Rio de Janeiro: Lisa Carrington has proved once again she’s the world’s fastest kayaker.
The New Zealander won her second straight gold in the women’s 200-metre flatwater race, a furious sprint where paddlers go full throttle for about 40 seconds.
Carrington is also a four-time world champion in the event.
She won the race in 39.864 seconds, ahead of silver medallist Marta Walczykiewicz of Poland and Inna Osipenko-Rodomska of Azerbaijan, who got bronze.
Earlier, Hungarian kayakers Gabriella Szabo and Danuta Kozak won the gold medal in the women’s 500-metre double, edging Germany’s Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze by just 5 hundredths of a second. Poland took third place.
