Competitions

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The season 2019 was supposed to be the most important so far for Norwegian canoe sprinter Amund Vold (he won two medals at the 2019 ECA Junior and U23 European Championships in Račice and gold medal at World Cup in Poznan in men’s K1 5000 metres event as well as two medals at Canoe Marathon World Cup in Baerum) who was expected to start at World Championships in Szeged and fight for the Olympic spots for Tokyo 2020. Instead of this fight he had to undertake a completely different one. He was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and started tough cancer treatment.

Czech Republic hosted the 17^th International Česky Krumlov River Marathon which attracted paddlers from 24 countries, who took on the challenge of one of three lengths of a course, with main being the 37 kilometres long descent from Vyšši Brod. The fastest boat of this year’s edition was K2 crew Jakub Zavrel – Petr Mojžišek from Czech Republic.

Seven nations took part in this year’s canoe slalom edition of Olympic Hopes which was held this weekend in Roudnice nad Labem in Czech Republic. On the last day young competitors from home nation won nineteen medals.

After the canoe sprint Olympic Hopes regatta which was held last month in Bratislava, it is now time for young canoe slalom paddlers to compete at their Olympic Hopes races. This weekend they are competing in this sporting event held in Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic. Young competitors from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia,Poland, Croatia, Latvia and Lithuania are competing this weekend.