Portugal’s Fernando Pimenta continued his incredible 2018 season with K1 victory at the inaugural canoe sprint Pre-Super Cup in Linyi, China, on Tuesday.

Canada’s Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, unbeatable this year in C1 and C2 events, added a Pre-Super Cup title to her impressive resumé, the Czech Republic’s Martin Fuksa took the men’s C1 title, and New Zealand’s Caitlin Ryan took the women’s K1.

Pimenta has enjoyed a break-out season in canoe sprint, winning K1 1000 and 5000 world cup titles, following up with a world championship golden double in front of home fans in Portugal, and now adding the Pre-Super Cup to his collection.

Pimenta powered down the 600 metre course to finish ahead of a crack field which included former K1 1000 world champion, Germany’s Tom Liebscher, Olympic K1 200 silver medallist, Maxime Beaumont of France, and K1 500 world champion Roi Rodriguez of Spain.

Vincent-Lapointe is on track to win double gold when women’s canoe makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2020, and on Tuesday she underlined her dominance with a convincing win over the 600 metre Linyi course.

Vincent-Lapointe finished 1.398 seconds ahead of her Canadian C2 partner, Katie Vincent, with China’s Shixiao finishing third.

Czech Fuksa took advantage of the absence of Germany’s Sebastian Brendel and Brazil’s Isaquias Dos Santos to win the men’s C1 title, holding off Poland’s Tomasz Kaczor by 0.925 seconds in an exciting finish.

China’s Pengfei Zheng finished third.

Caitlin Ryan, who partnered Olympic gold medallist Lisa Carrington to K2 500 world championship gold and silver medals, reminded fans of her abilities as a K1 paddler with a win in Linyi.

Ryan finished more than one second ahead of Belarus’s Volha Khudzenka, a 2017 K1 500 world champion, with Australia’s Alyce Burnett finishing third.

The athletes will head to Barnaul, Russia, for the Sprint Super Cup, starting Friday.