The 2016 USA Canoe/Kayak Sprint National Championships are being held in Oklahoma City this week and 14 of the 28 senior national titles have been determined over the last couple of days. To start things off on Wednesday brothers Ian Ross and Gavin Ross dueled for the men’s C1 1000m title with Ian coming out on top by ten seconds. They would team up to win the men’s C2 1000m title by four seconds later in the day. Azusa Murphy took the national title in the women’s C1 1000m by over a minute and a half. The men’s K2 1000m went to Alex Lee and Zsolt Szadovski by 14 seconds while the men’s K4 1000m went to those two along with Jonathan Chee and Jacob McFarlane by eight seconds. In Wednesday’s final events Nicole Mallory won the women’s K1 5000m by 43 seconds while Delaney Valentine was the only one to finish the women’s C1 5000m.
On Thursday Ian Ross made it four national titles for the week by winning the men’s C1 500m by four and half seconds over his brother and the men’s C1 5000m by nine seconds over his brother. Just 25 seconds over 6500m in the three head-to-head matchups between these two so far this week. Kaley Martin won the national title in women’s C1 500m by just under a minute. Matching Ian Ross’ four national titles on the week Lee won the men’s K1 1000m by seven seconds and the men’s K1 5000m by a minute and five seconds. Samantha Barlow also won two national titles on Thursday grabbing the women’s K1 1000m by just 1.43 seconds over Mallory and then teaming up with Kaimi Yoza to win the women’s K2 500m by 12 seconds.
The national championships continue Friday and Saturday with 14 more national titles on the line. Full results are available here.
Men’s C1 500m – Ian Ross
Men’s C1 1000m – Ian Ross
Men’s C1 5000m – Ian Ross
Men’s C2 1000m – Ian Ross and Gavin Ross
Men’s K1 1000m – Alex Lee
Men’s K1 5000m – Alex Lee
Men’s K2 1000m – Alex Lee and Zsolt Szadovski
Men’s K4 1000m – Jonathan Chee, Alex Lee, Jacob McFarlane, and Zsolt Szadovski
Women’s C1 500m – Kaley Martin
Women’s C1 1000m – Azusa Murphy
Women’s C1 5000m – Delaney Valentine
Women’s K1 1000m – Samantha Barlow
Women’s K1 5000m – Nicole Mallory
Women’s K1 1000m – Samantha Barlow and Kaimi Yoza
