Kayak Finals at 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup, Prague
An exciting afternoon here in Prague produced surprises left right, and centre. A mother/son podium appearance, as well as a Brit and a Swiss and an unfortunate episode of technical equipment failure. Women's K1 Semi-Final
Slovakia's Jana Dukatova finished over 3 seconds clear of Oblinger-Peters. Third fastest time went to Germany's Claudia Baer. Also to look out for in the final is World Champion, Jasmin Schornberg.
Clearly more relaxed than in the heats, her strong performance gave her the fifth fastest time. Big surprise: Austria's Corinna Kuhnle performed convincingly in the heats. However, being the last to run in this morning's semi-final perhaps laid the pressure on. Corinna hit the gate once, but it was a slow time that knocked her out of this afternoon's final.
Final All change for the finals.
1st place Jasmin Schornberg (GER) 109.05 2nd place Fiona Pennie (GBR) 109.16 3rd place Stepanka Hilgertova (CZE) 109.79
Big Surprise: Jana Dukatova's drama as the spray skirt came away from the boat, filling her boat up with water and her of kilter. The race was over for her as soon as it started.
Quotes: Jasmin Schornberg “I'm very satisfied with my run, and I'm very happy to be the first after the World Championships last year. So, I think everybody will know now that I can paddle and for myself it's very good.” Fiona Pennie, “I'm really pleased, obviosuly it would be nice to be .11 quicker then I would have won.
It was surprising watching the other girls come down afterwards, we thought it was going to be really close and lots of improvements could be made in the second runs. There were some mistakes made... there was that touch, a minor blip but I was pleased all in all.”
