HANK McGregor and Jasper Mocké charged back to the top of the world by claiming victory in Sunday’s K2 race, bringing a golden curtain down on the 2016 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Germany after three frenetic days of racing.While McGregor and Mocké surged to victory, compatriots Louis Hattingh and Andy Birkett raced to a hard-fought third place. At the same time, emerging young female talents Jenna Ward and Kyeta Purchase claimed the silver medal in the K2 event.McGregor and Mocké’s feat, with that of Hattingh and Birkett, capped off a memorable weekend of racing for Team SA’s senior men after Saturday’s action saw McGregor and Birkett clinch a historic South African one-two in the K1 encounter."I managed to pull off the K1 and K2 double in Oklahoma two years ago and again here today, so I’m very happy," said McGregor. Having won in the US in 2014 before being pipped to the post by Adrián Boros and László Solti in 2015, McGregor and Mocké showed their class by turning ...
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