2000 World Rafting Championship 1 March 2000
South Africa's kayaker, Steve Fisher, pulled off a fantastic win in the third event of the Camel Whitewater Challenge today -- the kayak downriver race.
Fisher confidently crossed the finishing line a few metres ahead of his closest competitor in the race, US representative, Corey Neilsen. Russia's Alexandre Chigidzin and Italy's Hager Waldner finished in third and fourth position. Slovenia's Alexei Botchyo came in fifth.
BORMIO, Italy, March 14 - Kristian Ghedina was faster than Hermann Maier in a training run on Tuesday but the Italian will have to give even more to snatch the downhill World Cup title from the Austrian in Wednesday's final race.
2000 World Rafting Championship 1 March 2000
There was nothing on earth that could stop the determined Russian team from winning today Raft Downriver race and thereby clinching the title of world rafting champion in the fourth and final event of the Camel Whitewater Challenge.