Paracanoe will also be represented at
the Munich 2022 European Championships at the Olympic Regatta Course in
Oberschleißheim just North of Munich. Nine reigning World Champions, some of
them also the defending European Champions will fight for another success.
Over the four competition days at the
Munich 2022 European Championships twelve sets of medals will be awarded to the
best in paracanoe. The competition will be fierce with eight 2021 Paracanoe
European Champions on the startline and nine reigning World Champions, who got
their gold medals just ten days ago at World Championships in Canada.
Great Britain will undoubtedly be the
first favourite to top the medals table in paracanoe at the end of the European
Championships in Munich. They concluded the recent World Championships with a
total of ten medals, five of them gold, four silver and a bronze. All British
World Champions are in Munich: Charlotte Henshaw who was crowned World Champion
in two events in Canada, Emma Wiggs, Laura Sugar and Jack Eyers.
The biggest Hungarian hope is
19-year-old Peter Kiss, the reigning World and European Champion in KL1. The
youngster has an impeccable medal record - only gold medals at Olympic Games,
World and European Championships. He was the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Champion,
World Champion in 2019, 2021 and 2022 and European Champion in 2019 and 2021.
The races in 2020 were cancelled due to Covid-19.
Germany will be represented by their
standard paracanoe team, including the winners from previous European
Championships and this year's World Championships Lillemor Koeper, Felicia
Laberer and Anja Adler, as well as Edina Mueller, the Tokyo 2020 gold medallist
and 2016 silver medallist.
Another strong paracanoe athletes
come from Ukraine, and Mykola Syniuk and Maryna Mazhoula are undoubtedly the
first favourites for the European Champion titles in their respective events.
Both are 2021 European and 2022 World Champions.
Portugal's Norberto Mourao and
Ireland's Patrick O'Leary, the 2021 European Champions, are also in Germany and
will try to repeat the success from European Championships in Poznan, and Juan
Valle from Spain, who was recently crowned World Champion, will surely try to
win the European crown as well.
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