace. Sam Lyons improved on his previous run which saw him narrowly make the Semi-Final. He finished in 33rd position with a time of 111.57. Warwick Draper started strongly and was in the running at the mid way split. However, he was unable to sustain the pace and uncharacteristically went back for a gate before completing the course in 131.20 seconds. That error plus six seconds of penalties put him out of final contention and he finished in 37th place. Robin Bell finished the best of the Australians on the final day of competition in Prague. Bell went into the final in 4th position and began strongly. However, despite a clean run he was unable to match the in form Frenchman Tony Estanguet and placed 6th with a total time of 214.03. Estanguet was took the gold medal in 207.69, 1.31 seconds ahead Michal Martikan of Slovakia who had a incurred a 2 second penalty, whilst local Czech paddler Stanslav Jezek gave the home crowd something to cheer about with a bronze medal performance. Kynan Maley finished 25th in the C1 Semi-Final in 114.11 seconds with World Championship first timer Christian Fabris finishing in 31st with a time of 119.45. In the womens K1 competition, Kate Lawrence was the best placed Australian in 13th place with a score of in 119.43. Victoria Milne and Jacqui Lawrence finished 25th and 26th respectively. | |||
