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German-speaking Italians take top prizes at Italian Slalom Championships
The 2013 Italian Canoe Slalom Championship will enter the history books; not only because it returned to the whitewater stadium in Mezzana, Val di Sole after a 7-year gap but also because the most anticipated titles were won by German-speaking athletes: Victories for Mayr and Horn, Molmenti missed out on the podium.
Preview Italian Slalom Nationals in Mezzana
Twenty years after the 1993’s Worlds, Mezzana and Val di Sole (Trentino, in the heart of the Dolomites) are back on the scene with the Senior Italian Canoe Slalom Championships being held on Aug. 31st and Sept.1st on the rough waters of the Noce River in Mezzana.
Bratislava & overall 2013 World Cup series review
The World Cup series final in Bratislava delivered some sensational fast runs in the final and new World Cup champions in each of the 5 classes. Congratulations.
Who will become the overall winners? Preview World Cup Final Bratislava
We are at the last of the World Cup races already. How did that happen? The overall World Cup series in C1M, K1M and K1W is still wide open and will go down to the wire. We have all the top 10 athletes from this year’s World Cup race series so far in C1M and K1M.
Masterful performance by Peter Kauzer - Review of Tacen World Cup
In my live tweets before Peter’s final run I said “Can Peter Kauzer deliver when it matters on his home course? #Tacen”. 9th place in recent races shows great consistency but isn’t up to Peter’s 2011 World Champion standard. He delivered emphatically with the only sub 100 second run time.
Golden girl Fox creates history
19 year Jessica Fox has won K1 gold on a controversial final day of racing at the fourth ICF World Cup in Tacen, Slovenia. It was a historic moment for the young Australian who held her nerves to execute a clean run under enormous mental pressure to secure her maiden K1 World Cup triumph.
Tacen - One of the toughest and most unpredictable slalom courses in the World
Tacen is always regarded as one of the toughest and most unpredictable courses in the World. We are back on the Sava river in the picturesque town in the foothills of the Smarna Gora Mountains for World Cup race 4.
Canoe slalom at the Torino World Masters Games
The Masters Games are held every four years, attracting around 25 000 athletes aged from 35 to over 90, competing in 40 sports. Ivrea Canoe Club hosted the slalom event, where over 100 paddlers took part on 7 August.
Results round up Junior & U23 canoe slalom European Championships
GBR top medal table in U23 and France do so in Junior European Championship (excluding team events) high in the Rhône-Alpes on the River Isere near Bourg St Maurice.
Newsletter Rosalyn Lawrence
I have just finished a training camp in Prague, where the World Championships will be held in September. Despite the entire venue recently being flooded to record levels, the course was completely repaired and ready to paddle on.
Final wrap up Junior & U23 Worlds - Czech Republic and Slovakia top medal tables
It has been a phenomenal week of sunshine and slalom action from the best Juniors and U23 paddlers in the world, following it has been riveting and a real wake-up call for senior paddlers just how far on this field have come on this season alone.