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Ljubljana is ready for the 2017 ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships

Ljubljana is ready for the 2017 ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships 30.5.2017

30/05/2017 - Only one day is left until the 2017 ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships in Ljubljana – Tacen (SLO) which will start with an opening ceremony in the city centre of Slovenian capital in front of the town hall this Wednesday, 31st May 2017. The races will be organised in the suburb of Ljubljana on the Sava River from Thursday to Sunday. Athletes from 23 European countries will participate in this year’s edition of the ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships.


Top level slalomists from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Nederland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine and Slovenia will fight for the medals on the Sava River.
 
Venue, which is famous by its drop, already hosted Canoe Slalom European Championships in 2005, in addition to three World Championships and numerous World Cup events. Even though 12 years have passed since then, there are some familiar faces from the 2005 also entered in the competition this year. Among them Slovenian Peter Kauzer, who won his first medal at the senior level canoe slalom championships that year in front of his home crowd, Czech Štepanka Hilgertova, Austrian Corinna Kuhnle, British Fiona Pennie, German Alexander Grimm, Škantar cousins and Hochschorner brothers, Alexander Grimm, Michal Martikan, Elena Kaliska, Jana Dukatova from Slovakia and more.
 
A novelty of this year’s European Championships is a change in course construction. In the past editions of European Championships the gate setting remained the same during the entire competition, but this year some gates will be changed after the heats for the semi-final and final. The progression to the semifinal from the heats is 30 K1M; 20 C1M, C1W and K1W; 15 C2M. In the final the best 15 K1M boats from the semi-final will start, while in all the other categories top ten boats from the semi-final will start.
 
Despite the April’s floods that caused many concerns among the organisers of the event, the venue is ready for the beginning of the championships. “We are planning a big sporting event. Opening ceremony will take place on Wednesday at 20:00 in front of the Ljubljana Town Hall. The programme will be interesting with many performances. The races will start on Thursday in Tacen Kayak centre. The course is well prepared and is waiting for the best European paddlers. We dedicated Thursday and Friday to children from elementary schools and younger, we prepared a special programme for them. We expect the most visitors on Saturday and Sunday for the semi-finals and finals. The preparations of the championships are going well. There are some difficulties, but we are probably world champions in preparing the race with the smallest budget and the fewest number of people involved in the organisation. I think everything will be well prepared and will be on the highest level,” said Jakob Marušič, head of the organisation.
 

 

Official event website: www.slalomtacen.com

 

Live results: http://siwihome.azurewebsites.net/canoe123/eca?SessionKey=siwidata.1188

 

Livestreaming – Canoe Europe Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/canoeeurope

 

COMPETITION PROGRAMME

 

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

20:00 Opening Ceremony (in front of the Ljubljana Town Hall)

 

Thursday, 1 June 2017

14:00 – 16:25 C2M, C1W, K1M Heats (1st run)

16:40 – 18:15 C2M, C1W, K1M Heats (2nd run)

 

Friday, 2 June 2017

09:00 – 10:25 K1W, C1M Heats (1st run)

10:40 – 11:35 K1W, C1M Heats (2nd run)

13:05 – 14:00 Team events C2M, C1W Final

15:05 – 17:20 Team events K1M, K1W, C1M Final

 

Saturday, 3 June 2017

11:05 – 13:40 K1M, C1W, C2M Semifinal

15:05 – 16:50 K1M, C1W, C2M Final

 

Sunday, 4 June 2017

11:35 – 13:00 K1W, C1M Semfinal

15:05 – 16:05 K1W, C1M Final

 

Please note this is the provisional programme. The organiser holds the right to change it.

 

 

2016 ECA CANOE SLALOM EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDALLISTS

 

K1 men

1. Jiri Prskavec CZE

2. Vavrinec Hradilek CZE

3. Hannes Aigner GER

 

C1 men

1. Alexander Slafkovsky SVK

2. Michal Martikan SVK

3. Ander Elosegi ESP

 

K1 women

1. Melanie Pfeifer GER

2. Urša Kragelj SLO

3. Jana Dukatova SVK

 

C2 men

1. Tomaš Kučera – Jan Batik SVK

2. Luka Božič – Sašo Taljat SLO

3. David Schroeder – Nico Bettge GER

 

C1 women

1. Nuria Vilarrubla ESP

2. Katerina Hoškova CZE

3. Mallory Franklin GBR

 

3xK1 men

1. CZE: Jiri Prskavec/ Vavrinec Hradilek/ Vit Prindiš

2. FRA: Boris Neveu/ Sebastien Combot/ Etienne Daille

3. ESP: Samuel Hernanz/ Joan Crespo/ Unai Nabaskues

 

3xC1 men

1. SVK: Alexander Slafkovsky/ Matej Benuš/ Michal Martikan

2. POL: Grzegorz Hedwig/ Przemyslaw Plewa/ Igor Sztuba

3. GBR: David Florence/ Ryan Westley/ Adam Burgess

 

3xK1 women

1. GBR: Fiona Pennie/ Kimberley Woods/ Elizabeth Neave

2. GER: Melanie Pfeifer/ Jasmin Schornberg/ Lisa Fritsche

3. SVK: Elena Kaliska/ Jana Dukatova/ Kristina Nevarilova

 

3xC2 men

1. SVK: Hochschorner – Hochschorner/ Škantar – Škantar/ Kučera – Batik

2. POL: Szczepanski – Pochwala/ Brzezinski – Brzezinski/ Wiercioch – Majerczak

3. GER: Anton – Benzien/ Schroeder – Bettge/ Mueller – Mueller

 

3xC1 women

1. GBR: Mallory Franklin/ Kimberley Woods/ Eilidh Gibson

2. CZE: Katerina Hoškova/ Monika Jančova/ Martina Satkova

3. GER: Andrea Herzog/ Lena Stoecklin/ Birgit Ohmayer

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