Britain Takes Silver in Ki Kayaking

Campbell Walsh today won silver for Great Britain with a brilliant display of kayaking in the K1 slalom final, after his initial third-place result was upgraded to second following yet another late scores revision by Olympic officials.

Fabien Lefevre of France, who was initially scored above Campbell in silver position, was then docked two seconds for a penalty, lifting the Scottish kayaker into second place.

The Scottish Olympic debutant followed his superb semi-final run with a near-faultless assault on the man-made course in the final.

His silver was Britain's second medal in the canoeing events at these games, following Helen Reeves who claimed bronze in the women's K1 on Wednesday.

Despite leading going into the final, Walsh was unable to claim the gold. The 26-year-old posted the fastest time in his semi-final, finishing 0.25 seconds ahead of France's Benoit Peschier and 0.78 seconds ahead of third-placed Dutchman Sam Oud.

Starting last in the final, Walsh knew exactly what he had to do to take the gold and although he ran into some trouble, he was still able to post the second quickest overall time of 190.17 seconds.

France's Benoit Peschier took gold with 187.96 seconds while Lefevre had to settle for bronze with his revised time of 190.99.

Earlier in the day, British C2 gold favourites Stuart Bowman and Nick Smith had failed to reach the final of their event.