Six gold medals were decided in canoeing, with Attila Vajda of Hungary winning the men's 1, 000 meter singles in 3:50.46, taking a step up on the podium after his bronze four years ago in Athens.

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He did not make the best of starts but finished strongly to win by a couple of metres as the next four produced a blanket finish for the podium places.

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Franz Welser-Moest collapsed into his podium at the end of the first act of the four-and-a-half-hour long Parsifal.

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We're delighted to have the boat not just on the podium for a single race for the first time in four campaigns, but overall, which is what we set out to achieve and we've achieved it.

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Schumacher, who has started 287 grands prix since making his debut in 1991, has failed to finish on the podium since returning to the grid and only registered one top-four finish last year, at June's rain-affected Canadian Grand Prix.

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He suffered from the intervention of the safety car in both races, and scored only four points in two races in which he should have been on the podium.

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William just pipped brother Michael by four hundredths of a second in the 250 event, with Barry Davidson completing the podium.

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