Team Canada News

Congratulations to all those who competed in CORA time trials.

Results have been posted online under Race Results.   You will be contacted before October 20th by the Sprint Council group to accept your position on an National crew, as well as acceptance of your V1 Solo seat if qualified.  Commitment to the team is necessary to provide paddlers with security to purchase flight and accommodations

Once the top crews have been determined, further pre-determined crews can be submitted to fill our canoe allotment of 6 canoes per category.

FINAL NOTE:   The selection process designed by the Sprint Council  (Leanne Stanley, Lynda Roberts & John Roberts) is located online under the CORA website > Resources > CORA Resources.   Please take some time to read over and understand the new racing format to be used in 2016.

On behalf of the IVF, the Australian Outrigger Canoe Racing Association are hosting the 2016 IVF Va’a World Elite & Club Sprint Championships at Lake Kawana on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. We invite you to join us!

The Va’a World Sprints will be the largest ever and we encourage all IVF member paddlers to grasp the opportunity to be part of this world class multi-national event.  Team Canada will be selected after the October time trials to participate from May 5th to May 15th 2016.  Register you Intent to Compete now!

Additional information is available online at Va’a World Sprints ( vaaworldsprints.com )

CORA Report – by Donna Harrison & Lynda Roberts
2016 IVF World Va’a Sprint Championships
Sunshine Coast, Australia May 8-15, 2016

Team Canada

Congratulations to all Team Canada paddlers, you did us proud with your awesome attitude and effort. Australia put on a great event and we’re pretty sure the paddlers made the most of their travelling adventures.
Canada’s Team included 83 paddlers age 15 to 80! The majority of paddlers were over 60, which is largely due to cost and time needed to travel to Australia. The location for 2018 is Tahiti, but hopefully 2020 will be voted for Hawaii so we can increase our total number of paddlers, specifically the younger age categories and juniors.

Medals Count

Canada won 5 medals. Our first Para-Canoe Gold V1 (250m) from Alison Downie of Calgary. Two V1 (500m) medals for our Master 70+. John Roberts, Gold and Stan Machacek with Bronze. Masters 70+ V6 (500m) Bronze (Brian Neil, John Roberts, Rick Walkey, Stan Machacek, Ole Christiansen and Otto Erdelsky) and Master 60+ V12 Bronze with Alex Vandenham, Pat McLellan, Martin Jalkotzy, Roman Matieschyn, Bob Stewart, Darrel Smith, Stan Machacek, Jim Senior, Doug Kazakoff, Randy Brooks, Dean Dogherty and John Roberts.

Club Crews vs Elite

Going forward, CORA will review the new format of Elite and Club crews and work towards the promotion of an Elite Crew and Club crews.
Although a time trial is required for V1 and Elite, there may be better ways to time trial for Club crews in regional areas to allow for more training as a crew.

Stay tuned for information regarding World Sprints 2018, Tahiti, June 28-July 5th. Time trials October 2017, dates tbc.