Linnea Stensils was forced by just nine thousandths to run the quarterfinals instead of going straight to the semifinals.

But in today's second race, the margins were on her side and she won her heat by almost three hundredths ahead of the Serbian Milica Novakovic, who also goes on.

Small margins

200 meters is the canoe's equivalent to the sprint distances of athletics or swimming.

The margins are small and sometimes cruel, the Swede became very aware of this in the test heat.

In the finish, it was only nine thousandths of a second to the runner-up, Polish Marta Walczykiewicz, the position that gave a direct place to one of two semifinals.

The Swede, who finished seventh in the 200 meters in Rio 2016, will also compete in the 500 meters later in the Olympics.