SYDNEY, Australia - (Sept. 26) - Olympic canoeing/kayaking sprint results on Tuesday:

Men's 1,000m kayak fours preliminary round (1st 3 in each heat and next fastest to final):

Heat 1:
1. Hungary 2:58.09

Akos Vereckei/Gabor Horvath/
Zoltan Kammerer/Botond Storcz
2. Russia 2:59.76

Evgueni Salakhov/Oleg Gorobii/
Roman Zaroubin/Anatoli Tichtchenko
3. Poland 3:00.16

Grzegorz Kotowicz/Adam Seroczynski/
Dariusz Bialkowski/Marek Witkowski
4. Bulgaria 3:00.63

Milko Kazanov/Petar Merkov/
Iordan Iordanov/Petar Sibinkitch
5. Sweden 3:04.42

Anders Gustafsson/Niklaes Persson/
Erik Lindeberg/Jonas Fager
6. Yugoslavia 3:04.43

Igor Kovacic/Sasa Vujanic/
Jozef Soti/Dragan Zoric
7. France 3:05.80

Frederic Gauthier/Maxime Boccon/
Pierre Lubac/Stephane Gourichon
Heat 2:
1. Germany 2:59.47

Jan Schaefer/Mark Zabel/
Bjorn Bach/Stefan Ulm
2. Slovakia 3:00.95

Robert Erban/Richard Riszdorfer/
Juraj Tarr/Erik Vlcek
3. U.S. 3:01.36

Stein Jorgensen/John Mooney/
Peter Newton/Angel Perez
4. Czech Republic 3:02.05

Karel Lestina/Pavel Hottmar/
Pavel Holubar/Jiri Polivka
5. Romania 3:05.34

Sorin Petcu/Marian Sirbu/
Nicu Romica Serban/Vasile Curuzan
6. Australia 3:05.89

Ross Chaffer/Shane Suska/
Peter Scott/Cameron McFadzean



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