J. PRSKAVEC
M. POLACZYK
M. SMOLEN
K. KUDEJOVA
R. FUNK
M. PFEIFER
D. FLORENCE
B. SAVSEK
R. WESTLEY
J. FOX
K. HOSKOVA
N. VILARRUBLA
ANTON/BENZIEN
PICCO/BISO
KLAUSS/PECHE
A built up area in the middle of the Middle East desert with a modern centre for white water sports seems to be an idea from science fiction. Where else could this idea be realized, other than in the United Arab Emirates. There are famous buildings such as the Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab, The World - artificial islands, indoor ski centre and many other futuristic attractions.
The 2014 Canoe Marathon season begins with the feeling of being at the start of a new era. After a few years of establishing and consolidating a fixed format for international competitions, standardising distances, laps, and portage rules, 2014 will see a new step forward with the World Champs to be held in the USA after 14 years without visiting the American continent. On top of this, the world will be waiting to see the new format introduced at the World Cup.
The Payette River Games are back and they are going to be even bigger and better than last year. Launched in 2013, the Payette River Games are one of the most talked about events on the world kayaking circuit. Set at the Kelly’s Whitewater Park, in the small town of Cascade deep in the heart of Idaho, the PRG's will see hundreds of competitors come together to take part in 3 days of non-stop action sports.
A celebration of action sports and the outdoors, a series of extreme kayaking and stand up paddling short films feature in the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour.
The International Canoe Federation has voted to drop mens K2 (kayak pairs) 200m sprint racing from the Olympic programme to make way for a new women’s canoe event.
It's hard to explain in today's slalom terms, to people who know slalom as an Olympic sport, what our sport was like only ten years ago. We who were there are now "old- school"-we were kayakers before people knew what kayakers were.
GB Canoeing have called in consultants to advise them on how to make sprint canoeing – that’s high kneeling rather than kayaking – a bigger, better sport.
I started sprint canoeing at Fladbury Canoe Club in 2005, at the time, a bustling hub for “High Kneeling” canoeists. Looking back on those days I spent there I can see why: not only did they have Olympians Andrew and Steve Train dedicated to coaching, they also had canoe equipment and a calm stretch of river to train on.
Although whitewater canoeing doesn’t get as much spotlight as it’s more known cousins – the Olympic disciplines of canoe slalom and sprint canoeing – canoeing fans still look forward to the most important competitions in this discipline. This year all eyes will be turned to Italy where ICF World Championships will take place.
The Canoe Sprint world is flying into the 2nd year of the Olympic cycle, and with only a year to go until the first round of Olympic qualifications, 2014 should be a pretty exciting season.
It's hard to explain in today's slalom terms, to people who know slalom as an Olympic sport, what our sport was like only ten years ago. We who were there are now "old- school"-we were kayakers before people knew what kayakers were.
Dusi Queen Abbey Ulansky clinched a record ninth career victory on Saturday when she and her partner, fast emerging Dusi Princess Robyn Kime, held off a valiant effort from Abby Adie and Anna Adamová to clinch a hard-fought victory in the women’s race of the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon.
The final curtain came down on the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon amidst a frenzy of celebrations after Andy Birkett and Sbonelo Zondi were the first to the finish line at Blue Lagoon in Durban in front of thousands of supporters, friends and family to round out a near perfect performance by the pair over the three exhausting days of racing in the Msundusi and Mngeni River valleys.
How do you make your canoeing training as effective as possible when you can't go out on the water? It's a question that's occupied a lot of minds in Europe this winter as the continent was repeatedly lashed by floods, high winds and freezing temperatures.
2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon overnight women’s race leaders Robyn Kime and Dusi Queen Abbey Ulansky managed to stretch their already slender lead ever so slightly on Friday’s second stage from Dusi Bridge to Inanda Dam however just ninety seconds now separates them from their chasers and the tight affair promises to produce a fascinating final day’s contest on Saturday.
Friday’s second stage of the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon quickly became the Birkett/Zondi show as the overnight leaders piled the pressure onto their chasers, increasing their overnight five and a half minute lead to a mammoth nine minutes and now have one hand firmly on the coveted Player Family winner’s trophy.
I had a close friend ask me the other day – “Is it worth it?” I knew immediately what she was referring to even though she didn’t define it. She was asking, was it worth training for the Olympics even though you didn’t make it.
The women’s opening encounter of the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon was a hard-fought affair which sees Robyn Kime and Abbey Ulansky a mere twenty nine seconds ahead of Abby Adie and Czech Republic’s Anna Adamová going into Friday’s second stage.
The opening stage of the 2014 Dusi Canoe Marathon from Camps Drift in Pietermaritzburg to Dusi Bridge in the uMsundusi Valley was one of high drama and great movement as the title hopeful men’s crews looked to overcome the scorching heat of the runner-favoured leg with Andy Birkett and Sbonelo Zondi claiming a substantial five minute thirty three second lead going into Friday’s second stage.
He passes for any hip 25 year old Pietermaritzburg man, but for Sam Phungula his chance encounter with canoeing after leaving school has changed his life, and he has a passion to share his enthusiasm for paddling with as many of his peers as possible.
M. DAWSON
C. KUHNLE
M. BENUS
A. PETERS
V. KHUDZENKA
E. MEDVECKZKY
GRIJIC/NOVAKOVIC
L. QIANG
M. DE JONGE
R. POULSEN
A. CHERVOVA
S. TARNOVSCHI
J. MOCKE
E. LEVEMYR
S. RAFAEL
H. TAKAKU
M. GRAZIANI
J. EGAN
N. LJUBEK
MINDE/HAMAR
PINTA/MOZZICAFI
S. LAMMLER
A. BUSLAIEVA
M. WEGMAN
S. REINOSO