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Eporedia Active Days 2012 Last week the annual Teva Race – now called 'Eporedia Active Days' – took place in Valchiusella and Ivrea/ITA.
The individual competition consisted of a downriver race down the shallow and rocky Chiusella River and a sprint and boatercross race on the slalom course in Ivrea with better water levels.
One of my two downriver runs was pretty bad – I was ending up on way to many stones - which placed me into 15th position after that stage. Honza Lasko (CZE) won, Michele Ramazza (ITA) came 2nd, Pavel Andrassy (SVK) 3rd. My teammate Jakobus also had some trouble with the shallow water in his first run, leaving him in 18th position.
Fortunately, we were able to catch up a bit in the sprint race where I got 6th (Sam Sutton/NZL was 1st there, Jakobus Stenglein 2nd and Honza Lasko 3rd) and in the boatercross, which was as much fun as almays. Finally I ended on the 8th rank, which is all right after my weak start in the downriver race. Jakobus was able to secure the 4th place after some great boatercross action. Overall, Honza Lasko won the event, Sam Sutton came 2nd and Filippo Brunetti (ITA) 3rd. Congratulations!
The team race couldn't have been any worse for the German team, consisting of Jakobus Stenglein, myself and Markus Hummel. Last year we were able to win this competitions, but this time we had no chance at all after a popped off spraycover at the very first rapid. That cost a lot of time! The English team took the title, leaving France and Italy on the 2nd and 3rd rank, respectively.
Overall we had a great time paddling in Italy - let's hope for some more water in the future, though! See you on the water.
Article: Lukas (Posted on the 20th Jun 2012 by jennyc) |
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