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Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2009 37 Current event LOST IN THE LAKE: Nearly 40 swimmers took to the water of Lake Ontario Saturday to participate in the second annual Lake Ontario Swim Team (LOST) open water swim race. Dylan Kent (pictured below) was the first to complete the 3.8kilometre race from Maple Grove Dr. to the lighthouse at Navy St., finishing in a time of 46:05. This year's participation in the event was nearly five times what it was for last year's inaugural event, when eight swimmers participated. Nineteen members of LOST used the swim to prepare for next month's Ironman Louisville. NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER Van Koeverden returns to form at world championships Adam van Koeverden is back, in more ways than one. The 27-year-old Oakville native and former Olympic champion paddled to bronze in the kayak singles 1,000metre event at last weekend's world canoe and kayak championships in Nova Scotia. Van Koeverden led the first half of the race before being overtaken by Germany's Max Hoff and Sweden's Anders Gustafsson. The bronze was a return to the form that eluded the Loyola grad in a disappointing eighth-place finish at last year's Olympic Summer Games in Adam van Koeverden Beijing. Van Koeverden's outing also laid to rest any concerns about his health. He broke his ankle earlier this summer during a white water kayaking trip to the Grand Canyon. While conceding the injury cost him a bit of training time, the Burloak Canoe Club product said the challenge of overcoming that made him a better paddler. His bronze in the 1,000m matches the bronze he won at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Van Koeverden missed the podium, however, in the 500m event at the world championships, finishing fifth. He won silver in the 500m at the 2008 Olympics after claiming gold at the 2004 Games. Adrienne Skinner Meanwhile, Wai Nui O Kanaka Outrigger Club paddlers Wayne MacDonald and Adrienne Skinner made their world championship debut a successful one, earning bronze in the adaptive athletes canoeing doubles 200m event. MacDonald and Skinner completed their race in 1:19.20, roughly 15 seconds short of the pace set by American winners Tami Hetke and Augusto Perez. Brazil's Benedetto Nuca Tola and Sandra Truccolo came second. Initially it appeared that MacDonald and Skinner had finished out of the medals, but the Brazilian team of Jose De Oliveiras Rodrigues and Carlos Roberto Tavares Da Conceicao had regWayne MacDonald istered incorrectly and were racing as a demonstration only. This was the first year that the world championships featured events for adaptive athletes.