Wrap up 2013 Nelo Winter Challenge
The Nelo Winter Challenge 2013 took place yesterday in Montemor with competitors from all continents and 18 countries. 600 paddlers participated in the first race of the season in Portugal.
The Nelo Winter Challenge 2013 took place yesterday in Montemor with competitors from all continents and 18 countries. 600 paddlers participated in the first race of the season in Portugal.
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is pleased to announce the 2013 ISA World Standup Paddle and Paddleboard Championship begins on Sunday.
The 2013 Australian Open will commence at Penrith Whitewater Stadium on Friday 22 February with athletes from 12 countries set to showcase their talents down the fast and challenging Sydney Olympic course. Here you can watch the livestream and find the live results.
Livestream and results for the 2013 ISA World StandUp Paddle and Paddleboard Championship in Lima, Peru. This event is an ISA World Championship that features 48 men and 24 women in each of three divisions: SUP surfing, SUP racing and Paddleboard.
Former French canoe slalom World champion Julien Billaut and Great Britain C2 Olympic Coach Nick Smith have joined the Australian coaching setup at the Australian National Centre of Excellence in Penrith, officially starting today.
I’ve learned that the most successful athletes in any discipline are the ones who have learned how to master their performance – and this involves far more than what happens on the water.
The final day of The Unlimited Dusi canoe marathon saw both heroics and heartbreak for the leading men as Lance Kime raced his way to his maiden victory in the three day journey from Pietermaritzburg to Durban whilst the winner of both the first and second stages, Sbonelo Zondi, watched his fairytale go up in smoke as he had to settle for third.
CanoeKayak Canada is pleased to announce the hiring of Scott Logan as its new High Performance Director. Logan comes to this position with an impressive resume of leadership experience in sport, government and the corporate sector.
Olympic canoeist David Cal, Spain’s most prolific Olympic medalist with five medals to his name, is to leave the country and train for the next Olympic Games in Brazil.
Sbonelo Zondi's fairytale continued on the second day of The Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon 2013 as he bagged a second stage win, and takes a one minute lead into the final stage after a day that saw the leaderboard undergo a dramatic shake-up.
When the water level of the Doubs breaks through the magical border of 400 m3/s, all 'big wave lovers' in Europe get excited. The Doubs is home to the waves of 'la Scie', 'la Malate', 'Millenium' and 'Deluz'.
August 2013, 9 stand up paddlers will navigate Greenland's iceberg-littered Sermilijk Fjord on route to the Helheim Glacier becoming the first explorers to ever undertake such a paddleboard feat.
The opening day of the 2013 The Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon was set alight by the youth in one of the race’s most competitive fields ever as both Sbonelo Zondi and Robyn Kime blazed their way to new stage records, giving themselves the perfect platform to build on over the next two stages of the three day affair.
Robyn Kime smashed the first day record and blitzed her nearest challengers on the opening day of The Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon, contested between the Natal Canoe Club at Camps Drift and Dusi Bridge, over a distance of 42 kilometers. She will take a lead of close to 14 minutes over Abby Adie into day two.
The International Canoe Federation tweeted the news somewhat excitedly: ”So the International Olympic Committee has confirmed that Canoeing will be on the Olympic Programme for 2020 and 2024!!!”
An official report into the use of performance-enhancing drugs among professional Australian athletes claims their use is “widespread and organised”.
Having recently reviewed the book by three-time Olympic slalom champion Tony Estanguet, I spent a few days trawling the sports biography section of my local book shop. Now I see there’s speculation that people who bought Lance Armstrong’s books may try to sue him on the basis that they were mostly a pack of lies.
PASO approved the Sprint and Slalom Competition Programmes submitted by COPAC for the “XVII Pan American Games, Toronto2015” with the inclusion of the C1 women event for both disciplines
An In-Depth Analysis as to Why Women’s Canoe Isn’t in the Olympics
The annual magazine of the International University Sports Federation has just landed on my doormat and, for once, has a big canoeing focus.