Walsh snares kayaking silver

Campbell Walsh captured silver for Great Britain with a brilliant display of kayaking in the K1 slalom final - but for several minutes he thought it was bronze.

The Scottish Olympic debutant followed his superb semi-final run with a near-faultless assault on the man-made course in the final.

The first published results said that he had finished third, but officials later recognised a timing error and upgraded Walsh to silver.

His silver was Britain's second medal in the canoeing events at these Games, following Helen Reeves who claimed bronze in the women's K1 on Wednesday.

Despite leading going into the final, Walsh was unable to claim the gold.

The 26-year-old posted the fastest time in his semi-final, finishing 0.25seconds ahead of Frenchman Benoit Peschier and 0.78secs ahead of third-placed Dutchman Sam Oud.

Starting last in the final, Walsh knew exacly what he had to do to take the gold and although he ran into some trouble, he was still able to post the second quickest overall time of 190.17 seconds.

Earlier in the day, C2 gold favourites Stuart Bowman and Nick Smith had failed to reach the final of their event.