Racing in the morning was suspended and further bad weather in the afternoon meant a further delay of two hours with some races not scheduled to start until after 7:00pm local time.

Carrington eventually claimed her gold in the women’s K4 500m at 6:17pm alongside Alicia Hoskin,Olivia Brett and Tara Vaughan.

They crossed the line in 01:30.606 to beat Poland’s Karolina Naja Anna Pulawska,Adrianna Kakol and Dominika Putol who finished in 01:31.320.

Bronze went to Sara Ouzande, Estefania Fernandez, Carolina Garcia Otero and Teresa Portela of Spain in 01:31.955.

The German men’s K4 500m crew of Max Rendschmidt, Max Lemke,Jacob Schopf and Tom Liebscher-Lucz won the last medal race of the day in a time of 01:19.183.

Hungary’s Bence Nadas, Kolos Czizmadia, Istvan Kuli and Sandor Totka took silver in 01:19.570 while bronze went to the Ukrainian quartet of Oleh Kukharyk, Dmytro Danylenko, Ihor Trunov and Ivan Semykin in 01:19.631.

Earlier, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medallist Balint Kopasz of Hungary won the men’s K1 500 metres with a time of 01:36.262.

Silver went to Australia’s Tokyo Olympic K1 500m gold medallist Jean Van der Westhuyzen in a time of 01:36.632.

There was bronze for Spain’s Fernando Pimenta in 01:36.908.

In the men’s C1 200m Artur Guliev of Uzbekistan won his first major title in the men’s C1 200m.

His time of 38.729 edged out Spain’s Joan Antoni Moreno who finished in 38.769.

Poland’s Oleksii Koliadych, world champion a year ago, had to settle for bronze this time with 39.046.

Romania’s Cătălin Chirilă came home in 1:45.373 to take the men’s C1 500m, Conrad Scheibner of Germany was just behind in 01:45.723 and Moldova’s Serghei Tarnovschi claimed the bronze in 01:46.746.

In the women’s C1 200m, world champion Yarisleidis Cirilo Duboys of Cuba retained her title in 44.799.

Antia Jacome of Spain was second in 45.418 and bronze went to China’s Lin Wenjun in 45.623

Lin Wenjun returned to the water later with Shuai Changwen to take victory in the women’s C2 over 200m in a time of 42.516.

Antia Acome and Maria Corbera of Spain were silver medallists in 42.760 and Lisa Jahn and Hedi Kliemke of Germany won bronze with a time of 43.623.

In the women’s K2 200m, Poland’s Martina Klatt and Helena Wisniewska won gold in a time of 36.681 from Germany’s Paulina Paszek and Jule Hake in 36.877.

Hungary’s Blanka Kiss and Anna Lucz were third in 37.302.

Australia had a superb day in Para canoeing.

In the men’s VL1 200m, Ben Sainsbury repeated his World Championships success of a year ago.

His time of 01:02.735 brought him home in front ahead of David Gonzales of Spain in 01:05.932.

Carlos Glendell Moreira of Brazil won bronze in a time of 01:06.086.

In the men’s KL2 200m, double Tokyo Paralympic gold medallist Curtis McGrath of Australia won in 40.200. 

Ukraine’s Mykola Syniuk took silver with 41.614

Federico Mancanella of Italy was third with a time of 41.658.

Dylan Littlehales upgraded his bronze in 2022 to gold to give Australians even more to celebrate in the men’s KL3 200m with a time of 40.050.

Britain’s Jonathan Young placed second in 40.200

Bronze went to Brahim Guendouz of Algeria who clocked 40.492.

The championships continue until August 27.