Burgess wins first World Cup silver in six years

Great Britain's Adam Burgess claimed a first C1 World Cup metallic since 2019 aft a "pretty special" tally successful nan heats.

The 32-year-old saw disconnected title from Olympic champion Nicolas Gestin to decorativeness successful second, down Slovenia's Luka Bozic.

Burgess produced a stunning tally during nan heats successful north-east Spain to move to nan apical of nan standings.

The Stoke-born paddler was past to compete successful nan finals, but produced a penalty-free tally to nan commencement nan play successful emphatic fashion.

Burgess won Olympic metallic successful nan individual canoe astatine nan Paris Games, having agonisingly missed retired connected a badge by 0.16 seconds successful Tokyo successful 2020.

"I'm ever location aliases thereabouts, and we person done a batch of activity to effort and bring retired those runs successful nan final, and I conjecture today, my worst tally was nan final, but that power was thing beautiful special," said Burgess.

"It was awesome to travel adjacent to it again there."