German pair leads to the Men’s C2 final
Updated: 2008-08-14 15:55:28
(BEIJING, August 14) — The semifinal run of the Canoe/Kayak Slalom Men’s Canoe Double concluded on Thursday, August 14, with six of 10 pairs advancing to the final.
World No. 1 Pavol Hochschorner and his twin brother Peter were surprisingly overrun by World No. 52 Felix Michel and Sebastian Piersig of Germany, who finished 94.38 seconds without a single penalty. The Hochschorner brother did paddle faster than the German pair, but incurred a two-second penalty after touching a gate. They placed second trailing just 0.50 seconds behind the Germans.
World No. 14 Marcin Pochwala and Paweł Sarna of Poland, and World No. 15 Samma Masatoshi and Nagao Hiroyuki of Japan, didn’t make it to the final by placing eighth and ninth respectively.
World No. 44 Ondřej Štěpánek and Jaroslav Volf of the Czech Republic ranked third with a total time of 95.33 seconds without any penalty, followed by World No. 10 Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitri Larionov of Russia who clocked 98.57 seconds. Cedric Forgit and Martin Braud of France were fifth with a time of 102.76 seconds after four penalty seconds were added, and Italy’s Andrea Benetti and Erik Masoero were the last qualifiers with a sixth-place finish of 103.64 including two penalty seconds.
The final will start at 4:47 p.m. (UTC/GMT 
on Thursday.
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