Canoe Kayak continues to show strong performances

Third day of racing produced some strong results for Team BC with the highlight being a fourth place finish in the K2 1000m for Alex Brent and Matthew and 4th place in Men’s C1 200m for Alexandre Demishkevich (Kamloops).  Other results include:

Women’s C2 200m 6th – Zaffia Laplante and Sam Loutet
Women’s C2 500m 6th – Sam Loutet and Anna Zhang
Men’s C4 200m 5th –  Ydris Hunter, Quinn Phare, Noah Said, Omar Said
Men’s C4 100m 5th – Ydris Hunter, Quinn Phare, Noah Said, Omar Said
Women’s K1 200m 7th – Jia Kim
Women’s K4 200m 6th – Megahn Cheung, Katrina Loulet, Cassidy MacPherson, Elisa Robson-Brown
Women’s K4 500m 6th – Megahn Cheung, Jia Kim, Katrina Loutet, Elisa Robson-Brown

Quotes:

Alex Brent (Dewdney) & Matt Koehler (Maple Ridge), Kayak, Men’s K2 1000m
On winning fourth place: 

KOEHLER, Matthew 
“We’re happy that we went for it.   We are happy with how we raced, we did want we wanted to do. It was our strategy to go out as hard as we could, see where we were then go for it at the end if we had anything left.  Turns out we didn’t have anything left at the end.  But this was a good performance in preparation for nationals.”

BRENT, Alex
“We went for it.  We were going for the win.  We didn’t want to race for third, we wanted to race for gold, so we decided on a risky strategy.   Unfortunately we didn’t have anything left in that last 150m.  You win some, you lose some.”