On June 8th the Dolomiten-Rodeo took place in Lienz. After some really heavy rainfall 2 weeks earlier it almost looked like there was not going to be an event: the playspot "Drauwalze" had changed quite a bit.
But Thomas Zimmermann and the organisationsteam decided to make the event (this was really important for the Austrian Kayak Freestyle Championship, because Graz had already been cancelled due to a destroyed Radetzky-Wave).
Only few paddlers found their way there, though quite well known ones: Ruling World Champion James "Pringle" Bebbington, twice Vice-Worldchampion Peter Csonka, many times Austrian Champion Marcel Bloder and few other international kaykaers.
Here are a few impressions (all pictures taken by Jakob Stadlbauer on my camera - thank you very much Jakob!):
Paddlers: Katya Kulkova, Lucie Horka, Nina Csonkova, James Bebbington, Marcel Bloder, Matt Cooke, Martin Koll, Jan Spindler and myself.
This was the first Competition where I managed to get onto the finals! It was quite amazing for me. Made the 6th place overall and came second in this first run of the Austrian Kayak Freestyle Championship behind Marcel Bloder. The overall winner was James Bebbington before Martin Koll and Matt Cooke.
The afterparty was great - as always in Lienz!
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