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ICF President Jose Perurena Lopez: we are ready to give Moscow the right to hold international kayak and canoe rowing event of the highest level

Today, on August, 1, at the Moscow rowing channel “Krylatskoe” the second competition day of the World Junior Sprint Canoe and Kayak Championships was over. The president of the International canoe federation Jose Perurena Lopez a day before the end of the competition declared to the special correspondent of the Agency of sport information “All Sport” that the World championships in Moscow have been a success.

“The Olympic rowing channel in Krylatskoe, according to may athletes and officials, is one of the best channels in the world”, Jos Perurena Lopez said. “May be it needs some renovation in the infrastructure but the channel itself and the organization are just perfect. That is why we are ready to give Moscow the right to hold competitions of the highest international level. We haven’t got any concrete suggestions yet though, and the World Champs are assigned till 2012. But in 2012 Moscow will first time in history host the World Cup stage. Yesterday we discussed it with the president of the Russian canoe and kayak federation Yevgeny Arkhipov, and there is really a chance that Moscow will bid for the World Champs-2013 or 2014. I can only hope that Moscow will host the events of such a scale. Russia is a huge country, rich with talents, you have perfect crowd on the stands, perfect channel – that is you have got everything needed for success!”

Maxim Opalev: junior results in the world rowing are progressing very fast

Today, on August, 1, in Moscow first finals of the World Junior Kayak and Canoe Championships took place. Olympic champion Maxim Opalev, who last year won at the Beijing Olympics, this time was a spectator – in a tie and on the stands. Maxim Opalve shared his impressions with the special correspondent of the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“For Russia to host a junior World Champs in kayak and canoe is very important”, Maxim Opalev said. “Recently junior results in the world rowing are progressing very fast, that’s why it’s specially pleasant that all these young athletes came to Moscow. I am perfectly aware that there are no weak athletes at the World champs, even in the juniors. I took part in the World junior champs twice – in 1995 and 1997. In 1995 I was two years younger than most of my competitors, but won two gold medals – in canoe-2 1000 m and canoe-4 500 m. In 1997, in Lahti I won two gold medals in canoe single in 500 and 1000 m. I am pleased to see that some strong canoeists appear now. We have in Russia a strong guy Alexei Korovashkov who won three medals at the recent European junior champs. I am keeping my fingers crossed for him”.

At the World junior kayak and canoe championships in Moscow the Olympic licenses for the Youth Games-2010 in Singapore will be on stake

At the World junior kayak and canoe championships, that will be held on 30 July – 2 August on the rowing channel in Krylatckoe, Moscow, the licenses for the first Youth Olympic Games-2010 in Singapore will be on stake. The head coach of the Russian youth team Yevgeny Kartashov analyzed for the Agency of sport information “All Sport” Russian chances to get the full quota.

“At the first ever Youth Olympic Games-2010 in Singapore kayak and canoe will be represented with only three events – men and women single kayak and men single canoe, - Yevgeny Kartashov said. – In other words, this means the maximum quota for a team can be three athletes 1993-1994 years of birth. The distance will also be non-standard for us, ultra short – 320 m. I think this had been done to make the events more attractive for the TV and spectators. Principally with the new leadership our sport declared the politics towards making it more attractive and easy to watch. The decision to cut the number of disciplines at the Youth Olympic Games is from the same row. Concerning Olympic licenses, they will be awarded basing on the results on 500 m from the World junior championships in Moscow. To get the license, in the men’s canoe one should be among the first five Europeans, in the men’s kayak – among the best eight, in the women’s kayak – among the best 11 European athletes”.

Yevgeny Kartashov also estimated the chances of the Russian team to win all three licenses. “In principle, we have quite good chances to win all three licenses. I am modest now just not to put the evil eye on it. For example, in canoe the reigning triple European junior champion Alexey Korovashkov will compete. In the men’s kayak Sergey Duz will compete. At the recent European junior championships he was fourth on 500 m and won the gold in the kayak-4. Traditionally the most complicated situation is in the women’s kayak, but even here I hope everything will be all right. Anzhelika Selenova was 6th at the European junior championships. In Moscow even such a result will be enough to qualify”.

