(VIDEO) Short video made during World Cup in Prague - Troja. You have a chance to watch interviesw with Corinnu Kuhnle (AUT), world champion Jana Dukatovou and Leanne Guinea (AUS). Videos were made for ICF by Sportscene - Media Productions & Advisory Services.

The first day of the World Cup, which was devoted to the qualification runs, have already finished and the course for semifinal and final race has been prepared. The semifinal and final runs of C1 and C2 categories will be hold tommorrow. The kayakers will show their best on Sunday. Although in the area of artificial course there was heavily raining in the morning, during the day the weather was steadily improving. May be because of improved weather a lot of visitors came to support their favorites. The water level of Vltava River was stabile and didn't endanger today's race.

The qualification of category K1W finished. The best time (87.78s) was reached by Austrian kayaker

Corinna Kuhnle in her first run. Thanks to the very good second run (89.13s) the second place belongs to Slovakian winner od World Cup 2009 Jana Dukátová. The third place is occupied by British  Laura Blakeman, who was the second after the first run ( 90.67s), but in the second run she missed one gate and the penalization of 50 s was added to her time. The fourth was the best Czech for today Irena Pavelková, who managed to go through all gates in 91.04s.

In the qualification the best time was reached by silver medails from Beijing and winner of last year World Cup series David Florence from Great Britain, who showed two great runs and with the time 84,65s goes to tommorrow's final. The second was Slowakian Alexander Slafkovský, who reached time 84,83s in his first run, but his second run was not as good as the first one, because he hit two gates ad the penalization of 4s was added to his reached time.The third was Frenchman Martin Thomas with the time 85,60s.

 

Corinna Kuhnle, the second is British Laura Blakeman (90.67) and the third is Czech Irena Pavelková (91.15). Štěpánka Hilgertová reached the time 91.64s. That means sixth place for her. The second run of this category is starting at 16.20. Only 30 paddlers from 59 racers can start in Sunday's semifinal and final. Only better time from both runs is counted to the final results. The detailed results of the first run is here.

The World Cup began with the qualiciation of category C1 women. The best time in the first run 105, 57s reached only sixteen years old Australian paddler Jaeesica Fox. The race has been continuing with the category C1 men and C2 men. The second run of these categories will be hold in the morning as well.

You can watch the running results: Live Results (the botton is in the left menu)

Because before the race the jury decided that the best twenty women will go to the semifinal, all sixteen brave women, who were today competing in this category, passed their race successfully and we can see them in the tommorrow's semifinal. The best Czech paddler for today was Kateřina Hošková, who was 4th and reached time107,05s.

 

 

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