First final race at the ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships 2018 in Prague brought two medals for domestic Czech teams in C2M category. Despite 2 seconds of penalties Jonáš Kašpar and Marek Šindler are Europe Champions, bronze medal goes to Ondřej Karlovský and Jakub Jáně. Robert Behling and Thomas Becker from Germany reached second place, less than one second behind winners.

Czech paddlers have a big medal chance in the first final day. Four boats in categories C2 and K1M managed to qualify into finals. The additional penalty eliminated Tereza Fišerová from final in category C1, so the Czech Republic has no representation in this category.

The Friday qualifications are over at the ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships 2018. Here are the flash quotes.

K1: Ricarda Funk: “It was quite tough; the course is very tricky, especially in the middle part. I think for the semifinals I need to attack the course a little more. Of course I want to qualify into finals.”

Here, we bring the quotes from the morning qualifications of the ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships in Prague.

C2: Ondřej Karlovský: „To be honest, I’m not satisfied very much with the performance. Kuba may agree with me. It didn’t slide so smooth on the water, it cost us a lot of power but finally we have qualified and that’s important.” Jakub Jáně: “First gates weren’t good and we couldn’t get into that. We need to deal with that.”

After the opening ceremony at Hybernia Theatre, the reception of the expeditions and the biggest favourites of the European Championships took place at the Town Hall of Prague.

Where can you find the live results, live stream, schedule and other useful information about the ECA Canoe Slalom European Championships in Prague 2018? We are posting a few useful links.

Live results: https://siwidata.com/canoelive/#/live/eca/1373
Schedule: http://www.slalomtroja.cz/en/teams/race-schedule
LIVE stream: https://www.youtube.com/CanoeEurope
website: http://www.slalomtroja.cz/en/

The biggest Czech stars of the upcoming European Championships will fight for medals in category K1. Two guaranteed spots have Ondřej Tunka and Vít Přindiš, the last spot took triple European champion and Olympic medallist Jiří Prskavec. Who will win in Troja? Will the European champion be from the Czech Republic at all? We will find the answers by the end of this weekend.

European Championship can be opened by various ways. The opening ceremony of the European Canoe Slalom Championships in Prague surely belongs to the most successful in history. It was situated in the centre of the capital city, in Hybernia Theatre. The long-lasting applause at the end of the hourly show was the best proof of the fact that the screenwriters and participants of the performance did an amazing job.

Last year in Pau, he won unexpectedly the world champion title. Just this fact makes Ondrej Tunka one of the strongest adepts for the European gold in Prague this weekend.

Tuesday afternoon before the championships in Prague was traditionally dedicated to CEZ Prague Riverside Cross 2018. On Náplavka, we could have seen not only the athletes starting at the ECA European Championships but also Czech celebrities. The best of the bests was the cross country skier Lukáš Bauer.
The competition in this special event – biathlon joined together with canoe slalom was again under auspices of silver Olympic kayaker Vavřinec Hradilek.