25-year-old Canadian sprint canoeist Katie Vincent has won world championship gold in the women’s C1 200 metres.
The sprint canoeist who hails from Misissauga, Ont., outpaced Spain’s Antia Jacome and Poland’s Dorota Borowska in Copenhagen, Denmark for the Canadian’s first career world championship medal.
It would be recalled that Vincent teamed with Laurence Vincent-Lapointe to earn an Olympic bronze medal in the C2 last month in Tokyo.
In the latest feat, Vincent edged Jacome by two and a half tenths in final after posting the quickest semifinal time by almost a second.
Speaking with canoeicf.com, Vincent said “All this hard work for the past few years to get to this point, and now I’m looking forward to the future”
“I really feel like this is the beginning. There is a long road to go for me. I’m really looking forward to worlds next year at home, to be the reigning world champion added into a home world championships will be super exciting.”
The gold medalists also raced the women’s 500-metre final at the event and placed sixth.
She said “I have ups and downs since Tokyo. There were a lot of emotions and things to process, and there still is. It kept me going and I reconnected with my love for this sport”.
The 2022 ICF canoe sprint world championship will be held in Dartmouth, N.S.
