Delfour just shy of K1 canoe slalom メダル
Lucien Delfour has been unable to 追加する a third canoe slalom Olympic メダル to Australia's 一致する, finishing eighth in the men's K1 final.
Delfour 力／強力にするd through the 堅い Tokyo whitewater course to sit third, but he wasn't able to 持つ／拘留する his podium place with the five fastest qualifiers in the final still to 完全にする their run on Friday afternoon.
World 支持する／優勝者 Czech Jiri Prskavec, who won bronze in Rio, blitzed the field to finish 3.22 seconds （疑いを）晴らす.
Slovakia's Jakub Grigar took silver with Germany's Hannes Aigner （人命などを）奪う，主張するing bronze.
Delfour incurred a two-second time 刑罰，罰則 for knocking the sixth gate, while he almost （機の）カム unstuck in the 底（に届く） half of the Kansai course taking on some challenging late gates.
The 32-year-old's time of 102.33 was 10.7 seconds behind 勝利者 Prskavec.
Delfour was chasing Australia's third canoe slalom メダル after チーム仲間 Jessica Fox won gold in the women's C1 and bronze in the K1.
Delfour's result is a big 改良 on his 17th placing in Rio.
