Slalom Canoeing ICF Junior & Under 23 World Championships 2018

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Men's Junior Team K1
Final Results

 

France
PAJAUD Julien

DELAHAYE Vincent

DELASSUS Anatole

93.30

 

Czech Republic
ZIMA Tomas

KREJCI Jakub

BARTA Jan

93.59

 

Germany
BREMER Tim

DIETZ Joshua

DILLI Maximilian
95.63

 

Full Finals Results HERE

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Already 9 countries in the medal table after the first day (sadly only European countries won medals today) reserved to the thrilling and awesome Team events (really shame that IOC never introduced this to the Olympics..) France leading the tally with 3 golds + 1 silver and 1 bronze ahead of the Czechs with 2 golds 3 silvers and one bronze, 3rd in the medal standing is Germany with 1 gold and 1 bronze.

 

From SVK view another disappointing performances especially in the M U23 K1, how such team with Grigar and Málek can not win a medal is for me just beyond understanding. total failure, I have no words, same for the U23 M C1 and both womens C1 teams where we clearly expected to medal,

so all in all only 1 medal from the team events (W U23 K1 gold) is a failure.

 

From now the tournament continue with the individual events, Tomorrow the heats of all U23 events (M C1 and W K1 in the morning and W C1 + M K1 during the afternoon session)

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This morning we had the heats of the U23 M C1 and W K1

 

here the qualified for the semifinals

 

U23 M C1

directly from Heat 1 - and

from Repechage Heat 2 - and

 

what a disastrous flop from our guys Gurecka and Dodok both not even able to make it to the semifinals...at least Marko Mirgorodský confirming his ambitions and medal contender status qualifying easily as winner of heat 1

 

U23 W K1

directly from Heat 1 - and

and from Repechage Heat 2 - and

 

all 3 entries qualified from Heat 1, more or less without noticeable troubles, good sign to see Simona Maceková a C1 specialist doing so good and is able to make the semis also in her secondary event

 

 

in some 50 minutes will start the afternoon session with full qualifiers for the U 23 W C1 and M K1 classes

 

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Not too much progress from outside Europe.

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8 minutes ago, Quasit said:

Not too much progress from outside Europe.

 

yes, only 4 in the M C1 U23 is a very low number, the positive thing there much more chances in the womens categories and even strong medal chances

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in the M U23 K1 start list there Jakub Stanovský (SVK) Martin Stanovský (KAZ) cousins of Samuel Stanovský (LAT) lol + Samuel´s sister Soňa Stanovská competing for SVK in C1 and K1 juniors 

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4 missed gates in a row

 

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here the qualified for the semifinals of the U23 M K1 and W C1

 

U23 W C1

directly from Heat 1 - and

from Repechage Heat 2 - and

 

Like the W U23 K1 also in the W U23 C1 all our girls advance to the semifinals already from 1st heat without big problems

 

U23 M K1

directly from Heat 1 - and

from Repechage Heat 2 - and

 

Really worrying shape of Jakub Grigar this year, he didn´t made a single finals in the 3 world cup stages and at the Europeans last month, this U23 Worlds were expected to be a small restart for his confidence, but his perf in the 1st heat wasn´t really impressive at all. Jakub Stanovský again poor effort, needed Heat 2 to qualify. Incredible, that from the 3 guys here the most impressive was Andrej Málek who lost against both Grigar and Stanovský in the national trials for this years seniors NT

 

Tomorrow the Championships continue with the same qualification program as today but this time in the Juniors categories. M C1 + W K1 in the morning and W C1 + M K1 afternoon.

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Mornings session Recap of the qualified for the semifinals of the Juniors M C1 and W K1

 

JUNIORS M C1

directly from Heat 1 -   and

from Repechage Heat 2 - and

 

All 3 entries qualified, but Fedor Červenka really with huge luck as the very last qualified from 2nd heat, anyway a SVK medal in this event would be a huge shock

 

JUNIORS W K1

directly from Heat 1 - and

from Repechage Heat 2 - and  

 

Soňa Stanovská one of our medal contenders here, started very well, as she won the heat 1 by 3 and half seconds, really impressive considering we are speaking about K1, which is usually the closest event

 

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Mexican girl in the Junior K-1 got above 500 penalties in both of her runs