The view fro the camp siteThe competition was held on the Palt wave on the Trollforsarna (the troll rapids) section of the Pite River. A large volume river with a beautiful river run and play spot.
Chilling at the bottom of the slideThe wave was world class, a sweet braking wave which allowed you to throw every wave and some times hole move in the book. Beautiful warm weather and warm water made for an awesome destination for the competition. The 24 hour sunlight also meant you could practise all through the night if you wanted, not my cup of tea but the option was there.
Matz flipping it upThe Trollforsarna Whitewater Challenged consisted of 3 competitions, a boater cross, a team race and then the freestyle. Me and Flick only competed in the freestyle as we could only bring our playboats on the plane. It all kicked of on the Thursday with the boater cross, then the Friday saw the Team race and the freestyle was held on the Saturday finishing around 10:00 at night.
Peace FlickThe competition was going well for me coming 3rd in the prelims then an unlucky flush during the semi final placed me in 7th. Flick came 2nd in the juniors seeing some nice rides.
All in all the event went very well and I hope they run it again next year, it’s a beautiful kayaking destination and defiantly somewhere to explore.
Me on the Palt waveThe results for the freestyle look like this.
K1 Men
1. Peter Csonka Slovakia
2. Mikael Lantto Finland
3. Tuomas Kuronen Finland
4. Jan Spindler Czech Republic
5. Miika Kuronen Finland
K1 Women
1. Deborah Pinniger Great Britain
2. Nina Halasova Slovakia
3. Ingrid Schlott Germany
4. Maria Lindgren Sweden
5. Valerie Bertrand Norway
K1 Junior men
1. Jiri Langer Czech Republic
2. Mikael Ekström Sweden
3. Simon Ingelsten Sweden
4. Isak Öhrström Sweden
5. Thomas Bankes Great Britain
K1 Junior women
1. Hana Vackova Czech Republic
2. Flic Meares Great Britain
Check out this small film of the palt wave
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