{"id":410403,"date":"2025-09-09T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410403\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:22:10","slug":"canoeing-kimberley-woods-wins-double-gold-for-great-britain-at-canoe-slalom-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410403\/","title":{"rendered":"CANOEING &#8211; Kimberley Woods wins double gold for Great Britain at Canoe Slalom World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tKIMBERLEY Woods won double gold for Great Britain at the International Canoe Federation Canoe Slalom World Cup in Augsburg, Germany.<br \/>\nWoods won gold in the women\u2019s canoe final and also the kayak final to also win the overall title in both events.<\/p>\n<p>The Rugby canoeist finished on top of the podium in both events to make the perfect preparation for the upcoming Canoe Slalom World Championships in Perth, Australia later this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Woods said: \u201cI\u2019m a bit speechless, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just found a bit of a groove, so to be able to do that after three runs, I\u2019m pretty pleased. I think I improved a lot from run to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully I\u2019ve not peaked too early before the World Championships but I\u2019ve got a lot of confidence now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty buzzed, I think the highest I\u2019ve ever come in the overall kayak was eighth and I was happy with that considering the field at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Woods finished ahead of Team GB teammate Lois Leaver and America\u2019s Evy Leibfarth in the overall kayak standings.<\/p>\n<p>And the Rugby paddler beat Slovakia\u2019s Zuzana Pankova and Italy\u2019s Marta Bertoncelli to the women\u2019s canoe title.<\/p>\n<p>She jumped from sixth in the standings to finish first overall and claim another gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Are you on Facebook?<\/strong>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Like or follow our Facebook page &#8211; &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Rugby.Observer\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tfacebook.com\/Rugby.Observer\t\t\t<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tto get daily news updates straight to your news feed.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; KIMBERLEY Woods won double gold for Great Britain at the International Canoe Federation Canoe Slalom World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410404,"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-410403","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174319396160225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410403","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=410403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}