Adam Burgess ends wait with Olympic silver for Team GB in canoe slalom

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Adam Burgess secured his first Olympic medal with canoe slalom singles silver at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in Paris.

The Stoke-on-Trent paddler, who was the fourth-fastest finisher from the semi‑finals, put in a superb run save for a small error on upstream gate 17, but recovered at the bottom of the course, ­crossing the ­finish in 96.84sec to set the ­fastest run of the final with three men left to challenge.

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