The team of Japan was the first to arrive to the World junior kayak and canoe championships in Moscow

On 22 July, the team of Japan first out of all the participants arrived to Moscow to take part in the World junior kayak and canoe championships in 30 July – 2 August. The Japanese team has already had one training on the rowing channel. Today also arrived the teams of Italy and the USA. The general secretary of the All-Russian canoe and kayak federation, executive board member of the European association and International kayak and canoe federation Irina Sirayeva told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“There is no wonder that the teams of Italy, Japan and the USA were the first to arrive to Moscow, 0 Irina Sirayeva noted. – These specific countries were present at the test event before the World Champs that took place in Krylatckoe last year. They saw everything, understood how good it was here and decided to come well before the championships (smiling). Moreover, they booked the rooms in the hotel near the rowing channel in November, so now they have no transportation problems at all. The Japanese team includes 20 people, the teams of Italy and the USA are slightly bigger. In the next few days we are waiting for other delegations. But most of them will arrive next week. Still we are not afraid of this – everything is already thought over and works perfect. All together there will be slightly fewer countries on the World championships than we announced before – around 57 – 59. Some small countries still don’t know whether they will get financial support to travel to Moscow. Any case, the Moscow World junior championships will for sure be the most representative in history. Never before more than 50 countries arrived to the competition”.

27 athletes will represent Russia at the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships in Moscow

At the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships, which will be held on July, 31 - August, 2 in the rowing channel in Krylatskoe in Moscow, 27 athletes will represent Russia. The head coach of the Russian junior team Eugeny Kartashov told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“We started the preparation to the Junior Canoe and Kayak championships in Moscow in October last year, - Eugeny Kartashov noticed. - Selection to the team consisted of three stages, and for the moment everything is over. It was the Russian championships in November, the all-Russian competitions in April and the Russian championships in May. All these competitions were held in Krasnodar. According to the results we selected 27 athletes. 25 from these athletes will go to Poznan (Poland) on July, 13, for participating in the European Junior championships. We will come back from Poland on July, 20 and will start preparation for the Moscow World championships. For this we will work about a week in the rowing channel in Krylatskoe. In the junior teams they don’t usually talk about their plans for medals. I can say so: for the last years we didn’t drop out of the three leaders in the total medal table. In Moscow we, as minimum, want to achieve this goal”.

Eugeny Kartashov also told us about the staff of the Russian junior team. “The staff of the team in comparison with the previous year was updated for about 80 %. Usually we put three years for preparation of the junior team: the first year - involving, the second year - developing, the third year - productive. Only Ilya Pervukhin and Aleksey Korovashkov are on the third year of preparation, which are the two-time European champions among juniors of the last year in canoe-double. And at the selective Russian championships-2008 before the Olympic Games they lost only to famous Ulegin and Kostoglod, who won medals later in Beijing. So you should watch more careful after these boys”, - Eugeny Kartashov advised.

Yury Luzhkov will open the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships in Moscow

The Major of Moscow Yury Luzhkov on July, 30, will take part in the opening ceremony of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championship in the rowing channel “Krylatskoe” in Moscow. The General Secretary of the Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation Irina Sirayeva told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

Yury Luzhkov is the head the organizing committee of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championship in the rowing channel “Krylatskoe” in Moscow, - Irina Siraeva reminded. - And, certainly, we invited him to participate in the solemn opening ceremony on July, 30. The president of the International Canoe and Kayak federation (ICF), the Spanish Mr Jos'e Perurena Lopez, the ICF first vice-president, the member of jury of the competitions Istvan Vaskuti from Hungary, the president of the European Canoe and Kayak Association Albert Woods from England, and other leaders of the World Canoe and Kayak. According to the regulations, the opening ceremony will last about one hour, with all obligatory elements - rising of the flags of the participants, welcome speeches, and then, certainly, the entertainment program. And the words: “I declare the World championships opened!” will announce, according to the traditions, the president of the International federation Mr Jos'e Perurena Lopez”.

