1998 Canoe Slalom World Cup Explained

The 1998 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 11th edition. The series consisted of 4 regular world cup races and the world cup final.

Calendar

Label	Venue	Date
World Cup Race 1	Liptovský Mikuláš	13–14 June
World Cup Race 2	Tacen	20–21 June
World Cup Race 3	Augsburg	27–28 June
World Cup Race 4	Wausau	31 July - 2 August
World Cup Final	La Seu d'Urgell	11–13 September

Final standings

The winner of each world cup race was awarded 30 points. The points scale reached down to 1 point for 20th place in the men's K1, while in the other three categories only the top 15 received points (with 6 points for 15th place). 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.^[1]

C1 men

Pos	Athlete	Points
1		80
2		66
3		65
4		60
5		57
6		55
6		55
8		51
9		43
10		42

C2 men

Pos	Athletes	Points
1		68
2		65
3		61
4		59
5		54
6		48
7		46
7		46
9		43
10		41

K1 men

Pos	Athlete	Points
1		85
2		63
3		57
4		55
5		53
6		52
7		45
8		41
9		40
10		36

K1 women

Pos	Athlete	Points
1		75
2		70
3		59
4		57
5		50
6		49
7		47
8		45
9		44
10		41

Results

World Cup Race 1

The first world cup race of the season took place at the Ondrej Cibak Whitewater Slalom Course in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia from 13 to 14 June.^[2]

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score
C1 men		214.70		216.56		218.06
C2 men	Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder	230.14	Jaroslav Volf Ondřej Štěpánek	232.24	Jaroslav Pospíšil Jaroslav Pollert	233.10
K1 men		205.65		206.78		209.24
K1 women		224.74		228.66		231.28

World Cup Race 2

The second world cup race of the season took place at the Tacen Whitewater Course, Slovenia from 20 to 21 June.^[3]

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score
C1 men		202.14		209.05		209.19
C2 men	Milan Kubáň Marián Olejník	224.27	Roman Štrba Roman Vajs	226.48	Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	227.02
K1 men		188.01		189.67		190.71
K1 women		232.81		234.18		241.53

World Cup Race 3

The third world cup race of the season took place at the Augsburg Eiskanal, Germany from 27 to 28 June.^[4]

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score
C1 men		228.61		230.34		231.52
C2 men	Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	233.75	Krzysztof Kołomański Michał Staniszewski	241.75	André Ehrenberg Michael Senft	241.85
K1 men		215.75		216.03		217.26
K1 women		257.46		258.80		261.14

World Cup Race 4

The fourth world cup race of the season took place in Wausau, Wisconsin from 31 July to 2 August.^[5]

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score
C1 men		245.99		249.16		250.00
C2 men	Éric Biau Bertrand Daille	265.33	Nathanael Fouquet Alexandre Lauvergne	266.93	Matt Taylor Lecky Haller	268.96
K1 men		233.82		237.62		242.17
K1 women		273.52		273.94		274.51

World Cup Final

The final world cup race of the season took place at the Segre Olympic Park in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain from 11 to 13 September.^[6]

Event	align=center bgcolor="gold"	Gold	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="silver"	Silver	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score	align=center bgcolor="CC9966"	Bronze	align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF"	Score
C1 men		208.44		213.93		214.21
C2 men	Roman Štrba Roman Vajs	223.00	Petr Štercl Pavel Štercl	228.89	Marek Jiras Tomáš Máder	229.14
K1 men		200.49		201.13		202.90
K1 women		224.68		232.30		236.78

External links

International Canoe Federation

Notes and References

Web site: 1998 World Cup Final Rankings. 16 September 2017.
Web site: Results - World Cup Race 1. 16 September 2017.
Web site: Results - World Cup Race 2. 16 September 2017.
Web site: Results - World Cup Race 3. 16 September 2017.
Web site: Results - World Cup Race 4. 16 September 2017.
Web site: Official results - World Cup Final. 16 September 2017.