Canoe Sports

  Former world and European champion pentathlete and now Deputy State Secretary for Sport of the Hungarian Government Péter Sárfalvi visited the FISU World University Canoe Sprint Championship in Szolnok on Friday.   According to the sports leader, the event in Hungary is a high-standard international competition and – speaking from his own experience – […]

    MONTEMOR-O-VELHO – The Polish athletes won most of the races during the last day of the 7th World University Canoe Sprint Championship and collected a total of 21 medals. On the first day of competition, the Polish team had already shown its aim for Gold, and they entered the final day with the […]

    MONTEMOR-O-VELHO – The second day of competition was a really good one for the Polish athletes. During the morning, seven finals were going to decide the champions in K1 1000, K2 1000, C1 1000, C2 1000, K4 1000 and C4 1000 (all men) and C2 200 (women), and Poland took the podium’s first […]

    MONTEMOR-O-VELHO – The first day was decisive to find the first finalists of the 7th World University Canoe Spring Championship. Poland is the biggest delegation in this championship, with 26 athletes, and one of the favorites to win several medals. Portugal and Germany also dominated the competition, although the races were very hard-fought. Janne […]

  MONTEMOR-O-VELHO – Around 160 athletes represented their countries in the Opening Ceremony of the 7th World University Canoe Sprint Championship. 18 countries took the stage and listened to the representatives of the organization entities. The President of the Portuguese University Sports Federation (FADU), Mr. Daniel Monteiro, was the first one on stage and highlighted […]

    MINSK – The 6th World University Canoe Sprint Championship in Belarus came to an end. The host country’s team performed best, having won 20 medals (13 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 6 bronze medals). The second place in the medal tally went to Poland with a total number of 19 medals (6 […]

MINSK – The 6th World University Canoe Sprint Championship became successful not only for the host country Belarus (Zaslavl) but also for its neighbors from Poland. By the results of the first competition day Poland and Belarus won 6 medals, but Polish sportsmen are the leaders by the medals’ worthiness. Aleh Yurenia (Belarus) took the […]