Penrith Junior & U23 World Championship Race Analytics

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Jessica Fox claims Under 23 C1 Women's championship. Photo: Delly Carr. For a (photo) video slideshow visit: http://youtu.be/MMS3o-ctjNU

John Gregory | @gregiej | Sportscene - With a historic double for Australia’s Jessica Fox on her home water, the Junior & U23 World Championship provided the opening night of the ICF 2014 canoe slalom season.

However, behind the Jessica Fox media headlines lay many other personal best performances as well as 8 new individual World Champions. Notably in the C2 categories at both Junior and U23 the Czech crews of Matejka & Vetrovsky as well as Kaspar & Sindler won their heat, semi-final and finals respectively.

Look out for a separate Sportscene article soon on the Brazilian Canoe Slalom team performance in Penrith including Ana Satila’s Junior K1W World Championship gold.

JUNIOR WORLDS

Junior winners of the respective heat, semi and final

	Heat	Semi	Final
C1M	Liam Jegou (IRL)	Samuel Ibbotson (GBR) 109.47 (2)	Florian Breuer (GER) 104.31 (2)
C1W	Miren Lazkano (ESP)	Martina Satkova (CZE) 129.53 (2)	Luicie Prioux (FRA) 127.24 (0)
K1M	Niko Testen (SLO)	Jakub Grigar (SVK) 96.83 (2)	Mario Leitner (AUT) 98.48 (0)
K1W	Amalie Hilgertova (CZE)	Sabina Foltysova (CZE) 115.23 (0)	Ana Satila (BRA) 114.48 (2)
C2	Matejka & Vetrovsky (CZE)	Matejka & Vetrovsky (CZE) 125.42 (4)	Matejka & Vetrovsky (CZE) 122.90 (6)

Percentage of winning K1M time

	Name	Country	Time	Percentage
K1M	Mario Leitner	AUT	98.48	100%
C1M	Florian Breuer	GER	104.31	106%
C1W	Lucie Prioux	FRA	127.24	129%
K1W	Ana Satila	BRA	114.48	116%
C2	Michael Matejka & Jan Vetrovsky	CZE	122.90	125%

Mario Leitner’s time in K1M junior was very quick compared against U23 Michal Smolen at 106%.

For the Junior Team Event and Nationals Medal Table download the PDF below.

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U23 WORLDS

U23 winners of the respective heat, semi and final

	Heat	Semi	Final
C1M	Sebastian Rossi (ARG)	Luka Bozic (SLO) 99.92 (0)	Roberto Colazingari (ITA) 98.86 (0)
C1W	Jessica Fox (AUS)	Jessica Fox (AUS) 119.00 (2)	Jessica Fox (AUS) 111.79 (0)
K1M	Jiri Prskavec (CZE)	Rafal Polaczyl (POL) 93.66 (2)	Michal Smolen (USA) 93.10 (0)
K1W	Alison Borrows (AUS)	Jessica Fox (AUS) 107.54 (2)	Jessica Fox (AUS) 105.97 (2)
C2	Kaspar & Sindler (CZE)	Kaspar & Sindler (CZE) 112.58 (4)	Kaspar & Sindler (CZE) 107.99 (2)

Percentage of winning K1M time

	Name	Country	Time	Percentage
K1M	Michal Smolen	USA	93.10	100%
C1M	Roberto Colazingari	ITA	98.86	106%
C1W	Jessica Fox	AUS	111.79	120%
K1W	Jessica Fox	AUS	105.97	114%
C2	Jonas Kaspar & Marek Sindler	CZE	107.99	116%

Notably, Jess Fox’s C1W time was less than 6 seconds slower than her K1W final winning time.

For the U23 Team Event and Nationals Medal Table download the PDF below.

There may have been fewer teams at this year’s Junior & U23 World’s although medals were spread among 17 different nations in the individual classes.
Overall, four nations gained more than 10 boats in the respective finals across junior & U23, being; Australia (13), Czech Republic (12), Great Britain (12) and Slovakia (10).

Of these and excluding team events the Czech team took 2 golds, three silver and two bronze while Australia took two gold and one silver.

Sportscene will next be covering the European Senior Canoe Slalom Championships on May 29th – June 1st on the new Verbund Wasserarena, which opened in Vienna last year. The next ICF races begin with the first of six World Cup races at Lee Valley. Look out for my Sportscene World Cup race 1 preview.

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Photographer: Delly Carr

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