1997 Canoe Slalom World Cup

Last updated March 03, 2019

The 1997 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 10th 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	Bourg-Saint-Maurice	21–22 June
World Cup Race 2	Björbo	28–29 June
World Cup Race 3	Bratislava	4–6 July
World Cup Race 4	Ocoee	27–28 July
World Cup Final	Minden	2–3 August

Final standings

The winner of each world cup race in the men's K1 was awarded 30 points while in the other three categories the winner was awarded 25 points. The points scale reached down to 1 point for 20th place in the men's K1 (15th place in the other three categories). 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. Furthermore, an athlete or boat had to compete in the world cup final in order to be classified in the world cup rankings. If two or more athletes or boats were equal on points, the ranking was determined by their positions in the world cup final.^[1]

C1 men

Pos	Athlete	Points^[1]
1	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	65
2	David Hearn (USA)	50
3	Gareth Marriott (GBR)	44
4	Michal Martikán (SVK)	37
5	Stanislav Ježek (CZE)	36
6	Tony Estanguet (FRA)	33
7	Hervé Delamarre (FRA)	32
8	Yves Narduzzi (FRA)	31
9	Gregor Terdič (SLO)	27
10	David Jančar (CZE)	25

C2 men

Pos	Athletes	Points^[1]
1	Frank Adisson / Wilfrid Forgues (FRA)	62
2	Marek Jiras / Tomáš Máder (CZE)	60
3	Miroslav Šimek / Jiří Rohan (CZE)	60
4	Éric Biau / Bertrand Daille (FRA)	41
5	Roman Štrba / Roman Vajs (SVK)	32
6	Jérôme Daille / Nil Georgel (FRA)	27
7	François Letourneau / Benoît Gauthier (CAN)	26
8	Stuart Bowman / Nick Smith (GBR)	17
9	Thierry Saidi / Emmanuel del Rey (FRA)	17
10	Luke Moore / Fred Coriell (USA)	12

K1 men

Pos	Athlete	Points^[1]
1	Scott Shipley (USA)	75
2	Ian Wiley (IRL)	70
3	Thomas Becker (GER)	70
4	Paul Ratcliffe (GBR)	68
5	Manuel Köhler (AUT)	58
6	David Ford (CAN)	49
7	Fedja Marušič (SLO)	45
8	Shaun Pearce (GBR)	42
9	Peter Nagy (SVK)	40
10	Jochen Lettmann (GER)	35

K1 women

Pos	Athlete	Points^[1]
1	Irena Pavelková (CZE)	65
2	Cristina Giai Pron (ITA)	49
3	Cathy Hearn (USA)	45
4	Brigitte Guibal (FRA)	41
5	Lynn Simpson (GBR)	39
6	Heather Corrie (GBR)	37
7	Anne Boixel (FRA)	36
8	Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE)	30
9	Anouk Loubie (FRA)	23
10	Kara Weld (USA)	21

Results

World Cup Race 1

The first world cup race of the season took place in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France from 21 to 22 June.^[2]

Bourg-Saint-Maurice, popularly known as Bourg, is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country's 18 integral regions span a combined area of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a total population of 67.3 million. France, a sovereign state, is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban areas include Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)		David Hearn (USA)		Danko Herceg (CRO)
C2 men	France Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues		Czech Republic Miroslav Šimek Jiří Rohan		Czech Republic Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder
K1 men	Paul Ratcliffe (GBR)		Thomas Becker (GER)		Fedja Marušič (SLO)
K1 women	Anne Boixel (FRA)		Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE)		Irena Pavelková (CZE)

World Cup Race 2

The second world cup race of the season took place in Björbo, Sweden from 28 to 29 June.^[3]

Björbo is a locality situated in Gagnef Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 697 inhabitants in 2010.

Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Scandinavian Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund, a strait at the Swedish-Danish border. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2 million of which 2.4 million has a foreign background. It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi). The highest concentration is in the southern half of the country.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Hervé Delamarre (FRA)	224.28	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	224.86	Yves Narduzzi (FRA)	231.55
C2 men	Poland Krzysztof Kołomański Michał Staniszewski	232.94	France Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	232.99	Czech Republic Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder	235.18
K1 men	Paul Ratcliffe (GBR)	203.95	Shaun Pearce (GBR)	207.08	Scott Shipley (USA)	208.32
K1 women	Cristina Giai Pron (ITA)	249.57	Cathy Hearn (USA)	249.64	Margaret Langford (CAN)	250.57

World Cup Race 3

The third world cup race of the season took place at the Čunovo Water Sports Centre, Slovakia from 4 to 6 July.^[4]

The Čunovo Water Sports Centre is an artificial whitewater slalom course in Slovakia, on an island in the Danube river, 14 km southeast of Bratislava, near the village of Čunovo. It is powered by flow diversion from the Čunovo dam. Since 1997, it has hosted a full schedule of local, regional, and international competitions, including multiple World Cup races, 2 European Championships and the 2011 World Championships.

Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres (19,000 sq mi) and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5.4 million and consists mostly of Slovaks. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, and the second largest city is Košice. The official language is Slovak.

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Michal Martikán (SVK)	241.17	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	241.27	Martin Lang (GER)	253.89
C2 men	Slovakia Milan Kubáň Marián Olejník	259.29	Czech Republic Miroslav Šimek Jiří Rohan	264.96	Slovakia Ľuboš Šoška Peter Šoška	270.00
K1 men	Manuel Köhler (AUT)	232.70	Thomas Becker (GER)	234.52	Fedja Marušič (SLO)	234.72
K1 women	Lynn Simpson (GBR)	269.41	Irena Pavelková (CZE)	273.34	Kordula Striepecke (GER)	278.96

World Cup Race 4

The fourth world cup race of the season took place at the Ocoee Whitewater Center, Tennessee from 27 to 28 July.^[5]

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	Gareth Marriott (GBR)	291.38	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	297.07	David Hearn (USA)	299.40
C2 men	France Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	302.88	Czech Republic Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder	304.27	France Éric Biau Bertrand Daille	305.47
K1 men	Ian Wiley (IRL)	271.10	Scott Shipley (USA)	273.30	Ludovic Boulesteix (FRA)	278.23
K1 women	Brigitte Guibal (FRA)	314.96	Irena Pavelková (CZE)	324.56	Cristina Giai Pron (ITA)	329.65

World Cup Final

The final world cup race of the season took place at the Minden Wild Water Preserve, Ontario from 2 to 3 August.^[6]

Event	Gold	Score	Silver	Score	Bronze	Score
C1 men	Tony Estanguet (FRA)	242.41	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)	242.50	David Hearn (USA)	242.75
C2 men	Czech Republic Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder	251.83	Czech Republic Miroslav Šimek Jiří Rohan	254.81	France Éric Biau Bertrand Daille	259.99
K1 men	Scott Shipley (USA)	224.83	Ian Wiley (IRL)	227.61	Thomas Becker (GER)	231.15
K1 women	Irena Pavelková (CZE)	265.26	Heather Corrie (GBR)	270.52	Cathy Hearn (USA)	283.66

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References

1 2 3 4 5 1997 World Cup standings Final Results - accessed December 28, 2011
↑ Results - World Cup Race 1 - accessed December 31, 2011
↑ "Official results - World Cup Race 2" (PDF). Retrieved 15 September 2017.
↑ "Official results - World Cup Race 3" (PDF). Retrieved 15 September 2017.
↑ Results - World Cup Race 4 - accessed January 14, 2012
↑ Results - World Cup Final - accessed January 14, 2012

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[standings-1] 1 2 3 4 5 1997 World Cup standings Final Results - accessed December 28, 2011

[2] Results - World Cup Race 1 - accessed December 31, 2011

[3] "Official results - World Cup Race 2" (PDF). Retrieved 15 September 2017.

[4] "Official results - World Cup Race 3" (PDF). Retrieved 15 September 2017.

[5] Results - World Cup Race 4 - accessed January 14, 2012

[6] Results - World Cup Final - accessed January 14, 2012