Winners 2018 World Paddle Awards Announced
The 2018 World Paddle Awards have been announced, celebrating the best and most remarkable performances in paddlesport over the past year.
The 2018 World Paddle Awards have been announced, celebrating the best and most remarkable performances in paddlesport over the past year.
Laurence Vincent Lapointe from Canada presented the 20128 Academy Award
With winning the 2018 Sportswoman of the Year award for the second time Jessica Fox is now the most awarded athlete at the World Paddle Awards. In 2014 the Academy selected her for the Academy Award and last year she was presented the 2017 Sportswoman award in Silkeborg, Denmark.
Fernando Pimenta from Portugal is the fifth Sportsman of the Year at the World Paddle Awards after Hank McGregor (2014), Rene Holten Poulsen (2015), Curtis McGrath (2016) and Peter Kauzer (2017).
They pulled out the win in the midst of intense emotional turmoil following the sudden death of teammate Fiete Junge on the eve of the 2018 World Championships.
Widely recognized as two of the best whitewater kayakers in the world, Aniol and Gerd Serrasolses have spent years pushing the limits at the forefront of progression in the sport.
Claudia Van Wijk has lived and breathed the world of white-water kayaking since she was born. Growing up on the riverbanks of Ontario, Canada, she was paddling down rapids in the front of a double Klepper-Foldboot by the age of three.
Ottilie Robinson Shaw paddles well beyond her years and is redefining what is possible in junior women’s freestyle.
Since 2004, Joe Mornini and Team River Runner have been helping connect and create healing opportunities for wounded veterans by putting a paddle in their hands.
Film maker and adventurer Olaf Obsommer from Germany, and Czech Daniel Stach tied in the Media Professional of the Year category. It’s the first time there’s been a tie for any World Paddle Award.