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
In my capacity as a Peak Performance Coach, I have had the great pleasure to work with some of the world’s top female athletes. Some of the athletes I coach are world champions, some are college scholarship athletes and some are high school phenoms-in-the-making.
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The annual Paddle Round the Pier charity beach festival returned to a sun-baked Brighton last weekend – hundreds of paddlers circumnavigated the ruined West Pier.
Host city for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games – that’s the prize awaiting one of the three candidate cities, Istanbul (Turkey), Tokyo (Japan) and Madrid (Spain), as they made their presentations for the first time to members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) 3 and 4 July 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The first day of the 2013 ICF Wildwater Canoeing Juniors World Championships in Lofer was also the first day of surprises and a Czech double strike. The individual classic races were on the schedule.
The 2-jam freestyle and downriver event on the Lee Valley Legacy course (Olympic's little sister) eventually took place on 30th June following an hour and a half pump hold-up.
It takes resilience to compete at the highest levels of our sport, and even the most successful competitors will experience the pain and disappointment of failure at some time in their careers.
The ICF announces that a decision had to be made to cancel the 2013 ICF Dragonboat Club Crew World Championships due to unforeseen circumstances within Ukraine.
We are looking forward to seeing you in the city of Sort on the natural channel for the great white water festival. Registration for The Sort Open Freestyle International is open and will close on July 20th.
The Spanish team were able to secure two individual medals and two team medals at the third ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup at Parc Olimpic del Segre. Here is a round-up of the World Cup weekend at La Seu d’Urgell.
Women’s canoe events could conceivably make it to a future Olympic programme but it would only be at the cost of an existing canoe or kayak discipline. That was the clear message from the International Olympic Committee which spelled out the hard facts to international sports federations two days ago.
The roadshow continues with over 200 of slalom’s elite going up into the mountains for their third duel as part of the 2013 ICF canoe Slalom World Cup series. There is something symbolic that we migrate from the ‘72 Olympic Eiskanal to Parc Olimpic del Segre in Spain.
The Oklahoma River became the world’s first permanently lit racecourse June 29 in Oklahoma City. A ceremony marked the occasion during the second annual SandRidge Energy Stars and Stripes River Festival.
ICF Canoe Slalom Chair Jean-Michel Prono looks back at the brilliant weekend of racing at Cardiff and looks on to Prague.
Ilya Pervukhin (born July, 6, 1991) is a Russian sprint canoeist. He was the winner of the World and European junior championships. He won gold medals at the European Championships in 2011 and 2013.
For the second in the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup series Germany secured 13 boats for the final on their home water. Kanu Schwaben Augsburg has no less than four past Olympic canoe slalom champions. Here is a round-up of the World Cup weekend on the Eiskanal.
19 year old Jessica Fox went one better than her silver medal performance in Cardiff last weekend to win Gold in the women’s C1 final at ICF World Cup 2 in Augsburg, Germany.
So you’re an elite athlete and your sports governing body appoints a nutritionist to come and advise you on your body’s needs. Trouble is, you need someone you can respect and rely on and this nutritionist is, how shall we put it, um…horizontally challenged?
On the central island at the Cardiff International Whitewater Centre, Sportscene’s Nick Harding and John Gregory look to an exciting day of World Cup racing in this 8 minute edit.
The international elite in canoe slalom prepare for their second duel as part of the 2013 ICF canoe Slalom World Cup series. Here is a short preview of what to expect this weekend for World Cup 2 in Augsburg.
Last year I saw this photo of Stephen Wright and knew that this was a feature I would really like to visit. Then in September at the World Cups I was told about the 2013 Kelly's white water park event, a big white water festival that would be hosted at the end of the US freestyle tour.
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