Burgess wins first World Cup silver in six years
The 32-year-old saw off competition from Olympic champion Nicolas Gestin to finish in second, behind Slovenia's Luka Bozic.
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Burgess produced a stunning run during the heats in north-east Spain to move to the top of the standings.
The Stoke-born paddler was last to compete in the finals, but produced a penalty-free run to the start the season in emphatic fashion.
Burgess won Olympic silver in the individual canoe at the Paris Games, having agonisingly missed out on a medal by 0.16 seconds in Tokyo in 2020.
"I'm always there or thereabouts, and we have done a lot of work to try and bring out those runs in the final, and I guess today, my worst run was the final, but that heat was something pretty special," said Burgess.
"It was great to come close to it again there."
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