World Cup 2 Final Results and Photos

August 24, 2008

Photos

World Cup 2 was held in Augsburg, Germany, on the Eiscanal, a man-made whitewater course built in 1972. The Washing Machine is still the best hole for this type of course and it was built 36 years ago. The feature was awesome, and people had a lot of fun training and competing on it. Let’s focus on the competition…
Today was 100% finals day. The day started with the Junior Women at 10:00am, then the OC1’s, then the C1’s and then a break. At 1pm the Junior Men went, followed by the Senior Women, and finally the Senior Men.
Here are the top 5 in each class. I hope to have an electronic version of the scores up soon that shows 1-76 in the men’s class, for example.
Another VERY important thing to know if you are wondering how people are doing in the world cup is to understand how the three events combine to determine the winners.
Each event gives each athlete an opportunity to earn points. The Points go as follows:
1st=100, 2nd=95, 3rd=90, 4th=85, 5th=80, 6=75, 7th=74, 8th=73, 9th=72 all of the way down to the point where you only get 1 point, and then you simply get 1 point for competing.
Your points from each event are added together and the leader wins the world cup. If there is a tie in points, the Final Event, this weekend coming up in Thun, Switzerland is the tie breaker.
Now to the World Cup 2 results.
Men’s Kayak
Dustin Urban- USA- 816 points
Peter Czonka- Slovakia- 787 points
EJ- USA- 767 points
Simon Strohmeier- Germany- 700 points
Mathieu Dumoulin- France- 687 points
Women’s Kayak
Emily Jackson- USA- 380 points
Ruth Gordon- Canada- 287 points
Maria Lindgren- Sweden- 250 points
Nina Halasova- Slovakia- 250 points (lost by tie breaker)
Marlene Devillez- France- 170 points
Junior Men’s Kayak
Jakob Ehrl- Germany- 553 points
Sebastian Devred- France- 497 points
Michael Palmer- USA- 440 points
Dane Jackson- USA- 300 points
Jason Craig- USA- 253 points
Junior Women’s Kayak
Sandrina Hornhardt- Germany- 33 points
Andrea Kaspers- Germany- 20 points
Vera Knook- Netherlands- 17 points
Melinda Schwarzer- Germany- 13 points
Leonie HAberling- Switzerland- 13 points
C1
Markus Hummel- Germany- 367 points
Stepan Fiedler- Czech- 350 points
Alexandre Besseau- France- 310 points
Lukas Cervinka- Czech- 280 points
Lee Pyke- England- 260 points-
OC1
James Wier- England- 167 points
Jez Blanchard- Australia- 120 points
Jan Liska- Czech- 97 points
Toby Huther- Germany- 47 points
Fabian Krummreich- Germany- 27 points
I don’t have the rankings for all competitors after World Cup #2 but I have done the math for a few:
Women’s Kayak
1. Emily Jackson: 195 points
2. Ruth Gordon: 185 points
Men’s Kayak
1 Peter Czonka 195 points
2. Dustin Urban: 180 points
3. EJ: 175 points
That is enough for now. When we get the printed list I’ll put it up for you.
We tried to drive to Switzerland, but I was too tired to drive without falling asleep. After a big day like today, I get wiped out, especially after a day like yesterday.
Look for more photos and updates from Stephen Wright! Some of these photos are by Jessica, Stephen’s girlfriend using my camera.

EJ