The European Canoe Association held a
board of directors meeting this weekend and discussed several important
matters, appointed new paracanoe technical delegate and awarded European
Championships in the upcoming seasons.
One of the most important matters to
discuss was the situation in Ukraine and the ECA board of directors decided to
follow the decisions and actions taken by the International Olympic Committee
and International Canoe Federation (more here).
Important part of the meeting were
also the upcoming ECA European Championships. ECA was forced to cancel the 2022
ECA Canoe Freestyle European Championships because no one applied for the
organisation of this competition. The organisation of the 2023 ECA Canoe Polo
European Championships was awarded to Brandenburg, Germany, and the 2023 ECA
Wildwater Canoeing European Championships will be held in Skopje, North
Macedonia.
The 2024 ECA Canoe Freestyle European
Championships was awarded to Spain, more precisely to Salt, Girona (subject to
technical appraisal). The 2025 ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe European
Championships will be held in Račice, Czech Republic, while Junior and U23
Canoe Sprint paddlers will head to Pitesti, Romania, in 2025. The 2025 ECA
Canoe Marathon European Championships will be organised in Crestuma, Portugal,
and the 2025 ECA Dragon Boat Nations and Clubs European Championships will be
held in Spresiano, Italy (subject to technical appraisal).
Following the departure of Anna Bjekefors,
ECA Paracanoe Technical delegate, six candidates applied for the vacant
position. The ECA Board of Directors decided to appoint Robert Weisz from
Hungary as the new ECA Paracanoe Technical delegate.
There were many candidacies for the
organisation of the next ECA congress. It was decided that the 2023 congress
will be held on Crete, Greece.
The Board of directors also confirmed
the proposed changes in the ECA Canoe Polo competition rules.
ECA delegation with Albert Woods OBE,
Miroslav Haviar, Branko Lovrić, Andrej Jelenc and ECA canoe sprint technical
delegate Jovana Stanojević visited Maribor prior to the ECA board meeting, and
inspected the venue of the 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival which will also
include canoe sprint. During their meeting they met with dr. Samo Peter Medved,
deputy mayor of Maribor who is in charge of the sport. The delegation was
satisfied with the location of the venue, since the canoe sprint will be the
only of the sports in the 2023 EYOF programme that will be held in the heart
and the most famous part of the city.
The next ECA Board of directors
meeting will be held in May 2022.
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