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.
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.
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.
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.
An invitation was issued to all countries in the Americas to send one coach to a world-class Coaching Symposium in Welland, Ontario, Canada to be held in conjunction with the inaugural ICF Canoe Sprint Junior and Under23 World Championship.
Canada’s women’s kayak team was a force to be reckoned with as day two of the 2013 ICF Junior and U23 Canoe Sprint World Championships took place under sunny skies at the Welland International Flatwater Centre. They turned up the heat and enthralled crowds with exhilarating races and close finishes.
Thursday August 1st, 2013 marked the inaugural day of international competition at the newly renovated Welland International Flatwater Centre (WIFC). The Opening Ceremonies of the 2013 ICF Junior and Under 23 Canoe Sprint World Championships kicked off the celebration at the Merritt Park Amphitheatre last night and races began this morning.
In two days, the Welland International Flatwater Centre (WIFC) will welcome over 1000 participants to Canoe Niagara 2013: the ICF Junior and Under 23 Canoe Sprint World Championships.