Canoe Slalom and Wildwater Canoeing - Pau 2016

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Canoe Slalom is an exciting adrenaline fuelled sport, where the paddlers have to negotiate their way down a 300m white water rapid.

Paddlers race through a series of up to 25 gates, which are made up of red and green poles. The coloured poles determine the direction that the paddlers must past through gates. Paddlers have the challenge to race as fast as they can through the course of gates whilst battling with the challenging white water rapids of waves, stoppers and eddies to accomplish the quickest time. Paddlers are awarded time penalties of 2 seconds if they touch a gate and 50 seconds if they miss a gate altogether, which is added to their running time. The combined score of time and penalties determines the finish order.

The rule is simple : go as quickly as possible of a point upstream to another point downstream to the river. It is a race against the clock, being practised in white waters where it is essential to choose well its trajectory according to the currents and the natural obstacles which form rocks. The races take place mainly on natural courses, however with the emergence of sprint the competitions begin to get organized on the same places as canoe slalom.

There are two types of races :

• the classic competition with a duration from 12 to 25 min
• the sprint competition with a duration from 30 seconds to 2 min 30.

2016 ICF CANOE SLALOM WORLD CUP

• 3 - 5 Jun 2016, Ivrea, Italia
• 10 - 12 Jun 2016, La Seu d'Urgell, Spain
• 16 - 19 Jun 2016, Pau, France
• 2 - 4 Sep 2016, Prague, Czech Republic
• FINAL :  9 - 11 Sep 2016, Tacen Ljubjana, Slovenia

3 steps of 2016 ICF Wildwater Canoeing

• Round 1 and 2 : 9th to 11th of June 2016, Celje, Slovénie
• Final : 16th to 19th of June 2016, Pau, France