PARIS :New Zealand paddler Lisa Carrington's gold rush continued at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium on Friday when she secured a seventh Olympic gold medal and her second of the Paris Games, winning the women's 500m kayak double race with Alicia Hoskin.
Hungarians Tamara Csipes and Alida Dora Gazso took second place and after a lengthy review their second boat, crewed by Noemie Pupp and Sara Fojt, was awarded a bronze medal in a tie for third place with Germans Paulina Paszek and Jule Marie Hake.
The Chinese pair of Xu Shixiao and Sun Mengya powered to victory in the women's canoe double 500m final, setting an Olympic record of 1:52.81 and breaking the mark of 1:53.73 that they had set earlier in the day.
Ukraine's Liudmyla Luzan and Anastasiia Rybachok came in second to take silver, with Canada's Sloan Mackenzie and Katie Vincent finishing third.