Czech kayakers Dostál and Paloudová win bronze in 500m mixed event

Czech kayakers Josef Dostál and Anežka Paloudová won the bronze medal in the mixed 500m double kayak even at the ICF Sprint World Championships in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Saturday.

The Czech couple, who got engaged in June, finished less than a second behind the winning Portuguese duo Teresa Portela and Messias Baptista.

The newly crowned Olympic champion Dostál is also set to compete in the men’s 500m final on Sunday, while his fiancée will appear in the final of the mixed four event and in the women’s 5000m race.