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With everyone waiting for winter to finally wave goodbye and to welcome spring and summer in Europe, Spanish Seville hosted a special winter championships where paddlers compete in 2000 and 5000 metres events. The 2000 metres time trial served as a qualifying event for the 5000 metres finals. In the record breaking edition of the championships with over 700 athletes from 114 clubs participating on the Guadalquivir River Maria Corbera, Begona Lazkano, Tono Campos and Javier Hernanz celebrated the Spanish Winter Champion titles. Elena Ayuso, Elena Naveiro, Juan Rodriguez Gonzalez, Juan Valle and Javier Reja celebrated wins in paracanoeing part of the competition.
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Russian Canoe Sprint team was getting ready for the season 2018 and the most important competitions of the year – 2018 ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe European Championships in Belgrade and 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Championships in Portugal – in the Olympic Training Centre in Old Kuban. Russian TV visited them during their preparations.
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Czech Canoe Union informed with great sorrow that Bedřich Dvořák passed away on Wednesday, 14th March. Bedřich Dvořák was a legend and one of the greatest personalities of Czech Canoeing. He was born in 1930 and was introduced to canoeing in 1940s in SK Smíchov, but later switched to KVS Praha. A club he never left. Dvořák was an Olympian representing Czechoslovakia at 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. He competed in K2 10000 metres event and finished seventh. He was a father of Libor Dvořák, 1980 Olympian, and grandfather of Filip Dvořák, 2012 European Champion.
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Ukrainian canoeing mourns Vyacheslav Sorokin, a legendary canoe sprint coach, who passed away in February at the age of 78. Vyacheslav Sorokin dedicated more than sixty years of his life to canoeing, starting as an athlete himself, but his biggest achievements were made by coaching talented athletes. Sorokin’s protégée was Yuriy Cheban, two-times Olympic champion, Olympic bronze medallist and winner of eleven medals at World and European Championships, with whom he started working in 2001.
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Belgrade will host the 2018 ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoeing European Championships between 8th and 10th June with around 1000 athletes from 36 countries expected to attend this sporting event. Serbian team will be strong and wishes to achieve great results in front of their home crowd. One of the things that might catapult their paddlers to European peak is the new and modern equipment Serbian federation received as a donation made by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.
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