Russians won licenses for the Olympic Games 2020 in kayaks four at a distance of 500 m

The Russian quartet of Artyom Kuzakhmetov, Alexander Sergeyev, Oleg Gusev and Vitaly Ershov took fourth place at the 2019 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, showing a result of 1 minute 21 seconds, and thereby won a license for the Games in Tokyo.

Another license in this discipline was won by Russians Kira Stepanova, Anastasia Panchenko, Kristina Kovnir and Anastasia Dolgova, who became the ninth in the world championship.

It was previously reported that Russian canoeists won gold in the four-person competition at the World Championships in rowing.