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GB top Para-canoe medal table at Euro Championships
Laura Sugar added a European title to her Olympic and World Championship crowns [Getty Images] Great Britain's Para-canoe team added a further three medals on the final day of the European Championships to finish top of the medal table. The team finished with nine medals in all - four golds, four silvers and one bronze - seven medals clear of any other country. Advertisement Laura Sugar raced to victory in the KL3 200m event, finishing 1.747 seconds ahead of France's Nelia Barbosa. The win means Sugar has now added a European title to her Olympic and World Championship crowns. Edward Clifton added silver by finishing behind Portugal's Norberto Mourao in the men's VL2 200m event, while Stuart Wood finished runner-up in the VL3 200m. Charlotte Henshaw won two of Great Britain's six medals on Saturday, winning the KL2 and claiming silver in the VL3. Henshaw was beaten in the VL3 women's final by compatriot Hope Gordon, who won by half a length. Olympic silver medallist David Phillipson, 36, held off Italy's Christian Volpi to win the KL2 men's final in a time of 41.516 seconds. Jonny Young claimed silver in the men's KL3 final, while Taylor Gough earned a bronze in the VL1 final on his international debut.
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8 hours ago
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GB top Para-canoe medal table at Euro Championships
Great Britain's Para-canoe team added a further three medals on the final day of the European Championships to finish top of the medal team finished with nine medals in all - four golds, four silvers and one bronze - seven medals clear of any other country. Laura Sugar raced to victory in the KL3 200m event, finishing 1.747 seconds ahead of France's Nelia Barbosa. The win means Sugar has now added a European title to her Olympic and World Championship crowns. Edward Clifton added silver by finishing behind Portugal's Norberto Mourao in the men's VL2 200m event, while Stuart Wood finished runner-up in the VL3 200m. Charlotte Henshaw won two of Great Britain's six medals on Saturday, winning the KL2 and claiming silver in the VL3. Henshaw was beaten in the VL3 women's final by compatriot Hope Gordon, who won by half a length. Olympic silver medallist David Phillipson, 36, held off Italy's Christian Volpi to win the KL2 men's final in a time of 41.516 seconds. Jonny Young claimed silver in the men's KL3 final, while Taylor Gough earned a bronze in the VL1 final on his international debut.
BBC News
20-05-2025
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Paralympians to help out with Nottingham canal clean-up
Two Paralympic gold medallists are set to take to the waters to help clean up rubbish from Nottingham Big Paddle Cleanup is a national annual campaign run by governing body Paddle UK - previously known as British Canoeing - which encourages people to do their bit to keep waterways paracanoe athletes Charlotte Henshaw and Emma Wiggs will be getting involved on Nottingham Canal on 3 will join staff members from Paddle UK - based at the National Water Sports Centre at Holme Pierrepont in Nottinghamshire - for the clean-up. Chantelle Grundy, the body's access and environment lead and organiser of the Big Paddle Cleanup, said it was "fantastic" to see the initiative grow as it approaches its fourth year. "It's quite sad when we're out paddling to see the amount of junk and plastic pollution that is often tucked away in our canals and rivers," she added."We're absolutely delighted that our Paralympic champions will be joining us on the water to help us protect the places that we all love to paddle."As paddlers it's really important to look after our blue spaces as we see the full impacts of pollution on nature. "We want to look after them so we can enjoy them, and so we can enjoy them too."In 2024, Paddle UK said 3,699 volunteers collected 1,888 sacks of rubbish and other junk from rivers and canals across the those sacks were 7,809 plastic bottles, 2,374 glass bottles, 4,735 cans and 10,613 plastic food wrappers, plus some more "unusual" of volunteers were involved in different clean-up events in Nottinghamshire last year, including in Beeston, Stapleford and Burton Joyce.
