International whitewater elite meets in Austria for adidas Sickline Kayak Worlds

adidas Sickline 2010

30.09.-03.10.2010, Oetztal (Austria)

For the forth time in a row, the adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Champion takes place at the legendary “Wellerbrücke” river section in Austria’s Ötztal Valley. Between the 30th of September and the 3rd of October, the best whitewater kayakers on the globe will meet in Tyrol’s longest alpine valley to snatch the much sought-after 2010 world champion belt.

Olympic champion Alexander Grimm won the gold medal in a thrilling final last year. Grimm finished only 68 hundreds of a second ahead of New Zealand’s Mike Dawson and Jakobus Stenglein from Germany. Over 100 top kayakers from twenty-two countries had travelled to Austria to compete for world championship honours on one of the last non-adjusted whitewater rivers of the Alps.