HUNGARY: It was a good start to the Canoe/Kayak Canada competition season for one Windsor Junction athlete.
Sloan MacKenzie, a Cheema athlete, and teammate Katie Vincent earned bronze medal as they kicked off the Sprint Canoe season sending a message.
The two won the bronze in the C-2, 500-metre race on May 13 at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary.
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MacKenzie and Vincent cleared the distance in 2 minutes and 2.45 seconds, just 1.11 seconds behind winners Shixiao Xu and Mengya Sun of China.
Antia Jacome and Maria Corbera (2:02.23) of Spain took home silver.
It was the second medal of the championship for Vincent, who won silver in C-1 200-metres on May 12.
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Other Cheema athletes also competed at the championship in Hungary.
Riley Melanson of Fall River finished in sixth place in the K4-500 Metre B Final in 1:40.22.
In K2-500 metre, Melanson was sixth as well in the B Final in a time of 1:49.38.
Fall River’s Michelle Russell wound up sixth in the A final of the K1-200 metre in 43.22.
In K1-500 metre, she was seventh in the A Final in a time of 1:58.47.
Russell also came home in 13th place in K1-5000 metre in a time of 26:25.69.
Meanwhile, Craig Spence of Waverley was sixth in the C2-500 metre B final in a time of 1:45.19.
