Lydia Keefe Sampson only defeated two competitors in her two C1 200m races on Friday at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Duisburg, Germany. That meant Sampson was slotted into the Final B that will take place on Saturday. Sampson opened in the heat round by finishing sixth of seven competitors in a time of 52.188. Sampson was 4.426 behind the winner who had pulled away from the field. Sampson finished her semifinal in a time of 53.357 which left her out of the automatic qualifying positions for the Final B but she was able to grab the last spot in the final on best time of those not qualified. Even if she had finished in her heat time she still would have been well short of qualifying for the Final A.

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