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Precision and speed on the wild water
In Slalom Racing, paddlers have to navigate the kayak or canoe through pairs of poles, called "gates", set up over the challenging rapids, waves, eddies and currents on a 300m stretch of rough water. If the paddler touches one of the poles, or misses a gate altogether, penalty times are added to the time achieved by the competitor on that run. They are single kayak (K) events, for men and women, and canoe events, also for men and women, in single (C1) and double boats (C2). There are also team events.
This discipline made its appearance in the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and then had to wait until 1992 to be reinstated to the Olympic programme.
One of the best canoe slalom paddlers in men’s C1 Benjamin Savšek had a rough beginning of the year 2019 after he suffered an injury that prevented him to see through his planned winter training.
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Wildwater course in Augsburg is considered to be one of the traditional venues of major international canoe slalom and wildwater canoeing competitions and paddlers coming from Augsburg are among the most successful sportsmen in the city. Hannes Aigner was named best sportsman of the year 2018 in Augsburg at a ceremony held in City Hall.
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Basel hosted international canoe slalom world ranking race with Swiss and German athletes taking majority of the medals. Among the best paddlers were medallists of Junior, U23 and senior canoe slalom European Championships in the past seasons.
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