Tame takes silver in Moscow

NSWIS paddler Lachlan Tame has enjoyed the best result of his career with a stirring silver medal win at the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Moscow, Russia.

Joining compatriot Ken Wallace in the K2 boat, the Australian pair led the field through 250m before the Slovakian duo made ground on them during the middle 500m. A surge over the final 250m ensured Tame and Wallace secured silver over their fast-finishing Serbian competitors.

"It wasn’t our most comfy race, but I just wanted to get real angry out there, and I did," an exhausted Tame said to Australian Canoeing.

"I did really well in the last 150, I think I nearly blacked out and fell in, but we got second and that’s awesome.”

While Tame was the only NSWIS athlete to come away with a medal, there were a number of top-10 performances from his fellow scholarship holders; Murray Stewart finished fifth in the men’s K1 1000m, setting a new personal best time of 3:26.954; para-canoeist Colin Sieders improved on last year’s seventh place to finish sixth in the men’s arms-only K1 200m, and Jo Brigden-Jones and Naomi Flood teamed together to place seventh in the women’s K2 500m.