It has been quite some time since the wildwater paddlers had the last opportunity to show their skills at one of the highest level international Wildwater competitions. The last championships in this canoeing discipline was the Wildwater Sprint Canoeing World Championships in 2019 that was held in La Seu d’Urgell and now the wildwater canoeing family returns to Spain for the 2021 ECA Wildwater Canoeing European Championships in Sabero.
The Covid-19 pandemic took a heavy
toll on Wildwater Canoeing paddlers. They were left without the 2020 World
Championships as well as World Cup races. The competition series resumed early
in July 2021 when Banja Luka hosted the World Cup races and the first
Championships after two years comes this week.
Sabero, a village in the province of
León, Castile and León, in north-western Spain, will host the 2021 ECA
Wildwater Canoeing European Championships between Wednesday and Saturday.
A little over 100 athletes from 15
European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech
Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Spain) are ready to fight for the medals
over four competition days.
On the start list we can find many
well-known names of this canoeing discipline such as Mathilde Rosa, Cecilia
Panato, Lise Vinet, Phenicia Dupras, Sabine Fuesser, Normen Weber, Stephane
Santamaria, Quentin Dazeur, Ondrej Rolenc, Paul Jean, Simon Oven, Marcel
Paufler, Finn Hartstein, Maxence Barouh, Felix Bouvet,Anže Urankar, Nejc
Žnidarič as well as new names. Among the newcomers who will aim high will be
young Slovenian kayaker Ana Šteblaj who excelled at this year’s World Cup races
in Banja Luka. Spain will be represented by sixteen athletes with Guillermo
Fidalgo de Leon probably aiming the highest positions at a home course.
The 2021 ECA Wildwater Canoeing
European Championships will start on Wednesday with individual classic race,
followed by classic team events on Thursday. On Friday we will follow
individual heats in wildwater sprint canoeing. Two heats runs will be held on
Friday. After the first run the fastest five competitors of each event will
advance directly to the final, while the others will fight for the remaining
spots in the second heats run. In the final 15 fastest kayakers (men and
women), the top 12 canoeists (men and women) and top 10 C2 crews (men’s and
women’s) from the heats will start. On Saturday the Championships will conclude
with individual sprint finals and team sprint finals.
COMPETITION PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
10:00 -13:00 Individual Classic Race
Thursday, 12 August 2021
10:00 -12:10 Team Classic Race
13:00 -14:00 Medal Ceremony
Friday, 13 August 2021
9:00 – 11:35 Individual sprint heats
– 1st run
16:00 – 17:55 Individual sprint heats
– 2nd run
Saturday, 14 August 2021
9:00 – 11:00 Individual sprint final
(15 boats WK1, 12 boats MC1, 15 boats MK1, 12 boats WC1, 10 boats MC2, 10 boats
WC2)
15:00 – 15:50 Team sprint final
16:30 -17:25 Medal Ceremony
Official website:
www.aguasbravassabero.com
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Twitter: @SaberoAguasBr
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