In Szeged, Fisher won silver in the women’s K1 500m and helped New Zealand’s paddlers at a major sprint event before heading to Germany.

Fisher came second in the women’s K1 500m A final in 1min 46.54sec, narrowly behind Australian Natalia Drobot, who won in 1min 46.43sec in Szeged at the weekend.. Fisher also hopped in the boat alongside Otago paddler Lucy Matehaere, Olivia Brett and Greer Morley, as a late replacement for Lisa Carrington.. Carrington, New Zealand’s most decorated Olympian, who recently announced she is pregnant, was scratched after medical advice.. Fisher, Matehaere, Brett and Morley finished 12th

overall in the women’s K4 500m after finishing third in the B final in 1min 33.88sec.. Fellow Otago paddler James Munro, alongside Hamish Legarth, Grant Clancy and Kurtis Imrie, placed 18th overall in the men’s K4 500m.. They finished ninth in the B final in 1min 21.20sec.. Munro and Imrie dipped out of the men’s K2 500m in the heats, while Legarth and Clancy dipped out in the semifinals.. Quiad Thompson finished 10th overall out

of a field of 41 paddlers in the men’s K5000M in 23min 06.29sec.. He finished 22nd overall in the men’s K1 1000m after finishing fourth in the C final in 3min 30.86sec.. The Kiwi crew now head to Brandenburg, Germany, where they will line up for the Brandenburg Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Cup later this week.

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