The Junior Women’s C2 500 races were equally as spectacular as the C1 200 at the 2014 ICF Junior & U23 Canoe Sprint World Championships. Belarus’ Daryna Kastsiuchenka and her expert steerswoman Kamila Bobr set the tone in the heats by winning in a new world record (for any age category) of 1:58.735. In the Final, the […]

Junior women canoeists were SMOKIN’ at the 2014 ICF Junior & U23 Canoe Sprint World Championships, in Szeged, Hungary. The Americas dominated the podium with Gold and Silver. Twelve times these young women went under :50. Three times between :47-:48. The fastest Junior competition to date. Newly crowned Junior World Champion Katie Vincent(CAN) had the fastest time […]

The U23 Women’s Canoe races were even faster than the Juniors at the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint Jr & U23 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary. In the C1 200, U23 Women went under 50 seconds eighteen times and between 47-48 seconds eight times between the heats and finals. This was by far the fastest field ever […]

The final race for women’s canoe at the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint Jr & U23 World Championships was the U23 C2 500. Defending Champions Zsanett Lakatos and Kincso Takács (HUN) faced stiff competition, but on their home course with the best and loudest fans in the world, they were not to be denied. Lakatos and Takács jumped […]

The 2014 ECA Canoe Slalom Junior & U23 European Championships, which took place 3-6 July, 2014 in Skopje, Macedonia, proved to be another exciting and hotly contested event for women’s canoe. Congratulations to Great Britain’s Mallory Franklin - Women’s C1 U23 European Champion! Fastest run of the day and even a two second penalty was enough to secure […]

How does it feel to be the first, the best, the only? To achieve something, when it has been nearly tangible for years, while pouring out all strength, just trying to beat out the rolling seconds of clock? Sweating while the blade rips through the water and the bow laps the surface of each rolling […]

Mallory Franklin (GBR) pleased the crowd in Lee Valley by winning the first Gold Medal for Great Britain in C1 Women after a fantastic final run. She crushed her final run with no penalties and cruised to a resounding victory in this first World Cup of the 2014 season. And in front of her home crowd! […]

¡Felicidades y Parabéns Women’s C1 200 competitors in the 2014 South American Games. This was the first time women’s canoe was included in the South American Games. 5 countries participated with new countries Peru and Argentina on the line. Ecuador’s Anggie Avegno wins the Gold by a hair over Chile’s Nancy Millan Valdés. Brazil’s Valdenice […]

See the nearly 1300 comments which were included in our petition for Olympic inclusion. 2014 Feb changeorg comments Almost 6800 signatures. https://www.change.org/petitions/lift-the-ban-on-women-s-canoeing-at-the-olympics-for-rio-2016 We so appreciate everyone’s support!

The Royal Canoe Club reports that in November 2013 the Intl Canoe Federation voted to drop the men’s sprint K2 (2 person kayak) & men’s slalom C2 (2 person canoe) events to make room for women’s sprint & slalom C1 (singles canoe) events for Tokyo 2020. The ICF never publicly announced this, though they did […]