In the Canoeing, The reigning World Champion Isaquias Queiroz and silver medallist in &lt;a href="Canoeing%20at%20the%202016%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20C-1%201000%20metres"&gt;Rio/2016&lt;/a&gt;, finished with a time of four minutes, 04.408 seconds, ahead of China's Liu Hao and Moldova's Serghei Tarnovschi for his maiden Olympic title. He become the first Brazilian to win an Olympic gold meadal in Canoeing and it was also the fourth Olympic medal in his career. Isaquias had been through adversity in his younger years. As a toddler he poured boiling water on himself and spent a month in hospital recovering, at the age of 5 he was kidnapped and offered up for adoption before being rescued by his mother, and 5 years later he fell out of a tree while trying to catch a snake and lost a kidney.