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Long distance endurance and strategy
While in Flatwater Racing events, paddlers race on a straight course, Marathon Racing involves paddling sleek racing craft over long distances, on either the flatwater of lakes, and dams, or the flowing water of a river. Traditional Marathon Racing competitions, like ICF World Cup and World Championships, involve a fixed flatwater course with regular portages, where the paddler must carry the canoe or kayak. Each race lasts approximately 3 hours.
Many popular marathons are raced down sections of river, where the paddler must negociate the currents, rapids or weirs, or else portage around these obstacles. Some of these events attract over 2000 athletes each year and are often run inseveral stages over several days.
The 2024 ECA Canoe Marathon European Championships in Poznan, Poland, came to an end with the last four medal events of this competition week. The final European Champion titles went to the hands of athletes from Spain, Denmark, Poland and Portugal.
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Saturday's programme at the 2024 ECA Canoe Marathon European Championships in Poznan was dedicated to senior individual events and two junior events. Favourites of senior events Babak, Campos, Kiszli and Pedersen did it again and enriched their medals collection with another European Champion titles.
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Pernille Hostrup and Philip Knudsen won gold medals for Denmark and Eryk Wilga and Krystian Kubica - Alex Wilga won two gold medals for Poland in Friday's competition of the 2024 ECA Canoe Marathon European Championships in Poznan, Poland.
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