Germany Secure their First Gold in Duisburg
Hosts claim their first Gold of the event as Tom Kierey (GER) overpowered a hugely experienced line-up in the K1 Men 200m Paracanoe LTA at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg.
Hosts claim their first Gold of the event as Tom Kierey (GER) overpowered a hugely experienced line-up in the K1 Men 200m Paracanoe LTA at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg.
Canada's reigning World Champion and unbeaten - Laurence Vincent Lapointe - is back on the line to defend her C1 and C2 titles. In the C2, she is teaming with Sarah-Jane Caumartin after the retirement of 2-time World Champion Mallorie Nicholson.
Experienced performers were pushed hard as competition for medals continues to intensify in Paracanoe at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg.
Following our proud campaign earlier this year to help Australia's Ros Lawrence finance her title-defending entry to the 2013 Extreme Kayak World Championships, Sportscene joins forces with Sportaroo, the crowd-funding platform that made it possible.
Great Britain dominate on the opening day with six medals as the Paracanoe events provide the first opportunity to step on the podium at the 2013 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg.
K1W freestyle double European Champion (2010, 2012), 7-time French Champion and this year's winner at Sort International, 'Marlou' has a tête-à-tête with Sportscene
Racing at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships gets underway in Duisburg, Germany on Wednesday with the paracanoe events, the first time in the current Olympic cycle that paracanoeists will strut their stuff on a world championship stage alongside their able-bodied peers.
Yura and I try to say something interesting and engaging about our sport for people to take an interest in it. I don’t feel like a media personality. I’m an athlete and my job is to train and race at the competitions.
For the first time since the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, GA, world championship kayaking returns to the United States. The 2013 International Canoe Federation Freestyle World Championships will take place September 2-8 on the Nantahala River near Bryson City, NC.
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.
Paddlers from 42 clubs across Canada will compete at the Canadian Sprint CanoeKayak Championships from Tuesday to Saturday at the Olympic Basin in Montréal. A total of 1000 paddlers will compete for the title of National Champion and club pride in various canoe and kayak events over distances of 200, 500, 1000 and 6000 metres.
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.
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.
Sportscene recently published Ivan Lawler's career memoirs, the five-time marathon World Champion also took time to talk to us about the future of women's canoe sprint.
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.
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 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.
In the first of our new Legends series, Sportscene talks to Ivan Lawler (GBR), multiple marathon World Champion, 1-time K2 10,000m sprint World Champion and participant in 3 Olympic Games from the late 80's to the end of the 90's.
Walter Bouzán and Álvaro F. Fiuza won the K2 category of the Sella Descent for the fourth consecutive time in the year when they announced their retirement.
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.