Welcome to the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup Series 2012

Canoe Slalom World Cups are staged differently. For the 2012 season, five World Cups will be held. The ICF will award the World Cup to the overall winner of the series in the Men’s and Women’s K1 event, the Men’s and Women's C1 event and the Men’s C2 event.

All athletes competing in a Semi-Final and Finals race are eligible to receive points on a sliding scale from 60 points (1st place) to 5 points for the last place in the semifinal. All other competing athletes will receive 2 points.

Information on the World Cup race series is here and the full points system is available on www.canoeicf.com

What is Slalom?

Canoe Slalom is an exciting adrenaline fuelled sport, where the paddlers have to negotiate their way down a 300m white water rapid.

Paddlers race through a series of up to 25 gates, which are made up of red and green poles. The coloured poles determine the direction that the paddlers must past through gates. Paddlers have the challenge to race as fast as they can through the course of gates whilst battling with the challenging white water rapids of waves, stoppers and eddies to accomplish the quickest time. Paddlers are awarded time penalties of 2 seconds if they touch a gate and 50 seconds if they miss a gate altogether, which is added to their running time. The combined score of time and penalties determines the finish order.