By PA Sport Staff

Tim Brabants paddled his kayak into the final of the men's K1 1,000m race on Thursday with a time of three minutes and 37.205 seconds.

Brabants, 23, struggled over the third 250m stretch but covered the final leg in 55.045 seconds - faster than anyone in the semi-final - to take second place behind Norway's Knut Holmann (3:36.425).

Ireland's Gary Mawer was ninth (3:50.363) in the same race and misses the final.

In the two-man kayak, Britons Paul Darby-Dowman and Ross Sabberton did not progress to their final after only managing a fifth place time of 3:19.826 in their K2 semi-final.

British brothers Andrew and Steve Train, in the two-man canoe, failed to reach the men's C2 1,000m final as they finished fourth (3:45.624).

Defending Olympic champion Martin Doktor of the Czech Republic, meanwhile, has been reinstated in the C1 500m final.

Doktor had been disqualified following a protest by German rival Andreas Dittmer that he had infringed the five-metre rule, but a jury has overturned the Competition Committee's decision to toss him out of the final after deciding there was no concrete evidence to suggest he had committed an infraction.