Before the senior, U23 and junior paddlers take the stage of the 2024 ECA Canoe Marathon European Championships in Poznan, Poland, Wednesday brought the demonstration paracanoe races and demonstration intellectual impairment races.
Four paracanoe demonstration events and four intellectual impairment demonstration races were on the programme on Wednesday as a part of the 2024 ECA Canoe Marathon European Championships in Poznan, Poland.
In men's VL3 event Austrian competitor Markus Swoboda produced the fastest time on a 11.80 kilometres long course on a Malta Lake, stopping the stopwatch at 1:06:31.96. He was more than half a minute faster than Robert Wydera from Poland, while Martin Dobrev from Austria finished third.
In men's VL2 event, which was also contested on a 11.80 kilometres long course, Patryk Dabrowski from Poland won ahead of British representative Shaun Cook. Moritz Berthold from Germany was the only one who took on a challenge of 8.20 kilometres long course in men's VL1 event. In women's KL3 event Katarzyna Kozikowska (POL) won ahead of Anne Bilobol (POL). They too competed on 8.20 kilometres long course.
The intellectual impairment demonstration races were 1.70 kilometres long. Kamil Wrzeszcz (POL), Tomasz Lepak (POL) and Kamil Licheniak (POL) took the top three positions in KT-1 men event, in women's KT-1 event Nona Gielis (BEL), Katarzyna Dalecka (POL) and Katarzyna Grzeca (POL) finished in the top three positions.
Tomasz Lepak - Dominik Pasinski (POL), Kamil Licheniak - Kajetan Pilarek (POL) and Thomas Dierckx - Jens Seyen (BEL) were the top three crews in men's KT-2 event, while Katarzyna Grzeca - Anastazja Kabus (POL), Katarzyna Dalecka - Alina Miszczuk (POL) and An Broos - Anabel Gielis (BEL) took the top positions in women's KT-2 event.
On Thursday, the 2024 ECA Canoe Marathon European Championships will bring women's and men's C1 junior events and shorts race heats and finals.
