1996 Canoe Slalom World Cup

Last updated March 03, 2019

The 1996 Canoe Slalom World Cup was a series of five races in 4 canoeing and kayaking categories organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 9th edition. The series consisted of 4 regular world cup races and the world cup final.

The ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup is an annual series of races in canoe slalom held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. It has been held since 1988 in four canoe and kayak disciplines for men and women. The four original disciplines were men's single canoe (C1), men's double canoe (C2), men's kayak (K1) and women's kayak. A women's single canoe discipline (C1) has been added to the world cup in 2010. The men's C2 event was removed from the world cup series in 2018 and it was replaced by the mixed C2 event. 2018 was also the first time that world cup points were awarded for the extreme K1 event.

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) is the umbrella organization of all national canoe organizations worldwide. It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and administers all aspects of canoe sport worldwide. 157 countries are affiliated with the ICF after seven national federations were added at the 2008 ICF Congress in Rome.

Calendar

Label	Venue	Date
World Cup Race 1	Ocoee	19–21 April
World Cup Race 2	La Seu d'Urgell	8–9 June
World Cup Race 3	Augsburg	15–16 June
World Cup Race 4	Prague	24–25 August
World Cup Final	Três Coroas	23–29 September

Final standings

The winner of each world cup race was awarded 25 points. The points scale reached down to 1 point for 15th place. Only the best two results of each athlete from the first 4 world cups plus the result from the world cup final counted for the final world cup standings. If two or more athletes or boats were equal on points, the ranking was determined by their positions in the world cup final.

C1 men

Pos	Athlete	Points^[1]
1	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	65
2	Sören Kaufmann (GER)	42
3	Michal Martikán (SVK)	40
4	David Hearn (USA)	38
5	Lukáš Pollert (CZE)	38
6	Martin Lang (GER)	34
7	Tony Estanguet (FRA)	33
8	David Jančar (CZE)	32
9	Adam Clawson (USA)	31
10	Simon Hočevar (SLO)	28

C2 men

Pos	Athletes	Points^[1]
1	Frank Adisson / Wilfrid Forgues (FRA)	75
2	Ueli Matti / Peter Matti (SUI)	51
3	Marek Jiras / Tomáš Máder (CZE)	49
4	Fritz Haller / Lecky Haller (USA)	45
5	Milan Kubáň / Marián Olejník (SVK)	39
6	Éric Biau / Bertrand Daille (FRA)	32
7	Miroslav Šimek / Jiří Rohan (CZE)	31
8	Petr Štercl / Pavel Štercl (CZE)	23
9	Manfred Berro / Michael Trummer (GER)	20
9	Thierry Saidi / Emmanuel del Rey (FRA)	20

K1 men

Pos	Athlete	Points^[1]
1	Thomas Becker (GER)	60
2	Scott Shipley (USA)	57
3	Fedja Marušič (SLO)	55
4	Jochen Lettmann (GER)	39
5	Paul Ratcliffe (GBR)	38
6	Enrico Lazzarotto (ITA)	36
7	Ian Wiley (IRL)	25
7	Vincent Fondeviole (FRA)	25
9	Michael Reys (NED)	24
10	Andrew Raspin (GBR)	24

K1 women

Pos	Athlete	Points^[1]
1	Lynn Simpson (GBR)	59
2	Elisabeth Micheler-Jones (GER)	55
3	Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE)	50
4	Cristina Giai Pron (ITA)	44
5	Marcela Sadilová (CZE)	43
6	Elena Kaliská (SVK)	42
7	Rachel Crosbee (GBR)	38
8	Evi Huss (GER)	32
9	Cathy Hearn (USA)	31
10	Brigitte Guibal (FRA)	30

Results

World Cup Race 1

The first world cup race of the season took place at the Ocoee Whitewater Center, Tennessee from 19 to 21 April.^[2]

The Ocoee Whitewater Center, near Ducktown, Tennessee, United States, was the canoe slalom venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and is the only in-river course to be used for Olympic slalom competition. A 1,640 foot stretch of the Upper Ocoee River was narrowed by two-thirds to create the drops and eddies needed for a slalom course. Today, the course is watered only on summer weekends, 34 days a year, for use by guided rafts and private boaters. When the river has water, 24 commercial rafting companies take more than 750 raft passengers through the course each day.

Tennessee is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the west, and Missouri to the northwest. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, with a 2017 population of 667,560. Tennessee's second largest city is Memphis, which had a population of 652,236 in 2017.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Michal Martikán (SVK)	162.87	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	165.87	Emmanuel Brugvin (FRA)	166.02
C2 men	France Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	171.34	France Thierry Saidi Emmanuel del Rey	172.72	Czech Republic Petr Štercl Pavel Štercl	175.65
K1 men	Scott Shipley (USA)	148.70	Thomas Becker (GER)	149.18	Jochen Lettmann (GER)	154.41
K1 women	Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE)	175.10	Elisabeth Micheler-Jones (GER)	175.61	Kordula Striepecke (GER)	179.69

World Cup Race 2

The second world cup race of the season took place at the Segre Olympic Park in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain from 8 to 9 June.^[3]

Parc Olímpic del Segre is a canoeing and kayaking facility in La Seu d'Urgell, Catalonia, Spain, built in 1990 for use during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

La Seu d'Urgell is a town located in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain. La Seu d'Urgell is also the capital of the comarca Alt Urgell, head of the judicial district of la Seu d'Urgell and the seat of Bishop of Urgell, one of the Andorra co-princes. It is in the district of Alt Pirineu i Aran, and is the town with the most inhabitants, having 17.4% of the district population. La Seu d'Urgell and Puigcerdà together have 30% of the population of the area.

