Fuksa is in great form on the canoe this year, he clearly rules at home, and he is also undefeated in the World Cups. And that both on the Olympic kilometer course and on the 500m, which he returned to this year at the expense of the double canoe with his brother Petr the younger.
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He tried the five hundred at the national championship in Račice and then set off for Canada. “I wanted to test my race pace again and go. The form is escalating. I hope to bring home a medal. Of course I would like to win and I believe that if I feel good about the rides, I can stand very high in the rankings,” hopes Martin Fuksa.
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Josef Dostál would like to expand his double-digit collection of world medals.Photo: kanoe.cz
On the other hand, the four-time Olympic medalist Josef Dostál had a slower start to the season, who changed his coach before the World Championships and is now led by Pavel Davídek. He traveled to Dartmouth ahead of time.
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“I was a little worried about the time shift, and it turns out that I was right. But I manage to ride fast times in training, I’m excited about that,” reports Dostál, a ten-time World Championship medalist.
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“I would like to add an eleventh medal, and if everything goes well, it can be a twelfth as well,” believes the kayaker, who will compete in the 500 and 1000 races and will not be aiming for an Olympic medal in the double kayak with Radek Šlouf.
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On it, the pair Jakub Špicar, Daniel Havel and Šlouf won the nomination, together with them and with Jakub Zavřel, he will ride in the traditionally strong Czech four-kayak crew.
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| Czech nomination |
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| Men |
| C1 500 and 1000 m: M. Fuksa, K1 500 and 1000 m: Dostál, C1 200 m: P. Fuksa, K4 500 m: Špicar, Šlouf, Zavřel, Havel, K2 500 m: Špicar, Havel, C2 500 and 1000 m: Hrabal, Zalubil, K1 200 m: Sobíšek, K2 1000 m: Kukačka, Vorel. |
| Women |
| K1 500 and 1000 m: A. Paloudová, K4 500: Zárubová, B. Betlachová, Sobíšková, Házová, K2 500 m: Zárubová, Betlachová. |
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