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!