Ireland achieve 5th and 7th place at Canoeing World Cup

Ireland had a fifth and a seventh place in A Finals at the Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg this morning.

Newly-qualified Olympian Andrzej Jezierski did not have a great start in the C1 200 metre race won by Spain’s Alfonso Benavides of Spain.

Jezierski finished seventh. Barry Watkins battled well in the K1 500 metres and finished fifth in a race won convincingly by Anders Gustafsson of Sweden.