Belarus came from behind to win the canoe double 1,000 meters race at the Olympic Games in the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on Friday.

Andrei and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich upset defending Olympic champions Germany to win a thrilling race in 3 minutes, 36.365 seconds, 0.223 seconds ahead of Christian Gille and Thomasz Wylenzek.

The Germans, who also took world titles in 2005 and 2007, led all the way but were surpassed by Belarus brothers in the last meters.

Gyorgy Kozmann and Tomas Kiss of Hungary took bronze in 3:40.258. Chinese crew of Chen Zhongyun and Zhang Zhiwu came in fifth place.

(Xinhua News Agency August 22, 2008)