Alyssa Bull has won a silver medal in the K1 1000 at her first sprint canoe World Cup event of the European season in Szeged, Hungary.
The 21-year-old Australian was less than a second away from gold after clocking a time of 3min 51.511sec, fractionally behind local hope Dora Bodonyi's 3:50.250.
"I had a race plan, I stuck with it, but I didn't quite have enough at the end," Bull said.
"I didn't expect anything today, so I'm really happy.
"That was really hard, but I'm really stoked how that went."
Despite her success in the single event, Bull will maintain her focus on the team boat event - in which she and fellow Queenslander Alyce Burnett qualified for the Rio Olympics in the K2 500.
"I'm really glad I get to get some K1 experience internationally," she said.
"Unfortunately it's not an Olympic sport, but sometimes that's the best way to start."
Bodonyi won the gold in a time of 3:50:250, with Bull finishing in 3:51:511.
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