 London: German pair Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze took Olympic gold in the women`s kayak double here Thursday, depriving their Hungarian rivals of a third-consecutive title.
Weber and Dietze handed their country its second successive gold on water by winning in 1:42.213 seconds.
Hungarian defending champions Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Douchev-Janics couldn`t cope with the pace and had to settle for silver a second behind.
Polish team Karolina Naja and Beata Mikolajczyk took the bronze in 1:44.00, fending off a late challenge from China.
Germany`s Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela won the men`s canoe double 1000 metres earlier in the day.
IANS
First Published: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 17:30
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