Burgess wins first World Cup silver in six years

After a “pretty special” run in the heats, Great Britain’s Adam Burgess won the C1 World Cup for the first time since 2019.

Olympic champion Nicolas Gestin, 32, defeated Slovenia’s Luka Bozic to finish second.

In the heats in north-east Spain, Burgess ran a stunning run to take the lead.

The Stoke-born paddler, who was last in the finals, ran an emphatic run to start the season without penalty.

After agonizingly slipping by 0.16 seconds in Tokyo in 2020, Burgess won Olympic silver in the individual canoe at the Paris Games.

“I’m always there or thereabouts, and we’ve done a lot of work to try to get those runs in the final, and I’m guessing that the final was my worst run today,” Burgess said.