Posts Tagged ‘C2 Men’

Great day for Germans, 4 medals at World Cup and 4:0 with Argentina

Great day for Germans, 4 medals at World Cup and 4:0 with Argentina

Augsburg (CSN) – Saturday was another hot day in Augsburg. Who ever could, he just jumped to the river of Lach just to refresh himself and get some energy to watch the semifinals of C2, C1 women and K1 men in the morning and finals in the afternoon. In C2 category Olympic winners Hochschorners finished [...]

Slafkovsky fastest, Germans very strong

Slafkovsky fastest, Germans very strong

Augsburg (CSN) – The first day of third and final round of 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup in Augsburg was hot with more than 30 degrees of Celsius. Spectators were having a good day at Eiskanal, enjoying radler in the shadow of the only tree at the course or went swimming during the break [...]

Cousins Skantar’s won in tight finals

Cousins Skantar’s won in tight finals

Seu d’Urgell (CSN) – Sunday finals of the 2nd 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup race started at 12.00 o’clock with C1 men. Stanislav Ježek from Czech Republic who won qualification beat the rest of the paddlers with more than 4 seconds to the right side paddling canoeists and got gold medal. Silver medal went [...]

Hannes Aigner fastest in semi

Hannes Aigner fastest in semi

Seu d’Urgell (CSN) – Sunday, another sunny day in La Seu, started with C1 men semi-final of second ICF World Cup 2010 race. Spanish paddlers confirmed they know the course very well and took first two places in semifinal with first Jordi Domenjo and second Ander Elosegi. On third position finished David Florence from Great [...]

Saturday’s heats finished with some surprises

Saturday’s heats finished with some surprises

Seu d’Urgell (CSN) – La Seu d’Urgell is very popular between the paddlers. Not only because of the course, but also thanks to Andorra, which is very close and if you visit any paddlers room, you do not think he is an athlete, but also because of the great position of the course next to [...]

Chinese rule the canoe slalom

Chinese rule the canoe slalom

Prague (CSN) – Finals ended completely differently than semifinals. First final cagerory, C1 women, ended up with two first places taking Chinese girls Nangin Cen and Qlanqlan Teng and at third place finished Slovakian Katarína Macová. Two favourites Jana Dukátová and whole weekend leading Jessica Fox got 50 second penalties and finished at sixth and [...]

After Florence’s fault Martikan advances to finals

After Florence’s fault Martikan advances to finals

Prague (CSN) – Saturady morning started with semifinal runs of all canoeists classes. The course for semifinals and finals is much more difficult than the previous for heats, it doesn’t follow the water so much, there are many places, where you have to use the power and turn the boat against the water. The course [...]

Kauzer wins in Solkan

Kauzer wins in Solkan

Solkan (SLOKA) – Luka Božič and Sašo Taljat were not able to prepare another surprise in C2 event, after they shocked Slovakian duo in heats. They were very close, though, to winners Peter and Pavol Hochschorner from Slovakia. Bronze medallists from last year’s World Championships in La Seu d’Urgell Luka Božič and Sašo Taljat were [...]

Ouch! Tim Baillie’s broken collarbone

Ouch! Tim Baillie’s broken collarbone

At the end of the last year Tim Baillie from Great Britain had an accident on mountain bike and broke his collarbone. What happened exactly? I was mountain biking near Nottingham on a very windy day. I went off a small jump and got blown sideways in the air; I landed squint and crashed off [...]

Skantars are preparing for gold

Skantars are preparing for gold

What are you doing in these days? Ladislav » At the beginning of November we have been on training camp in Rajecke Teplice, where we officially started winter season and healed all small injuries from whole year, so nothing can surprise us in hard winter season. While the weather is good we still have some [...]