Curtis McGrath claims 12th global title with victory at the Paracanoe World Championships in Hungary

Triple Paralympic gold medallist Curtis McGrath has delivered a powerful message to his competitors forward of the Olympic Video games.

With simply over 100 days to travel for the Paris showpiece, McGrath claimed his twelfth world identify when he received the boys’s KL2 200 on the Paracanoe International Championships.

McGrath and teammate Susan Seipel took out gold and bronze respectively to place the Aussies at the medal tally early in Hungary.

McGrath staged a powerful come-from-behind win to complete forward of David Phillipson of Splendid Britain and Brazil’s Fernando Rufino de Paulo.

“It’s nice to get another world championship, my 12th … I’m just over the moon,” he mentioned.

“There are some good conditions, the tail wind is gone and we’ve got a bit of a headwind now.

“I didn’t have the best get started, I wasn’t that hooked up, however I were given there and went with the population and type of stored myself for the utmost 100m … upcoming I had a 2nd kick and got here in the course of the farmland and controlled to complete primary.

“It’s nice to have this hit out before the Games. I think we find where our weaknesses are, find where our strengths are … finding where those weaknesses are so we can get into the next block of training and really work towards the Paris Games in a few months’ time.”

Twin Paralympic medallist Seipel used to be delighted to pluck bronze within the VL2 200m slow Splendid Britain’s Emma Wiggs and Canada’s Brianna Hennessy.

This can be a sure signal for Seipel, who’s aiming so as to add to her Paralympic silver and bronze medals in Paris.

For the Australian Olympic kayak group there’s fairly extra force with fewer than 80 days to travel till Paris.

The Szeged meet can be their ultimate world International Cup for the Aussies ahead of the Video games.

The group were given off to a powerful get started within the opening heats of the hour.

Protecting Olympic champions Tom Inexperienced and Jean van der Westhuyzen received their warmth to place them via to the A Ultimate of the boys’s K2 500.

Off to her 3rd Olympics, Alyce Logs certified immediately via to the A Ultimate next profitable her K1 1,000-metre warmth.

Within the K4 500 ladies, the Aussie group of Best friend Clarke, Aly Bull, Yale Steinepreis and Elle Beere additionally complex to the A Ultimate.

The Australian males’s group of Riley Fitzsimmons, Pierre van der Westhuyzen, Jackson Collins and Noah Havard, received their warmth within the males’s K4 500 to store their spot within the A Ultimate.

Protecting ParaCanoe international champion Dylan Littlehales received the KL3 males 200m warmth to place him via to the semifinal with fellow Aussie Mark Daniels.

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