Australia's Ken Wallace and Lachlan Tame have defended their canoe sprint world championship silver medal, finishing second behind Germany in the K2 1000 in Milan.
The result gives Australia a second boat at next year's Rio Olympics, after Murray Stewart's sixth placing in the K1 1000 final earlier on Saturday.
Wallace and Tame, who won silver at the titles in Moscow last year after coming together as a pair only months beforehand, went out hard in the final and were sitting third at the halfway stage.
They dropped back to fourth with 250 metres to go, but Wallace's customary powerful finish pulled the Australians back onto the podium.
Pre-race favourites Germany won in a time of 3.10.175, with Wallace and Tame 0.957 seconds behind and Serbia finishing third.
Earlier on Saturday, Stewart faded late in his K1 1000 final to finish sixth, after sitting in a top-three position for most of the race. The top six boats qualify for the Olympics, although the athletes to fill those seats are still to be finalised.
Stewart won gold as part of the K4 crew at the 2012 London Olympics but had decided to concentrate on the solo event for Rio.
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