2013 May 17 17:20

Kayak-Canoe World Cup in Szeged, Hungary

Over the years I’ve been a regular visitor of the national rowing centre at Maty-er and have photographed kayak-canoe, a sport Hungary by the way excels in, quite a few times now. So last weekend at the 2013 World Cup on the river Tisza in Szeged, southern Hungary, I thought why not spend a few days photographing it. Here’s some of of what I saw.

Dannish Rene Holten Poulsen speeds up

Rene Holten Poulsen of Denmark competes during the K1 Men 1000m Semi-final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Germany's Max Hoff paddles

Max Hoff of Germany competes during the K1 Men 1000m Semi-final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Balint Gere celebrates

Balint Gere of Hungary celebrates his success in the of the K1 Men 1000m Semi-final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Joao Ribeiro and David Fernandes of Portugal

Joao Ribeiro and David Fernandes of Portugal compete during the K2 Men 1000m Semi-final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Paddle harder

A reptile swims in the water next to a kayak during the preliminaries of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

German K4 paddles hard

Lars Magne Ullvang (R), Eivind Andreas Vold (2nd R), Lars Hjemdal (2nd L) and Morten Minde (L) of Norway paddle during the K4 Men 1000m Semi-final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Ryan Dolan of USA

Ryan Dolan of USA competes during the K1 Men 500m Heat of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Simo Boltic and Marko Dragosavljevic of Serbia

Simo Boltic (R) and Marko Dragosavljevic (L) of Serbia celebrate their success during the K2 Men 500m preliminary of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 10, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Max Hoff of Germany celebrates

Max Hoff of Germany celebrates his victory during the K1 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Max Hoff of Germany and Aleh Yurenia of Belarus

The winner Max Hoff (R) of Germany and silver medalist Aleh Yurenia (L) of Belarus celebrate their victory during the K1 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Reydel Ramos Avila of Cuba

Reydel Ramos Avila of Cuba paddles during the C1 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Roland Kokeny and Rudolf Dombi of Hungary

Roland Kokeny and Rudolf Dombi of Hungary competes during the K2 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Anton Ryakhov and Ilya Medvedev of Russia

Anton Ryakhov and Ilya Medvedev of Russia react to placing second during the K2 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Roland Kokeny and Rudolf Dombi of Hungary

Roland Kokeny and Rudolf Dombi of Hungary competes during the K2 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Max Hoff of Germany

Max Hoff of Germany celebrates his victory during the K1 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Serbian K4 Milenko Zoric, Ervin Holpert, Aleksandar Aleksic and Dejan Terzic

Milenko Zoric, Ervin Holpert, Aleksandar Aleksic and Dejan Terzic of Serbia paddle during the K4 Men 1000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

K4 teams paddle hard

Participants paddle during the K4 preliminary round of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup

ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 11, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Cesar De Cesare of Ecuador

Cesar De Cesare of Ecuador paddles in the K1 Men 200m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 12, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Cesar De Cesare of Ecuador

Cesar De Cesare of Ecuador celebrates his victory in the K1 Men 200m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 12, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Alexander Dyachenko and Yury Postrygay of Russia

Alexander Dyachenko and Yury Postrygay of Russia react to winning in the K2 Men 200m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 12, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup

Participants compete during the K1 Women 5000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 12, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

Attila Vajda of Hungary

Attila Vajda of Hungary celebrates his victory in the C1 Men 5000m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 12, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com

René Holten Poulsen of Denmark

René Holten Poulsen of Denmark reacts placing fourth in the K1 Men 500m Final of the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary on May 12, 2013.
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com