Canoe Sports

FISU First VP Oleg Matytsin MINSK – Today at the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus was held a meeting of representatives of the International Federation of Students Sport with a Vice-president of NOC BLR Nikolay Ananiev and belarusian organizers of the 6th World University Championship Canoe Sprint 2014. The organizing committee was […]

MINSK – The 6th World University championship Canoe Sprint 2014 was officially opened at the basement of the Republican Rowing Center in Zaslavl. The opening ceremony began with a sonorous parade of countries-participants. The mascot of this championship, a catfish Lyavon, was in the head of column. Sportsmen carrying their flags followed Lyavon with dignity. By official […]

KAZAN – Emotions and cold-blooded premeditation, teamwork and individual will to win – a true, uncompromised, but fair battle unfolded in the Rowing Centre’s water area. During three competition days up to 150 best kayakers and canoeists from 18 countries hit the water and used their paddles to take their boats to the finish line, […]

KAZAN – The competition programme of Day 3 at the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship, the final day of the championship, featured 16 medal events. The male kayakers competed in K1, K2 and K4 at 200m and 500m with the canoeists racing the same distances single (C1), in pairs (C2) and in fours (C4). […]

  KAZAN – Yesterday, August 31st, day 2 of the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship which is taking place at the Rowing Centre ended in Kazan. 8 medal events yesterday morning allowed Team Poland to take the top spot in the overall medal standings with host Russia settling for the fourth place in the […]

KAZAN – Yesterday, August 29th, the canoeists at the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship come into action. The competitions kicked off early in the morning at the Rowing Centre on Kaban Lake in Kazan. Polish athlete Tomasz OLSZEWSKI easily won the first men’s singles 1,000 m qualifying heat (3:36.3) thus earning the right to […]

KAZAN – The 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship opening ceremony took place at the Rowing Centre yesterday, August 28th. The ceremony was attended by Chairman of the 2012 FISU WUC Organising Committee and Tatarstan’s Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Tourism Rafis Burganov; 1st Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Youth […]

Kazan 2013 Ambassador Sergey Ulegin holds canoe sprint masterclass KAZAN – Sergey Ulegin, Merited Master of Sports, Beijing Olympic silver medallist, two-time world champion, five-time European champion and Ambassador for the 2013 Summer Universiade, conducted a masterclass for young rowers of Kazan’s Children and Youth Canoe Sprint School. During the masterclass Sergey Ulegin demonstrated boys […]