FILE PHOTO: Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Canoe Slalom - Women's C1 - Final - Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre, Tokyo, Japan - July 29, 2021. Mallory Franklin of Britain in action REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File Photo
WALTHAM ABBEY, England (Reuters) - Britain's Mallory Franklin upset Olympic champion Jessica Fox to win gold in the C1 final at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships at the Lee Valley White Water Centre on Friday.
Franklin, who was runner-up to Australian Fox at the Tokyo Olympics, put down a faultless run on a course which was familiar to the British paddlers.
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