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The Latest: Ukraine's Cheban takes canoe gold

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

9:55 a.m.

Defending Olympic champion Yuri Cheban of Ukraine has won the gold medal in the men's 200 meters canoe single.

Cheban beat Valentin Demyanenko of Azerbaijan in a sprint to the finish line.

But the biggest cheers at the Lagoa stadium erupted when it was announced that Brazil's Isaquias Queiroz got the bronze in a photo finish — his second medal at the Rio Olympics.

Cheban fell out of his canoe as he pushed himself past the finish line.