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)		David Jančar (CZE)		Justin Boocock (AUS)
C2 men	Czech Republic Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder		Switzerland Ueli Matti Peter Matti		France Pierre Luquet Christophe Luquet
K1 men	Ian Wiley (IRL)		Scott Shipley (USA)		Jochen Lettmann (GER)
K1 women	Lynn Simpson (GBR)		Cristina Giai Pron (ITA)		Marcela Sadilová (CZE)

World Cup Race 3

The third world cup race of the season took place at the Augsburg Eiskanal, Germany from 15 to 16 June.^[4]

The Augsburg Eiskanal is an artificial whitewater river in Augsburg, Germany, constructed as the canoe slalom venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics in nearby Munich.

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Martin Lang (GER)	115.68	Sören Kaufmann (GER)	116.61	Michal Martikán (SVK)	118.21
C2 men	France Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	124.96	United States Fritz Haller Lecky Haller	125.35	Germany André Ehrenberg Michael Senft	125.77
K1 men	Fedja Marušič (SLO)	110.37	Thomas Becker (GER)	110.55	Scott Shipley (USA)	110.98
K1 women	Elisabeth Micheler-Jones (GER)	127.72	Rachel Crosbee (GBR)	129.57	Evi Huss (GER)	130.75

World Cup Race 4

The fourth world cup race of the season took place at the Prague-Troja Canoeing Centre, Czech Republic from 24 to 25 August.^[5]

The Prague Canoeing Centre is one of the most frequently used venues for international canoe slalom competition. Built in 1983 in Czechoslovakia, it diverts water around a 3.6 metres (12 ft) dam at Troja on the Vltava river in Prague. Its two unique features are its use of car and truck tires as flow diverters and its shallow slope, closer to 1% than the usual nearly 2% for such venues. Despite these characteristics, the Troja facility has hosted ten World Cup races and one World Championship in the 21 years 1992-2012, and the 2013 World Championships.

The Czech Republic, also known by its short-form name, Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of 78,866 square kilometres (30,450 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental climate and oceanic climate. It is a unitary parliamentary republic, with 10.6 million inhabitants; its capital and largest city is Prague, with 1.3 million residents. Other major cities are Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc and Pilsen. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union (EU), NATO, the OECD, the United Nations, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Tony Estanguet (FRA)	121.53	Lukáš Pollert (CZE)	122.13	Yves Narduzzi (FRA)	123.31
C2 men	Slovakia Milan Kubáň Marián Olejník	134.32	Czech Republic Miroslav Šimek Jiří Rohan	139.55	France Gérard Menissier Claude Menissier	139.73
K1 men	Enrico Lazzarotto (ITA)	118.79	Vincent Fondeviole (FRA)	118.95	Fedja Marušič (SLO)	118.98
K1 women	Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE)	132.19	Marcela Sadilová (CZE)	132.81	Elena Kaliská (SVK)	134.72

World Cup Final

The final world cup race of the season took place in Três Coroas, Brazil from 23 to 29 September.^[6]

Três Coroas is a municipality in Brazil, located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population is currently estimated at 20,000.

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most populous. Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populated city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states, the Federal District, and the 5,570 municipalities. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Adam Clawson (USA)	126.03	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	126.73	David Hearn (USA)	127.54
C2 men	France Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	137.00	Switzerland Ueli Matti Peter Matti	138.21	United States Fritz Haller Lecky Haller	138.34
K1 men	Paul Ratcliffe (GBR)	116.70	Thomas Becker (GER)	117.33	Fedja Marušič (SLO)	119.14
K1 women	Lynn Simpson (GBR)	134.18	Brigitte Guibal (FRA)	135.70	Elena Kaliská (SVK)	136.15

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References

1 2 3 4 "1996 World Cup Final Rankings" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.
↑ "Official results - World Cup Race 1" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.
↑ Results - World Cup Race 2 - accessed January 21, 2012
↑ "Official results - World Cup Race 3" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.
↑ "Official results - World Cup Race 4" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.
↑ "Official results - World Cup Final" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.

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[standings-1] 1 2 3 4 "1996 World Cup Final Rankings" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.

[2] "Official results - World Cup Race 1" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.

[3] Results - World Cup Race 2 - accessed January 21, 2012

[4] "Official results - World Cup Race 3" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.

[5] "Official results - World Cup Race 4" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.

[6] "Official results - World Cup Final" (PDF). Retrieved 10 September 2017.