Competitions

ECA’s Board of Directors held an online meeting to discuss the current situation across Europe and the competition calendar which is strongly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. All board members expressed a wish to organise at least some of the planned competitions, but later in the year if the circumstances will allow it and if the teams will be able to attend the Championships.

The trainings of professional athletes have been put on a hold in majority of the countries as they went into a lockdown over Coronairus fight. But some of paddlers in Europe and other non-European countries have now switched from their sports roles to the jobs they have been educated for. Many of them are doctors, paramedics, police officers, fire fighters etc. Among them are some of the Spanish top paddlers.