Canoe Sports

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 […]

KAZAN – Participants of the 5th World University Canoe Sprint Championship are arriving in Kazan. Over 150 athletes from Russia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Moldova, Australia, Poland, France, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Belarus, Hungary, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Uzbekistan and Latvia came to Kazan to compete at the 2012 WUC Canoe Sprint. Among the 24 Canoe Sprint […]

  POZNAN – The 4th edition of the World University Championship came to an end today, August 29th.  Thanks to Tomasz Sponder, the President of the OC and his assistant Joanna Zdunek who has done the job of 20 people, it was without any doubt a success. FISU CT Chair Zeljko Rajkovic could be very […]

Medal podium K2 Men 1,000m   POZNAN – A strong wind has cleaned a little bit Poznan’s sky for the second day of the 4th World University Canoe Sprint Championship. At the agenda of this second day, eight finals were disputed in the morning while the afternoon events were dedicated to heats and semi-finals. Although […]

POZNAN – The competitions have started today in Poznan at the Malta Lake with the first heats under a very gray sky but rain had the good taste to stop falling at the first official start.  No finals today and the first objective for the competitors was to reach immediately the finals without going through […]

  POZNAN – Competitions of the 4th World University Canoe Sprint Championship are starting tomorrow in Poznan but the venue of the wonderful Malta Lake was of course very busy. CIC member Fernando Parente was busy to check all the accreditations of the 23 countries that will attend the competitions. The delegations were training hard […]

  POZNAN – Just imagine a lake, a little bit more than two kilometers long, only dedicated for the practice of rowing and canoe-kayak. At a few hundred meters of the old city of Poznan, this venue, surrounded by trees and green grass offers to the 23 nations that will participate in the 4th WUC […]