The record number of countries - 62 - entered for the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships in Moscow

About 900 athletes from 62 countries entered for the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships, which will be held from July, 28 to August, 4 in the Moscow rowing channel “Krylatskoe”. The General Secretary of the Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation Irina Sirayeva told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“To tell you the truth, we didn’t expect that the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships in Moscow will become so popular, - Irina Siraeva smiled. - For the moment about 900 athletes from 62 countries have sent preliminary entries. Such new for rowing regions as North Korea, South Africa, Thailand and Singapore are among them. These numbers are really very big, they are records for sure. Anyway, I can’t remember such numbers for 17 years of my work in the federation. What is the reason for such high interest? First, there haven’t been spent the international canoe and kayak competitions for a long time in Russia. Second, it means, that our kind of sports is really being developed all over the world. This indicator is the proof that canoe and kayak have great future”.

Irina Sirayeva also assured that the record number of participants won’t influence quality of the competitions. “The Management of the sport and entertainment actions of Moscow with Alexander Polinsky in the head is organizing the championships. These people have held already more than 15 World and European championships in different kinds of sport in Moscow. That’s why there were no difficulties for them in organizing our tournament”, - Irina Siraeva explained.

Numerical Entries — Summary Table

Numerical Entries - Summary Table

Nominal Entries — deadline is July 17th, 2009

Dear Friends!

We continue the preparation for the carrying out of 2009 ICF Junior Canoe Sprint World Championship in Moscow. It remains a very few time when we will meet you in Moscow on the Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Canal in Krylatskoye.

In this connection we would like to remind you that on July, 17th is a deadline of giving of Nominal Entries. Hurry to send them who has not made it yet.

Also you can make registration of the Nominal Entry on the web-page of competitions in system ON-LINE. Your logins and passwords for access will be dispatched you soon.

We ask you to use this system for registration of your participants and crews and also for placing of participants photos for accreditation.

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If you prefer payment via bank you are kindly requested to send a copy of the bank confirmation after the remittance to the fax number: +7 (495) 690 43 06 or e-mail: terehova@dszm.ru

And please, be noticed that Orgcommittee will impose a fine from July 15th, 2009.

For cancellation of booking after this date you should pay residing cost for 1 day for each cancelled place of accommodation.

Accreditation

In order to allow to rapidly carry out the accreditation procedure at your arrival you are kindly requested to send us with the filled forms of Nominal Entry as well as the photos of every team member who has to be accredited, athlete, coach, physiotherapist, doctor or other with name identification before 17th July 2009.

You can send them by e-mail, regular mail or use the on-line registration on competitions web-site: jwch2009.kayak-canoe.ru

Athletes Waiver Form

In accordance with the Agreement Organizing Committee shall provide all information on athletes acquired including athletes biographies, photographs and other information obtained through the online accreditation system and from the Athletes Questionnaire (had to be filled up and returned till June 1, 2009).

Orgcommittee shall be responsible and assure that the ICF is legally allowed to use this data.

Therefore we are kindly asking all participants in the Championships to sign the Athletes Waiver Form. Team-leaders of National Federations have to hand over this forms to the Orgcommittee during the accreditation.

The Major of Moscow Yury Luzhkov headed the Organizing Committee for the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships

The Major of Moscow Yury Luzhkov signed the order N1155-RP “About the preparation and holding of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championship”, which will be held in the rowing channel in Krylatskoe on July, 31 - August, 2. The Agency of sport information “All Sport” reports.

Yury Luzhkov headed the organizing committee. His assistants in the organizing committee will be: the Vise-Major in the Moscow Government in problems of the interregional cooperation, sports and tourism Sergey Baydakov, the Vise-Minister of Sports, tourism and youth policy Gennady Aleshin and the president of the Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation Eugeny Arhipov.

The opening ceremony of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships will be held in Moscow on July, 30

