Australia's Ken Wallace has won two gold medals on the final day of racing at the ICF canoe sprint World Cup.
The Currumbin Creek kayaker dominated the K1 5000 final winning in 19:14.0.43. He finished more than six seconds ahead of German Max Hoff and Aleh Yurenia of Belarus.
Fellow Queenslander Bill Bain finished sixth.
Earlier, in the same event he won gold in at the Beijing Olympics, the K1 500, Wallace powered home in the closing 250 to win in 1:40.152, 0.317 seconds ahead of Pawel Szandrach of Poland.
Fellow Australian Jordan Wood went out hard but faded in the closing stages to finish seventh in a world class field.
The victory for Wallace has continued his rich vein of form, making it four medals for the series so far, with a third and final World Cup to be held in Copenhagen from May 29-31.
Following his silver medal performance in the K2 1000 alongside Lachlan Tame yesterday, Wallace was feeling much fresher for today's race.
"I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday afternoon that is for sure," Wallace said.
"We have been doing a lot of K2 work the last few weeks and not really a lot of hard strokes in the singles so the heat was a struggle, the semi was pretty good yesterday arvo and today in the final it is a whole new day and I was back on it."
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