Gibson narrowly misses bronze

Kinross canoeist Eilidh Gibson narrowly failed to add an individual medal to her team gold from Tuesday when she finished fourth in yesterday’s C1 final at the World Slalom Championships in Pau, France.

The Scot produced a smooth semi-final run, going fifth-quickest, and went for broke in the final, staying on the pace all the way before clipping gate 17 out of 23. A two-second penalty was added to her time of 114.62sec and put her in bronze medal position with four paddlers left.

Australian Rosalyn Lawrence and Briton Kim Woods both failed to beat Gibson’s time, but Czech Tereza Fiserova went faster.