Kazakhstan garnered the gold medal in the men's C2 500m of canoe
and kayak competition at the Asian Games on Thursday.
Alexandr Dyadchuk and Kaissar Nurmaganbetov of Kazakhstan
secured the gold in one minute and 45.801 seconds.
After taking a gold in the men's C1 500m, China's Olympic
champion Yang Wenjun and his partner Wang Bing snatched a silver
medal in 1:46.341, edging Uzbekistan's Rustam Mirzadiyarov and
Maksim Kiryanov into third place in 1:47.537.
(Xinhua News Agency December 15, 2006)