Hope Gordon and Charlotte Henshaw won two medals apiece as Great Britain finished third in the medal table at the Canoe Sprint World Championships.<\/b><\/p>\n
Henshaw has won the women’s VL3 gold at four of the past five editions, with Hope winning it in 2023.<\/p>\n
And this time 30-year-old Scot Gordon claimed her second world title, with 38-year-old Henshaw making it a British one-two.<\/p>\n
Three-time Paralympic champion Henshaw did win her 11th world gold though, continuing her dominance of the KL2 event with a seventh straight title.<\/p>\n
Gordon also won a bronze medal at the tournament in Milan finishing third as her Welsh team-mate and Paralympic champion Laura Sugar triumphed in the KL3 event.<\/p>\n
GB claimed a total of four golds in Italy, along with one silver and four bronze.<\/p>\n
The other gold was won by David Phillipson in the men’s KL2 event, claiming his first international event after taking world and Olympic silver in 2024.<\/p>\n
Edward Clifton won bronze in the men’s L2 final, as did Emily Lewis (women K1) and Jeanette Chippington (women’s VL2) in their respective events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hope Gordon and Charlotte Henshaw won two medals apiece as Great Britain finished third in the medal table…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-370334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}