Adam van Koeverden of Oakville, Ont., won gold in the K-1 500 while Richard Dober Jr., of Trois-Rivieres, Que., made two podium appearances on a seven-medal day for Canadians at a World Cup paddling competition in Hungary.

Van Koeverden clocked one minute 41.722 seconds for his second gold of the weekend and fifth World Cup medal this season.

Anders Gustafsson of Sweden was second in 1:42.460 and Tamas Szalai of Hungary third in 1:42.724. Angus Mortimer of Ottawa was fifth.

Dober Jr., picked up a silver in K-1 200 and 20 minutes later added a bronze with Andrew Willows of Gananoque, Ont., in the K-2 200. Because the races were so close together, Dober Jr., was too busy to be at his first career World Cup K-1 medal ceremony held between the two races.

"Despite missing the medal ceremony I can't complain about the day," said Dober Jr. "In the 200 it's always important to have a good start because there is not much time to catch up. In the K-1 my start was very good, with a good kick in the middle and I kept it together. It was pretty much the same in our K-2, except for a little trouble on the start but it's something we are not worried about."

With the 200-metre races now official Olympic events, Dober Jr., noticed a difference in intensity.

"There's a lot of new crews and obviously this has become a very important event," he said. "The stakes are higher, the races were a lot tighter and everyone was going for it."

In the C-2 200, Gabriel Beauchesne-Sevigny of Trois-Rivieres and Andrew Russell of Dartmouth, N.S., took silver, finishing only 0.04 second behind Belarussian brothers Andrei and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich.

"We just got better through every round so this was a great way to finish," said Beauchesne-Sevigny. "Being in the outside lane actually helped us. We were next to the crowd and we really fed off their energy, it was like a third paddler in the boat."

Mark Oldershaw of Burlington, Ont., also ended the weekend with three podium appearances after snaring silver in Sunday's C-1 500. Thomas Hall of Pointe-Claire, Que., was eighth. Richard Dalton of Halifax was ninth in the C-1 200.

Canada also grabbed two more medals in women's competition with Laurence Vincent-Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres and Nicole Haywood of Nanaimo, B.C., placed 1-2 in the C-1 200.

"I went in with a lot of confidence after winning my semifinal by two seconds," said Vincent-Lapointe. "My acceleration was much better at the start and that was a big difference for me. It helped the middle portion of my race be much faster."

In B finals: Rhys Hill of Ottawa and Brady Reardon of Burlington, Ont., won the K-2 500 for 10th overall while for the women Kristin Gauthier of Ottawa and Emilie Fournel of Montreal were second in the K-2 500; Kia Byers of Regina second in the K-1 200 while Mylanie Barre of Lac-Beauport, Que., and Genevieve Orton of Lake Echo, N.S., and Marie-Pier Langlois of Quebec City and Hannah Vaughan of Dartmouth were fifth and sixth respectively in the K-2 200.

The next World Cup event is June 4-6 in Duisburg, Germany.

Source: cbc.ca