Germany wins Olympic gold in men's 1,000m

Australian Associated Press – Thu, Aug 9, 2012 6:58 PM AEST

Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela of Germany won the gold medal Thursday in the men's 1,000-metre C-2 at the Olympic canoe sprint regatta.

The Germans came through strong in the final 250 metres to win in 3 minutes, 33.804 seconds, a half-length ahead of defending champions Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich of Belarus. Alexey Korovashkov and Ilya Pervukhin of Russia took the bronze.

Kretschmer and Kuschela won a World Cup event in Poznan, Poland, in May and were the quickest qualifiers for the final by two seconds.

It was Germany's second gold and fifth medal of the regatta.

Overall Medal Count

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States 46 29 29 104
2 China 38 27 23 88
3 Great Britain 29 17 19 65
4 Russia 24 26 32 82
5 South Korea 13 8 7 28
6 Germany 11 19 14 44
7 France 11 11 12 34
10 Australia 7 16 12 35
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