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The great paddling team ballsport
Canoe Polo is a spectacular team game, which combines elements of water polo, basketball and canoeing! The game is played by two teams of five players each, trying to score goals with a waterpolo ball in a net suspended above the water at each end of a "playing pitch", which is often a swimming pool. The fast, exciting game is played in two halves of ten minutes each, and produces fast, robust action, where a wide range of skills, including the Eskimo roll, are regularly used.
The paddlers use short, manoeuvrable polo-boat kayaks, paddled with two-bladed paddles and wear helmets, facemasks and lifejackets for safety and protection.
Next canoeing European Championships of the season 2017 will start this week in France. 51 teams from 19 European countries will fight for the Canoe Polo European Champion titles in Saint-Omer, located approximately 70 kilometres from Lille. The tournament will start on Wednesday with an opening ceremony; the first matches are scheduled for Thursday. First medallists will be known on Saturday, when men and women in U21 categories will play in the semi-finals, 3rd place matches and gold medal games. On Sunday championships will conclude with final games in women’s and men’s senior categories.
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The first individual Junior and U23 European Champions of the season 2017 are known. Austrians, like in the heats, finished in the first position in two events, but it was Viktoria Wolffhardt and Mario Leitner who celebrated a gold medal in today’s kayak U23 finals. Laia Sorribes is Junior European Champion in women’s kayak event and Tine Kancler in men’s kayak. Vojtech Mružek and Albert Kašpar were the fastest in men’s C2 U23 final.
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