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Belarusian Volha Khudzenka and Maryna Litvinchuk won the gold medal in the Women’s K2 500m at the 2nd European Games, BelTA reports. 

The Belarusians, who have long been performing together, were off to a speedy start from the first meters of the race at the Zaslavl regatta course, took the lead and held on to it till the finish line. 

Winning time was 1:40.888. Silver went to well-experienced Anna Karasz and Danuta Kozak from Hungary, bronze to Russia’s Kira Stepanova and Anastasia Panchenko.

Earlier  Belarus’ Aleh Yurenia clinched bronze in the Men's K1 1000m. Aleh Yurenia finished +1.355 second behind the frontrunner. Hungary’s Balint Kopasz won gold. Fernando Pimenta of Portugal came second. 

This season Aleh Yurenia lost to Fernando Pimenta in the final of this medal event at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Cup in Poznan, Poland.