Kayaking: Carrington dominates final

Lisa Carrington produced a dominant performance at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup regatta in Czech Republic.

The Olympic Gold medallist from Whakatane surprised the field in the WK1 (women's kayaking) 500m final on Saturday night, winning the race convincingly in 1min 48.5sec.

Carrington powered her way to the front of the race and never looked close to being challenged, finishing 2.1 seconds ahead of second-placed Yvonne Shurring of Austria.

Her time was only 1.5 seconds outside the world record for the 500m event, an amazing effort considering this is internationally a new event for Carrington.

However, the field was lighter than in other World Cup regattas although she clearly beat the London Olympic sixth, seventh and ninth place-getters in the race.

Carrington was also set to race in the final of her favoured K1 200m event late last night after dominating earlier in the weekend heats and semi-finals.

Carrington is competing at the event with the rest of the New Zealand kayaking team, in Europe to compete in three World Cup regattas.

In other results, the women's K2 pairing of Teneale Hatton and Rachael Dodwell struggled after a strong win in the semifinals. The pair finished ninth in the A final but have set themselves a new personal best time along the way.

Meanwhile, Ben Fouhy continued to show a good trend in his race results moving towards the A final of the K1 1000m.

In the final, Fouhy used his strengths and will be well pleased with his progress, finishing seventh.