Grujic, Novakovic champions, silver for Moldovan sisters

MOSCOW - Serbia won three medals on the last day of the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (WC) in Moscow, its most successful athletes being Nebojsa Grujic and Marko Novakovic, who won the men’s K-2 200m event.

Grujic and Novakovic finished the final race in a time of 30.500, ahead of Germany’s Tom Liebscher and Ronald Rauhe (30.606) and France’s Maxime Beaumont and Sebastien Jouve (30.884).

Nikolina and Olivera Moldovan won the silver medal in the women’s K-2 500m, finishing in 1:40.480.

Hungaria’s Gabriella Szabo and Tamara Csipes won the event finishing in 1:39.935 and Karolina Naja and Beata Mikolajczyk of Poland finished third in 1:41.337.

This was the best result in the Moldovan sisters' career and their second medal this season, the first being a bronze in the same event at the 2014 Canoe Sprint European Championships in Brandenburg.

Nikolina Moldovan also had a good race in the K-1 200m event, where she finished third in the time of 39.416, following winner Lisa Carrington of New Zealand (37.898) and Marta Walczykiewicz of Poland (38.814).

Nikolina and Olivera Moldovan finished fourth in the K-2 200m event, and medal slipped out of the paddles of Serbia's men’s kayak four of Boltic, Torubarov, Holpert, Terzic, who finished fourth in a K-4 1000m final, while Marko Dragosavljevic finished sixth in the men’s K-1 200m event in 34.466.

Serbia ended up with a total of five medals in the championships. The other medals were two bronzes, won by Marko Tomicevic and Vladimir Torubarov in the men’s K-2 1000m event and Alma Benedek-Ruzicic in the women’s K-1 1000m.

Photo AP/Pavel Golovkin