Slovakia's Hochschorner brothers, Peter and Pavol, completed a hat-trick of Olympic gold medals in the men's C2 slalom race at the Beijing Olympic Games on Friday.

The twin brothers have dominated the event for years, won the event in both the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games.

Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek of Czech Republic took the silver and Russia's Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov won the bronze.

(Xinhua News Agency August 15, 2008)