TV Broadcasts from the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup
Videoclips on Dartfish.tv
Interview with Richard Fox, Jiří Rohan, Štěpánka Hilgertová and Luboš Hilgert
Inteview with Richard Fox is in English.
Dukátová winning the Semi-finals, Hilgertová passed tightly to the Finals
Finals will include two Czech athletes
Canadian John Hastings became the winner of the Semi-finals with the time 94:34 followed by the winner of the Heats, German athlete Alexander Grimm who was only four hundreds of second slower. The best time was performed by last – year´s winner of the World Cup Ranking, Peter Kauzer from Slovenia (94.57). The start list of the Finals includes also Daniele Molmenti from Italia and the Olympic winner from Athens, representative of Greece Benoit Peschier as well as the top British athlete Campbell Walsh.
Quite surprising has been the result of Luboš Hilgert 94.68, that brought him 4th position and participation in the Finals. From the 8th position, Vavřinec Hradílek passed to the Finals. Vít Přindiš, the 3rd Czech representative participating in the Semi-finals, unfortunately made a mistake on the second gate and finished on the 22nd position.
Italian athlete Molmenti was far ahead of the others Hilgert took the silver medal
Unfortunate “spraydeck mistake” of Dukátová, victory goes to Schornberg
Incredible mistake caused by loose spraydeck took the success away from the favourite Jana Dukátová, the clear winner of the Semi-finals. German athlete Jasmin Schornbergová with time 109.05 took the lead, leaving the second place for Fiona Pennie (109.16) from UK with just minimum time difference. Štěpánka Hilgertová (109.79) won the bronze medal after the very dramatic race full of mistakes of the other competitors. Irena Pavelková finished on 5th position. Jana Dukátová got to the finish line strongly supported by audience despite the substantial amount of water that got into her boat making it hard to coordinate as it was almost sinking.
Videos on participants in Prague - Troja
Live on Czech TV
Hochschorners winning the C2 semi-final
Hochschorner brothers from Slovakia have confirmed their status of favourites reaching the 105.63 time in the semi-final race. Second place has been taken by Czechs Volf and Štěpánek with time difference of three second (108.75), strongly supported by Czech audience. They have improved their position substantially as they finished on the eighteenth position in the Heats. Third best result has been achieved by Germans Becker-Henze with time 109.95 followed by Brits Baillie-Stott (110.46). For the complete results please use the following link .