Place 13 over 1000m in the K1 event. After my 12th place last year, I may should be disappointed with this result. There are many reasons to disagree to this opinion. First it is obvious that the concurrence was much harder than last year in Duisburg. For example Fernando Pimenta POR, Adam van Koeverden CAN, Cyrille Carré FRA and even World Champion Josef Dostal CZE didn’t start in the K1 in Duisburg. Everybody from this guys beat me in Moscow. For sure I also don’t forget my injury and illness that I had to fight with this season. Finally I just had 2 months of really good training before this Worlds, and I was able to achieve a good level again. And last I improved my personal best time. I know that in our sport it is very important to have perfect conditions for fast times, and this we sure found there in Moscow. So the times are not as important as in other sports. It’s a little sad, that my race in the B-Final was not very good, otherwise I could come even closer the 3:30. So my conclusion, I am pretty happy with all the solid races I did and I take the 13th place as a gift after the most difficult season in my career.
I try hard to forget that I also raced the 5000m race, because it was definitely the worst 5km in my life. But I did it and what can I say, it was just bad. I did a lot of wrong decisions, I didn’t have the energy you need to have and I also had some bad luck. I was close to give up this race, but there was something in my brain that told me to finish the race. Whatever this something was, I sometimes hate it, but it is also the impulse of my motivation and so I kind of love it. Finally I finished 20th and what makes me more sad than this result is the rumour that this probably was the last 5000m race at World championships. I really hope this is not true and if it is true, I hope they listen to all us athletes who love this special race and change their mind.
I only can make compliments, they made everything for us athletes. I liked the venue a lot and also the spectators seemed to be fair and cheered for everybody. There were some discussions about politics before and during the competition and I am thankful that we had no boycott. I absolutely understand the discussion and I also think it is correct to discuss about it, but finally we are a sport of great friendships and low salary and it would be wrong to penalize us hard working athletes. There is also an interview about this thematic in German from the „Aargauer Zeitung“. If you are interested to read you can do with this link.
My plans for the next weeks are not all very clear. I won’t do too much of paddling and gym because my arm need some more rest now. Sure I will do some sport because at 6th/7th September the Swiss Championships will take place in Rapperswil. I also need to invest some time in school because I missed some days because of training and competition. As well now it’s time to make more plans for the upcoming season, which I am already looking forward a lot.
I have some nice links for you as well, first a big thank you to my Friend Michael Reber, which made the news there in a funny way. All his clips on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/MRPFILMS
You also can find full races on Youtube here are they:
1000m B-Final 36’23“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boYVbhuXMZA
1000m Semifinal: 2h 38’54“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuwP0qd_PhY
5000m Final: 3h 09’41“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnfx4XSaJvY
Results:
K1 Men 1000m
1. Josef Dostal CZE 3:25.092
2. Miroslav Kirchev BUL 3:26.409
3. René Holten Poulsen DEN 3:26.482
13. (Place 4 in Final B) Fabio Wyss SUI 3:30.724
K1 Men 5000m
1. Ken Wallace AUS 20:12.981
2. Max Hoff GER 20:14.004
3. Cyrille Carré FRA 20:14.562
20. Fabio Wyss SUI 22:34.529
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