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The first ECA European Championships of the season 2023 will be the 2023 ECA Wildwater Canoeing European Championships in Skopje, North Macedonia, which will kick off with an opening ceremony on Tuesday, while the first competitions are scheduled for Wednesday.

Athletes from Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia and North Macedonia will compete for the European Champion titles over four competitions days, between Wednesday and Saturday in a picturesque Matka Canyon on the outskirts of Skopje.

The 2023 ECA Wildwater Canoeing European Championships will bring the individual classic race on Wednesday, team classic races on Thursday, sprint heats on Friday and sprint medal events (individual and team) on Saturday.

Skopje hosted the Senior ECA Wildwater Canoeing European Championships in 2017, they host the ECA Wildwater Canoeing European Cup regularly and the same venue was also the organiser of Senior and Junior/U23 Canoe Slalom European Championships in the past.  

This will be the 14th edition of the Senior ECA Wildwater Canoeing European Championships, the first senior European championships in this canoeing discipline was held in 1997 in La Plagne, France.

Previous championships of the Old Continent was held in 2021 in Sabero, Spain. At this championships French Maxence Barouh won in men's classic K1 event, Mathilde Serena Rosa from Italy in women's K1 classic, Czech Ondrej Rolenc in men's C1 classic race, Italian Cecilia Panato in women's C1 classic and French duo Stephane Santamaria - Quentin Dazeur in men's C2 classic. In sprint event Belgium's Maxime Richard claimed the European Champion title in men's K1, French Pauline Freslon in women's K1, her teammate Quentin Dazeur in men's C1, Elsa Gaubert (FRA) in women's C1 and Dazeur - Santamaria (FRA) in men's C2 for the double individual crown of the championships.

French paddlers will be again among the favourites for the medals, alongside Czech, Italian, Slovenian, German representatives. Some of the champions from the 2021 European Championships have concluded their sporting careers, and new champions will be crowned. Besides the best wildwater canoeing paddlers, a well-known name from canoe slalom, 2016 Rio Olympic medallist Matej Benuš from Slovakia is also on the start list.

WEBSITE: http://www.wweuro23-sk.mk

LIVE RESULTS: https://siwidata.com/canoe123/live?SessionKey=kosta.2023051700

LIVE STREAM (Friday's and Saturday’s races only): https://www.youtube.com/CanoeEurope