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Summary The quartet won in a time of 2 minutes, 55.084 seconds.
Australia won gold in the mens 1,000-meter K-4 at Dorney Lake on Thursday, surprising the favored crews of Hungary and Slovakia to capture only the countrys third Olympic title in canoe sprint.The quartet of Tate Smith, Dave Smith, Murray Stewart and Jacob Clear won in a time of 2 minutes, 55.084 seconds. Hungary was a half-length behind to take silver and Czech Republic won bronze, pushing Slovakia out of the medals.Their win follows previous Australian triumphs at the Olympics by Clint Robinson in the mens K-1 1000 in Barcelona in 1992 and Ken Wallace in the now-defunct 500-meter K-1 in Beijing four years ago.The Australians were silver at last years world championship but havent been a threat at the World Cup events in 2012.Their victory denied Hungarian great Zoltan Kammerer a fourth Olympic gold medal.It was Australias sixth gold at the London Games.
