Canoe Focus Autumn 2017 | Page 28

28 Performance Update Heath, Chippington and Wiggs claim Grand Slams British Canoeing’s Liam Heath, Jeanette Chippington and Emma Wiggs all completed Grand Slam of titles, after taking gold at the World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. 29 Chippington wins worlds title no 11 and achieves rare grand slam Read more Heath stays on top of the world and claims grand slam as cawthorn hannah and brown take bronze Read more U21 men crowned Canoe Polo European Champions Great Britain’s under 21 men’s team have won the gold medal at the ECA European Canoe Polo European Championships, in Saint-Omer, France. Double gold for great britain as four athletes make the podium Read more Read more here Great Britain’s squad have won five medals at the 2017 ECA Canoe Marathon European Championships in Ponte de Lima, Portugal. Read more here Olympic Champion Liam Heath set the world’s fastest ever men’s K1 200m time as he successfully defended his Sprint European Championships title in Plovdiv. Ieuan James crowned World Junior Champion Ieuan James was crowned canoe sprint World Junior Champion in Pitesti, Romania today, Great Britain’s first canoe sprint world junior title for 22 years. This builds on his European Junior title won in Belgrade last month. Read more here Heath is fastest man ever in K1 200 Read more here Medal success at Canoe Marathon Euro Champs Mallory Franklin Claims Junior and U23 World Championship Title Mallory Franklin won the gold medal in the C1 women’s U23 following a clean run in the final, finishing over three seconds ahead of Tereza Fiserova from the Czech Republic, to claim her first individual World Championship title. Read more here