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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.
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Norwegian kayaker Eivind Vold received a Pierre de Coubertin international award for fair play for his action after last year's Canoe Sprint World Championships, when he disqualified himself from the final of the men’s 5000 metres event in Montemor-o-Velho.
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After the Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Championships in Hungary and the Pre-Olympic test event in Japan, some of the best canoe sprinters travelled to China to take part in the special Super Cup competition which was held in Linyi.
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International Canoe Federation released canoe sprint world ranking for the season 2019 based on points from two World Cup races in Poznan (POL) and Duisburg (GER) as well as World Championships in Szeged (HUN). European paddlers are among the best.
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With less than a year to Tokyo 2020 Olympics athletes competed in Japan to test the Sea Forest Waterway venue which will host the most important sporting event of the upcoming year. Canoe Sprinters competed in ten events during the test event.
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