The solemn opening ceremony of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships, which will be held on July, 31 - August, 2 in the rowing channel in Krylatskoe, Moscow, will be held a day before the start of the competitions on July, 30. The General Secretary of the Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation Irina Isayeva told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“First the Management of the sport and entertainment actions of Moscow, which has huge experience of holding big competitions, was going to hold the solemn opening ceremony on the first day of the competitions, on July, 31, - Irina Isayeva said. - We thought that at that moment the stands would be already filled by the fans, for whom this part of competitions actually is made. But the International Kayak and Canoe Federation (ICF) told us that, according to the rules of holding the competitions of the ICF, the opening ceremony is held mostly for the participants of the competitions, that’s why it’s necessary to hold it a day before the start. Certainly, we made concessions. The solemn opening ceremony of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships will be held on July, 30 in Moscow, at 18.00 p.m., after the team managers meeting. But any case we expect the presence of the fans at the ceremony, for the moment we are preparing the invitations. The ceremony will consist of two parts - the official part and entertainment. During the first part of the ceremony the officials will make speech, the parade of the countries-participants will be held and the flags will be raised. In the second part of the ceremony the musical performances are planned, and at the end - the fireworks. So, nobody will be bored”.

At the Russian Cup in Kayak and Canoe rowing in Krasnodar the new start system for the World championships 2009 in Krylatskoe was tested

At the Russian Cup in Kayak and Canoe rowing in Krasnodar on May, 29-31, the new start system was tested, that is planned to be used at the World Junior championships 2009 in Krylatskoe on July, 30 - August, 2. Dmitry Mironov, the counselor of the president of the Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation Eugeny Arkhipov told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“The start in Krasnodar became the final big competition in our country before the World championships, - Dmitry Mironov mentioned. - We decided to use such a good opportunity. We invited the commission of the International Kayak and Canoe Federation (ICF) with the technical delegate of the World championships Elisabeth Muller in the head to Krasnodar. And we tested the new start system, which will be used at the World championships in Krylatskoe. Besides, we tested several ideas in organizing the competition, which we submitted to the ICF commission. I think that it is a very useful experience for us before the final stage of the preparation for the World championships”.

The International federation gave positive mark to the readiness of Moscow to the World Canoe and Kayak Championships

On April, 22-23 the official delegation from the International Canoe and Kayak federation (ICF) with the technical delegate of the ICF Elisabeth Muller in the head visited Moscow and checked the readiness for the World Junior championships in the rowing channel in Krylatskoe on July, 28 - August, 4. Dmitry Mironov, the counselor of the president of the Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation Eugeny Arkhipov told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“It was the first official visit to Moscow of the ICF representatives and personally the technical delegate of the ICF Elisabeth Muller, - Dmitry Mironov said. - Till this moment it was more convenient to solve all the problems by e-mail. Mrs. Muller during her two days visit inspected the rowing channel in Krylatskoe, its infrastructure and logistics possibilities, and also accommodation conditions in the three hotels, which we are planning to offer to the guests of the World Championships. Besides, we invited her to be personally present at the meeting of the Management of the sport and entertainment actions of Moscow, at which we discussed the questions of preparations to our tournament. On the results of her visit Elisabeth Muller noticed, that she had seen the real interest of the city officials in successful holding of the World championships, and for the moment she was sure that all the problems left would be solved. Thus, it is possible to call the ICF’s estimation of actual readiness of Moscow unequivocally positive”.

The legendary Maxim Opalev became the prototype for the mascot of the Moscow World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships 2009

The official logotype of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships, which will be held on July, 28 - August, 4 2009 in Moscow in the rowing channel in Krylatskoe, has been confirmed. The president of the Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation Eugeny Arhipov told about it to the Agency sport information “All Sport”.

“At the Junior World championships we are planning to welcome about 1000 guests from more than 50 countries, - Eugeny Arhipov noticed. - Such big international competitions in Canoe and Kayak haven’t been held in this channel since the Olympic Games 1980. Therefore, we approach the organization of the tournament with maximum gravity. As I have already announced, in the nearest future the Major of Moscow Yury Luzshkov is going to sign the order “About the preparation and holding of the World Junior Canoe and Kayak championships in Moscow 2009”, and he will be the head of the Organizing Committee. We already have the first news. The official logotype of World has been confirmed, where the mascot of the tournament is also represented - the bear-canoeist. Frankly speaking, when we first tried to imagine how the mascot should look like, what personal and professional qualities it should have, at once we thought about our famous canoeist, Olympic champion Maxim Opalev. Maxim by right has a great popularity among the young athletes; he is a real example for the growing generation. That’s why, the designers, working at the logotype, used also the image of Opalev. Don’t be surprised, that our bear-canoeist “wears” red bandana”.