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The Latest: New Zealand's Carrington wins 200M kayak gold

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

10 a.m.

Lisa Carrington has proved once again she's the world's fastest kayaker.

The New Zealander won her second straight gold in the women's 200-meter flatwater race, a furious sprint where paddlers go full throttle for about 40 seconds.

Carrington is also a four-time world champion in the event.

She won the race in 39.864 seconds, ahead of silver medalist Marta Walczykiewicz of Poland and Inna Osipenko-Rodomska of Azerbaijan, who got bronze.

Earlier, Hungarian kayakers Gabriella Szabo and Danuta Kozak won the gold medal in the women's 500-meter double, edging Germany's Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze by just 5 hundredths of a second.