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WA State 10km Championships

Was promising to be a warm and sunny Perth Day so 65 paddlers made the trip out to Champion Lakes to contest the State 10km Championships on Tuesday 27th December 2011.
 
With the theme of  “Hogmanay”  the Scottish celebration of the New Year, several paddlers donned various items of Scottish dress.  Our 3 totally unbiased judges selected several winners for their efforts including an imitation Lock Ness Monster.
 
39 craft did the full 10 km course with 8 Juniors doing the 5 km course and 8 Guppies doing their course.  Medals where presented to the winners of the 10 different classes on the day.
 
Despite the windy conditions Six Class Records where broken and four Inaugural Records where set for future paddlers to target.  Simon Roll and Tess Watson where the fastest Male and Female Paddlers on the Day.  
 
Champion Lakes Boating Club provided the post race snack.     
 
Marathon Racing in WA is supported by KAOS Kayaks (www.kaoskayaks.com)

Marathon Selection Nomination and Policy

The Marathon Team will be going to the 2012 World Championships in Rome.

If you would like to be considered for selection you will need to nominate using the link below.

Nominations close 3 April 2012.

QUALIFICATION FOR THE 2013 WORLD GAMES

At the World Games 2013 in Cali, Colombia, for the first time Canoe Marathon will be on the programme. The discipline will be represented by the six senior World Championships classes.

A qualification system has been set up for approval by the ICF Board of Directors at their meeting in November this year. Below is the recommendation:

DRAFT QUALIFICATION SYSTEM – WORLD GAMES CALI
 
1. Events - (6) Men’s Events (4) Women’s Events (2):
 
Men K1, Men K2, Men C1, Men C2, Women K1, Women K2
 
2. Total Quota 
   

3. Quota Per Nation
   

* See clause 5 (iv) below for boat quota in K1 and C1 events.
 
4. Athlete Eligibility 

All NF's must participate in the applicable event at the 2012 Canoe Marathon World Championships to be eligible for an Athlete Quota Place for that event in the Marathon Canoeing events at the World
Games 2013.
 

5. Qualification System 

i) Athlete quota places will be allocated to the respective NF’s and not to Competitor(s) that achieved the place in the qualification event.

ii) An athlete can qualify and compete in one or more events; however the athlete can only acquire one athlete place for its NF regardless of how many places or boats that athlete qualifies in other
events. (For example, Athlete A qualifies in K1 and K2 with athlete B from the same NF. This would result in two athlete quota places and two boats quota places for the World Games. The quotas would be
attributed to the largest boat category qualified, in this example it would be K2. The third athlete quota would be reallocated according to the unused athlete quota places process in the K1 category).

iii) The number of Athlete and Boat Quota Places allocated in the Qualification Competitions for Canoe Marathon will be as follows: 
 

iv) From the athlete quota places allocated a National Federation may enter a maximum of 2 boats in the Men’s K1, Women’s K1 and Men’s C1 if they have earned sufficient quote places to do so. A NF
can only enter one boat per event in the Men’s K2 and C2 and Women’s K2 events.

6. World Championships and Continental Qualification

i) An NF will be able to obtain athlete quota places from the 2012 Canoe Marathon World Championships. The best ranked boats will achieve quota places in that specific event for their NF.

ii) In the 2012 Canoe Marathon World Championships the first placed boat from each continent will achieve quota places for their NF. (i.e. five places per event)

iii) The remaining quota places will be allocated to each NF of the best ranked boats until the required number of boat quota places have been achieved for the event concerned.

iv) Should a continent not be present in a particular event there will be no quota place allocated to that continent and the next best ranked NF regardless of continent will be allocated the place from the
2012 Canoe Marathon World Championship standings.

v) If Columbia are represented in the continents that have achieved a quota place in an event at the 2012 Canoe Marathon World Championships then they will be the Continental allocation for America.
In that event the host nation quota will be awarded to the next best ranked NF regardless of continent.
 
The minimum number of boats and maximum number of athletes that will qualify for the World Games are defined in the table below:
 

* - Must include a NF from every continent 

7. Host Country Representation

Should the Host NF not manage to obtain an athlete quota place in the respective events, it will be entitled to receive quota places in the following events:

8. Confirmation process for quota places 

The ICF will inform NFs in writing on 1 October 2012 of the athlete quota places they have obtained at the 2012 Marathon World Championships. Eligible NFs must inform the ICF in writing by 15 October 2012 whether or not they intend to participate at the World Games. By 21 October 2012 the ICF will reallocate all available quota places, as outlined below.
 
9. Reallocation of unused quota places 

i) Should an NF return an athlete quota place from a continental allocation the next best ranked NF in that event from the same continent will be allocated the athlete quota place. The process will be
repeated until all places are allocated.

ii) ) In the case where there are no more eligible NFs that can gain an athlete quota place from the same continent, the athlete quota place will be given to the next best ranked NF from the 2012 Canoe
Marathon World Championships, not yet qualified, regardless of continental representation.

iii)  Should an any other  NF return an athlete quota place that has been obtained from the 2012 Canoe Marathon World Championships, the next best ranked NF in that event, not yet qualified, will
be allocated the athlete quota place. This process will be repeated until all places are allocated.

iv) If an athlete quota place is not filled from the procedures outlined above, the quota places will be allocated by the ICF Canoe Marathon Committee.