Hawaii's Ryan Dolan wins third kayak event at Oklahoma City
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Maryknoll senior Ryan Dolan of the Hawai'i Canoe/Kayak Team today won his third event at the U.S. Canoe/Kayak Flatwater Sprint Olympic Team Trials in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Dolan won the junior men single-kayak 1,000-meter final in 4 minutes, 5.010 seconds. BJ Campbell of Hawai'i was fourth in 4:14.985. On Friday, Dolan won the junior men single-kayak 500-meter final and teamed with Campbell to win the kayak pairs 500-meter final.
Dolan's brother, Patrick, a Maryknoll (2006) alum, finished third in two senior men's events today.
Rami Zur won the won the 1,000-meter single-kayak race by edging Jeff Smoke and then teamed with Smoke to win the pairs kayak race. Zur had to come from behind in the 1,000. Dolan took the early lead, and Smoke was ahead at the halfway point, with Zur in fourth. Zur then made his charge and pulled past Smoke in the final 200 meters.
Zur finished in 3 minutes, 44.542 seconds. Smoke finished in 3:45.744, and Dolan came in third in 3:53.289. House was less than six-hundredths of a second behind Dolan. Eric Abbott, a 2006 Punahou graduate, was fifth in 3:57.535.
Zur and Smoke capped the day by edging Brandon Woods, a 2002 Mid-Pacific graduate from Kane'ohe, and Bartosz Wolski in the pairs competition. Zur and Smoke were timed in 3:29.612, with the Woods-Wolski tandem at 3:30.734. Dolan and Morgan House took third in 3:35.561.
Kati Erwin of Hawai'i was eighth in the senior women single-kayak 1,000 meters in 5:04.919. Giulia Anderson of Hawai'i was fourth in the junior women single-kayak 1,000 meters in 4:56.086.
The three-day event ends tomorrow.