Finishing ahead of the New Zealand pair at the weekend were the Olympic silver-medal-winning Polish crew and a young, powerful German crew.
Hoskin said it was exciting to be racing crews of such a high calibre.
“It gave me a confidence boost that we can stick to our race plan even when the pressure comes on,” she said.
This result comes off the back of a successful national regatta for Hoskin.
She contracted Covid-19 six weeks before the nationals and missed a vital block of training.
Hoskin followed medical advice for a slow but progressive return to training and was able to compete in the K1 200m and 500m, the K2 200m and the K4 200m. At the end of it she had four national titles and a silver medal.
Her father Craig is also in Europe as he was selected as an international technical official for the Czech and Polish regattas.
The women's K4, led by Tokyo Olympians Carrington and Hoskin, made the A final and placed sixth — an excellent result considering it was the first senior international regatta for Olivia Brett and Tara Vaughan.
Vaughan is only 18 and had never even competed as a junior internationally.
On the men's side, the regatta got off to an exciting start with two NZ men's K4 500m crews. Both teams had strong performances in the heats and then had to battle each other in the semis where Ashton Reiser, Ben McCallum, James Munro and Gisborne's Zach Ferkins reached the B Final. The other K4 had equipment issues in their semifinal.
In the C Final of the K1 1000m, Gisborne paddler Quaid Thompson finished fourth in a time of 3 minutes 36.76 seconds, 2.76s behind the Ukrainian winner.
Another New Zealand paddler, Ben McCallum, carved eight seconds off his personal best in his heat, then placed second in the 1000m C Final, in 3:34.50, in his first senior international event.
