The RCNP will reunite the international canoeing elite at the Ciutat de Palma Trophy

IB3 will stream the event live from 4:25 p.m. next Saturday, October 11th, with the comments of athletes Sete Benavides and Carla Vey.

The Real Club Náutico de Palma has confirmed the definitive list of participants for the second edition of the Ciutat de Palma Trophy of Canoeing, which will take place on October 11th, at the Parc de la Mar, at the feet of Mallorca’s cathedral. The category ‘Élite’ will reunite 24 paddlers from ten countries, whose awards sum up over 400 international medals and 18 olympic ones.

In the female category, Anna Pulawska (Poland), Deborah Kerr (United Kingdom), Emily Lewis (United Kingdom), Anna Lucz (Hungary), Margot Maillet (France), Paulina Paszek (Poland), Selma Konijn (Netherlands), Ruth Vorsselman (Netherlands), Teresa Portela (Portugal), Estefanía Fernández (Spain), Lucía Val (Spain) and Bárbara Pardo (Spain) will compete.

In the male category. Alex Graneri (Spain), Carlos Arévalo (Spain), Gery Balogh (Hungary), Manfredi Rizza (Italy), Jonas Ecker (USA), Paco Cubelos (Spain), João Ribeiro (Portugal), Messias Baptista (Portugal), Tom Liebscher (Germany), Fernando Pimenta (Portugal), Rodrigo Germade (Spain) and Marcus Cooper (Spain) will compete.

In addition, another 20 international athletes that have acceded through the open inscription (Open) will compete during the morning of Saturday for the four left available places in the ‘Élite’ category.

The trophy’s program will start next Thursday, October 9th, at 11 a.m. with the official press conference of the presentation at the RCNP, to which will assist the Mallorcan athletes Marcus Cooper (three-times olympic medallist) and Alex Graneri (two-times world’s bronze and one of the greatest revelations of the season). The following day, October 10th, the official training will take place from 10 a.m. at the Parc de la Mar. That same afternoon, at 6 p.m., the Sala Magna of the RCNP will host the presentation of the teams.

On Saturday, day 11th, the children races will take place from 11 a.m., followed by the Open category at 1 p.m. and the Élite competition at 4 p.m. The awards ceremony is programmed between 6:45 p.m. and 7 p.m.

All the activities will be access free for the public, who will be able to keep track of the regattas from the Parc de la Mar area. The organization, in coordination with Palm’s Town Hall, has confirmed that the base of the event will be in the lagoon area nearer to Antoni Maura’s street and Paseo del Borne, which will allow a major closeness with the city. “We want Palma to enjoy a unique spectacle by the hand of Real Club Náutico de Palma”, has affirmed Manu Fraga, director of the organizing entity.

Marta García, IB3 Sports director; Rafael Gil, RCNP’s president; Josep Codony, general director of IB3, and Manu Fraga, RCNP’s manager, after the agreement for the streaming of the Ciutat de Palma Trophy of Canoeing in the autonomic public TV.

The competition ‘Élite’ will be retransmitted live by IB3, the public television of the Balearics, from 4:25 p.m. on Saturday, with the reporter Joan Rotger as the narrator and the technical comments of athletes Carla Vey and Sete Benavides.

The regattas of Ciutat de Palma aim to increase the spectacle with turning manoeuvres, which obliges athletes to get out of their comfort zone and it generates great tension moments in every competition.

This format is, along the scenery of the competition, the main attraction of the event. “In the World Cups of the official circuit -affirms Carlos Borrás, coach at the RCNP and coordinator of the Ciutat de Palma-, Spanish athlete share that their international peers ask them my contact to know how they can participate in the Ciutat de Palma. That’s why this year we have added the phase ‘Open’ as an innovation, with an open inscription to paddlers of the whole world, and the K2 mixed modality, which adds a format designed so that sprinters and paddlers share the area on equal terms.

Piraguas Nelo, as the main sponsor, and Palma’s Town Hall, through their institutional sponsorship, support this initiative that aims to stand out in the local calendar of great international sports events. The competition also has the collaboration of Paddle Games, the Royal Spanish Canoeing Federation and the Balearic one.