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World Championships Sprint Final
After two years of Swedish domination by Emil Wingstedt, a thrilling Mens race saw a new champion in Thierry Gueorgiou of France. He produced a superb eyeballs out sprint down the run in to take the win from Mattias Merz of Switzerland by 9 hundreths of a second, and then…
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a large gap of 18 seconds to Martin Johansson of Sweden. Gueorgiou thus became the only man to finish the championship with two gold medals, but his first World Championship Sprint Title. Pictured: Thierry Gueorgiou faces the press Credit: Digisport All three British men packed into the top 20. It was the youngster Graham Gristwood who produced the best result of the trio in an impressive 12th position, 46 seconds behind Gueorgiou. Graham was very pleased with his performance feeling it was a better technical run than his run last year for 9th position. He had been feeling unwell since…
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