Video for the World Championship

Video of run 1 qualification, semis and finals are now available for viewing at http://vod.sportstec.tv/

World Championship Wrap up

The World Championships started on Wednesday with the LK1 and C2 qualifications. Chris and Scotty had a solid first run which they unfortunately couldn't improve on during their second run and finished in 32nd place, very impressive considering their less than ideal lead up to the competition.

Qualifications started poorly for me later that afternoon with a 50 second penalty on both qualifying runs, however I managed to put down a time which still enabled me to progress through to the top 20 and compete in the semi finals on Sunday.

In the semi finals I had a solid run with two main time losses. I finished 3^rd with fellow Aussie Jess Fox in 6^th position for the final. I saved my best run of the season for the final and finished in 2^nd place just of 6 seconds behind Jana Dukatova of Slovakia. Jess claimed the bronze a further 2 seconds behind. It was great to see the class of ladies C1 growing significantly from last year even despite being on very challenging water. We had 28 competitors entered from 19 countries, which equals the number of nations entered for the men’s C2 class.

Results can be found here

Congratulations to Lucien (making finals!) the Aussie LK1 paddlers who claimed the trophy for best nation in this class (all 3 making the final which is AMAZING!!) – it is the first time the trophy has ever gone outside Europe!

SILVER AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!

..... more to come

Final Countdown

There is less than 48 hours until the World Championship commence! The course is finally starting to look more like a competition site rather than a construction zone with bridges and podiums popping up overnight. For all the information and results at the World Championships see the Solka website. Also, check out this video montage created by Yann Le Pennec of me paddling down the first drop here at Tacen (luckily all the good bits only!)

Silly Siblings

Injury has struck the Guinea boys during their first training session here at the course in Tacen, Slovenia, where the Worlds will be held in approximately 2 weeks time.... although this time in Scotties exact words.... 'At least this time we weren't being stupid!' On their first run down the 3m+ drop at Tacen the boys managed to catch an edge and roll on the VERY shallow ramp. Chris managed to literally grate his hand along the concrete on the bottom and has spent the past week keeping it dry and free from infection. To describe it better to you Ros stated 'it looks like his hand went through a mincer!' Thankfully the construction workers have been in and smoothed out the culprit concrete. Chris and Scotty are now back on the water with a week before qualifications wearing a beautiful pink dishwashing glove to keep his hand dry!

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