Adam van Koeverden makes it a double

(BEIJING, June 8) -- Just one day after winning the K-1 Men's 1000-meter on Friday, Adam van Koeverden of Canada continued his excellent form, taking the world championship crown of the K-1 Men's 500-meter on Saturday, June 7, in the 2008 MOL ICF Flatwater Racing World Cup hosted in Szeged, Hungary.

The athlete, who won his first Olympic gold medal in this exact course when he was just 22, has become one of the most dominant K-1 paddlers in the world. On Saturday, he finished at 1:45.422, 0.576 seconds ahead of second place Marek Twardowski of Poland, and outplayed 32 year old Athens Olympic K-1 1000-meter winner Eirik Ver