Dickson set the tone with gold in the men's time trial before Leaver won bronze in the women's kayak cross final, her first senior World Cup medal.

Her fellow Scot, Dickson, completed the set on the day with silver in the men's kayak cross final to see Great Britain leave Spain with four medals in total.

The day began with Dickson producing an impressive run to top the time trial in a time of 47.37.

“Winning the time trial definitely gave me a lot of confidence,” he said. “The only other time I have won the time trial at senior level, I went on to win the head-to-head competition.

“I think definitely for me there is something in that, and getting out fast off the start is good for me, so I can try and avoid confrontation.”

Nikita Setchell was the only Brit not to advance to the heats with a fault on her time trial run.

All the Brits who qualified for the heats made it through to the quarter-finals.

Sam Leaver came out on the wrong side of a battle with Martin Rudorfer to finish third in his quarter-final.

Dickson and Ben Haylett raced against each other in the last 16, with the former advancing as he finished second behind David Llorente, with Haylett missing out in third.

In the women's kayak cross, Kimberley Woods just missed out on a place in the semi-finals after a messy quarter-final, while Leaver made it safely through in first.

Leaver then produced a strong semi-final performance to advance to the final, where she picked up bronze after review.

The 23-year-old had initially finished just outside the medals in the showpiece before Ajda Novak was ranked as last.

She said: “The final was very dramatic, it feels like a bit of a blur now. Going into the final, I had someone come in on top of me, taking contact first up, I thought was a little bit tricky, fighting from the get-go.

“Then I was just trying to stay calm further down, it all happened very fast though and at the end with Adja Novak overtaking me, I was a little disappointed, but to come away with a medal I was definitely excited.

“It is the first senior medal that I have had, and it feels like I’ve made really big progress since last year, especially at senior level.”

In the men's semi-finals, Dickson was able to find clean water to sail through to the final, moving from third to first in the closing stages.

It was a similar late burst that saw him rise from bronze to silver in the final as he breezed past Jan Rohrer of Switzerland for his second medal of the day.

“Two medals in one day, I am really happy with the day's work,” he said. “Obviously it was a great start by winning the time trial, which I think helps you get through the rounds.

“In the final, I knew I was very much still in contention because in the semis I had gone from being behind to then winning on the last up, and I just paddled what was in front of me.



“I made the right call and it got me from bronze to silver, but it could have easily got me to gold if those guys had got tangled up, but that is just the way it goes.”