Canoe sprint brothers Andrei and Alexander Bogdanovich claim first gold medal for Belarus at the European Games

Canoe sprint brothers Andrei and Alexander Bogdanovich claim first gold medal for Belarus at the European Games, winning the C2 1000m final race in 3:34.412 minutes, on Mingecevir’s rowing channel.


The Bogdanovich brothers held back until near the finish, pulling ahead of Russian Ilya Pervukhin and Alexei Korovashkov, and Germany’s Peter Kretschmer and Michael Mueller, who took bronze. The brothers’ gold is the first medal for Belarusian national team at the European Games in Baku.