Canoeing - Portugal wins Silver medal K2 1000

Fernando Silva and Emanuel Pimenta won on Wednesday the silver medal in the K2 1000 meters, the first of Portugal in the Jogois Londres'2012.

The Portuguese duo finished a very short distance of the winner, Hungary (Dombi and Roland Rudolf Kokeny), beating the mighty Germany (Martin Hollstein and Andreas Ihle), which won the bronze medal.

Times of the top three boats:

1. Dombi Rudolf / Rudolf Kokeny (Hungary), 3:09.646 
2. Fernando Pimenta / Emanuel Silva (Portugal), 3:09.699 
3. Martin Hollstein / Andreas Ihle (Germany), 3:10.117

First medal for PORTUGAL