International Canoe Federation

The May 2013 issue of the Canoe Marathon Newsletter 2013-03 is out.

 Contains information about: 

• Cali 2013 World Games
• Copenhagen World Championships
• Oklahoma 2013 World Cup
• Operation of Marathon Rule Changes
• ITO's Rule Update and ITO's For 2013

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The second event in the ICF Classic Series,  the Amsterdam Waterland Marathon, took place on 20^th April. A report on the race can be found at the link below:

There is also a facebook page at the link below with pictures of the race.

No paddlers have contested more than one race in the series as yet so the series is lead jointly by the winners of the first two races.

Men’s K1 – Joep VAN BAKEL from Netherlands and Grant VAN DER WALT from South Africa.

Women’s K1 - Emma ANDERSSON from Sweden and Robyn KIME from South Africa

C1 – Not contested in first two events

The ICF Marathon Rules published on the website have been corrected.  The time penalty for a false started has been corrected to 30 Seconds.

Final Series Results added to Results link in Scroll Bar

Men’s K1 - The men’s K1 has been won by Tomáš SLOVÁK  who was the winner of the Cesky and Adige Marathons. Jan LAENEN from Belgium finished 2^nd after winning the Devizes Westminster race and competing in a total of 5 of the events and 3rd place was taken by Renee OLSEN from Denmark who won the Dalsland Marathon.

Women’s K1 - The women’s K1 was won by Manuela STOEBERL from Germany who also won the last two events with Birgitt PONTO PPYDAN from Denmark 2^nd and Irelands Yvonne GLYNN 3^rd 

C1 - The C1 event has been the most contested event with 4 paddlers doing 3 of the series events. Antonin HALES of the Czech Republic was the winner with  Tomislav LEPAN  from Croatia  2^nd and David JIRKA of Czech Republic in 3^rd place.