Tim Brabants paddled his kayak into the final of the men’s 1,000m race today with a time of 3min 37.205sec.
Brabants, 23, struggled over the third 250m stretch but covered the final leg in 55.045sec - the fastest time in the semi-final - to take second place behind Norway’s Knut Holmann 3min 36.425sec.
Gary Mawer of Ireland was ninth with a time of 3min 50.363sec in the same race and missed the final.
In the two-man kayak, Britons Paul Darby-Dowman and Ross Sabberton did not progress to their final after only managing a fifth place time of 3min 19.826sec in their 2,000m semi-final.
British brothers Andrew and Steve Train, in the two-man canoe, likewise failed to reach the men’s 1,000m final as they finished fourth in a time of 3min 45.624sec.
Defending Olympic champion Martin Doktor of the Czech Republic, meanwhile, has been reinstated in the C1 500m final.
Doktor had been disqualified following a protest by German rival Andreas Dittmer that he had infringed the five-metre rule, but a jury has overturned the Competition Committee’s decision to toss him out of the final after deciding there was no concrete evidence to suggest he had committed an infraction.
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