THE South African sprint team will return from Pitesti, Romania with three A Finals to show for their efforts at the recent ICF Junior and U23 Canoe Sprint World Championships that concluded over the weekend.

Louis Hattingh was the first South African into an A Final where he finished eighth in the 1000m K1 race while Jarryd Gibson ended ninth in the 500m A Final and the impressive Donna Hutton was sixth in the 500m K1 A Final.

There were commendable performances from all of the team with a handful taking part in their first world championships.

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Hutton, who has flown the South African flag in an A Final before, showed that she is a star in the making with her solid sixth place finish. It was a tough build up for her but she overcame a significant hurdle to produce a strong result.

“After having really struggled with flu in the weeks leading up to the event I am really happy to have still pulled of my best World Championship result finishing off sixth in the K1 U23 500m. I am really proud of my local training team HPTraining for pulling off all three of Team SA’s A Finals.

“What an honour to be part of such a talented team of athletes. The three of us are really excited for the weeks to come as we travel to Hungary to compete in the senior field and fight it out for Tokyo 2020 Olympic qualifications,” Hutton said.

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