Slovak canoeists Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner won the gold medal in the men's slalom pair event at the 28th Olympic Games on Friday.

The Slovak pair, who led the semi-finals, won the race in 207.16 seconds.

Marcus Backer and Stefan Henze, who were ranked second after the semi-finals, had the silver at 210.98 and Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek of Czech Republic took the bronze at 212.86.

(Xinhua News Agency August 20, 2004)