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CZECH REPUBLIC:<\/strong> Four local athletes have fared well at a World Cup canoe and kayak championship as members of Team Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michelle Russell of Fall River; Riley Melanson; Sloan MacKenzie of Windsor Junction; and Craig Spence of Dartmouth all compete out of the Cheema Aquatic Club in Waverley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All were competing at the world cup event in Racice, Czech Republic. All four now turn their focus to the World Cup event next weekend in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”156″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russell finished first in the K-1, 500-metre B Final (10th<\/sup> overall in the world); while she teamed with Riley Melanson to come home eighth in the K-2, 500-metre race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Melanson was eighth in the A final, K-4 500-metre race with Team Canada teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spence bright home a ninth-place finish in the Semi-final of the C-2, 500-metre race, and a fourth-place finish in the C-2, 1,000-metre A Final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n MacKenzie came home fourth the semi-final for the C-2, 500-metre race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also wound up in eighth place in the A Final of the C-1, 500-metre race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The athletes will now prepare for the World Cup competition in Poland beginning Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”150″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”161″] CZECH REPUBLIC: Four local athletes have fared well at a World Cup canoe and kayak championship as members of Team Canada. Michelle Russell of Fall River; Riley Melanson; Sloan MacKenzie of Windsor Junction; and Craig Spence of Dartmouth all compete out of the Cheema Aquatic Club in Waverley. All were competing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[400,403,739,3731],"class_list":["post-28741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cheema","tag-michelle-russell","tag-sloan-mackenzie","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}