Murray Stewart Dominates Selection Events

Funky Trunks kayakers Murray Stewart, Steve Bird and Jesse Phillips performed very well at the first round of selections for Rio at the Grand Prix 2 in Penrith over the weekend.

Murray Stewart blew the competition out of the water with a perfect regatta performance adding the K4 1000 and K2 1000 victories to his K1 1000 win on Saturday.

Stewart and Jacob Clear upstaged World Championship silver medalists Ken Wallace and Lachlan Tame in the K2 final winning by 0.32 seconds.

Stewart, Clear, Wallace and David Smith combined to take out the K4 1000 final in 3:01.35, 0.71 seconds ahead of their nearest rivals.

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Steve Bird completed the 200 metre double by adding the K2 200 victory alongside Jesse Phillips, to his K1 200 triumph yesterday.

The London Olympians dominated the final finishing a boat length clear of fellow Western Australian's Brodie Holmes and Todd Brewer.

Phillips was "very satisfied" with the win.

"My development through the season has had to be fast tracked for this event so I am really happy to come away with the win and certainly more so happy to come away with the margin that we did which is really exciting," Phillips said.

The athletes will now return to their home states and start preparing for the National Sprint Championships at the Sydney International Regatta Centre from 11 to 15 March.

*Info courtesy of http://canoe.org.au/