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European nations have been the most successful in winning the first canoe sprint quotas for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The first quotas were available at this year’s World Championships in Szeged.
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British sprint kayaker Rachel Schofield (nee Cawthorn) has announced her retirement from competitive sport earlier this year at the age of 30. During her career she won five medals at senior European Championships and two medals at senior World Championships.
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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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