Poor start costs Lucy 

Story update: Saturday 23 August 2008 09.25am No medal for Swindon canoeist in Olympic final

 

Tough final: Lucy Wainwright

Swindon-born medal hopeful Lucy Wainwright was beaten into 7th place in today's final of the K1 500m canoeing.

 

The 30-year-old, starting in lane nine, never recovered from a poor start and failed to feature in the top three thoughout the race.

 

Gold went to Ukraine's Inna Osypenko-Radomska, who Wainwright finished second to in the semi-final.

 

"I just never got going," Wainwright told the BBC, "and that's a disappointment to me after such a good semi."

 

Story update: Thursday 21 August 2008 09.32am Wainwright paddles her way to Olympic final!

 

Lucy Wainwright has made it to the final of the K1 500m canoeing competition, after crossing the line in second place at this morning's semi-final.

 

Coming back from a fifth place position by the halfway stage, Wainwright produced a blazing second 250m - finishing in a time of 1:52.280, and pipped to the post only by the Ukraine's Inna Osypenko-Radomska.

The K1 500m final takes place this Saturday 23 August at 4.20pm 

local time - 9.20am our time.

 

Olympic hopeful makes the semi-final in Beijing

20 August 2008 

 

Swindon-born Olympic canoeist Lucy Wainwright is celebrating after qualifying for the semi-final of the women's K1 500m in Beijing.

 

The 30-year-old, who now lives in Nottingham, took third place in the qualifiers yesterday with a time of 1:50.103 - just minutes behind Italy's Josefa Idem and China's Hongyan Zhong.

 

Aiming for a place in the final: Swindon-born canoeist Lucy Wainwright

 

Lucy now hopes to join the likes of Swindon rower Stephen Rowbotham - who took home a bronze for Team GB in the Men's Double Sculls on Saturday - when she takes to the water at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park tomorrow.

 

The race starts at 4.20pm Beijing time - 9.20am our time.

 

Mel Turner-Wright