After a not really satisfying World Cup in Duisburg with only Place 23 over 1000m but a strong 10th place in the big field over 5000m, I went back to hard training in Switzerland and Austria. After my Birthday in the middle of June, there waited a new experience for my Athletes Career. The European Games in Baku Azerbaijan. A total new competition in a for me unknown country. In total 6000 Athletes competed there in several sports. I was happy to be one of those athletes and sure wanted to show a staisfying race. I think I proved some improvement compared to my first races so far in this season. In a very windy and fast Semifinal there were missing 1.7 seconds for qualifying for the A-Final. In fact that my favourite conditions are something completely different I could live with that result. But as always in the first moment to miss out a good occasion it is always unsatisfying. In the B-Final I showed a solid performance in a very tight race which placed me in the first 15 for the first time in this year over the Olympic distance. I also participated in the mass start race over 5000m together with 30 other athletes. I started really good and hang out in the first group until a crash after 700 metres. I was pushed out from this group and tried my luck all alone. After the first turn I caught the helping wash of Miika Dietrich my Finnish mate from the Israel training camp. We worked together and built a chasing group with some others. I managed to show a good finish sprint and made sure another Top 10 Result over this distance with Place 9.
Baku was the last race before the very important World Championships in Milan from 19th to 23rd August. Like all the other athletes the time until Worlds is filled out with a lot of training. Right now I am training in Pusiano only 30 kilometres away from Milan. This summer I will be here a total of 4 weeks. The training conditions are almost perfect like always when our Swiss team is here. The first days here it was almost too hot to train, but the temperature went down a bit and now it is really agreeable. The training is hard as always and I am looking forward for the shorter trainings which follow in the next weeks. The World Championships in Milan seems to become the biggest Canoe/Kayak Event of all time with over 100 Nations and hopefully thousands of spectators. There will be definitely dozens Swiss Fans because it is so close. Milan is the first possibility to reach an Olympic Quota place and for that reason the most important competition for all the Paddlers in the last year. So it is for me and this gives some extra motivation in every training session!
The official website of the event is www.milan2015.com
And here are the latest results:
World Cup Duisburg (GER)
K1 1000m
- Max Hoff (GER) 3:30.354
- Josef Dostal (CZE) 3:32.040
- Rene Poulsen (DEN) 3:32.446
22.Fabio Wyss (4. im C-Finale) 3:38.444
K1 5000m
- Ken Wallace (AUS) 19:14.043
- Max Hoff (GER) 19:20.894
- Aleh Yurenia (BLR) 19:47.619
10. Fabio Wyss 20:39.048
European Games Baku (AZE)
K1 1000m
- Max Hoff (GER) 3:28.205
- Fernando Pimenta (POR) 3:28.421
- Rene Holten Poulsen (DEN) 3:28.863
15. Fabio Wyss 3:37.377
Resultate K1 5000m
- Max Hoff (GER) 20:01.864
- Fernando Pimenta (POR) 20:11.989
3. Cyrille Carre (FRA) 20:42.081
9. Fabio Wyss 21:32.391
