Nick Troutman report:

Well the 2009 Freestyle Kayak World Championships are over. We had 5 days of narrowing down the classes to find the top of the top to compete for the title. It was an amazing day anyone competing or watching. The crowd was huge with a couple thousand people watching cheering and roaring, it was really loud. There were TV cameras everywhere, live footage on TV’s all over the event, and a Big Screen to watch on the banks of the river. There was music blaring, and excitement in the air.

For the finals you could feel the excitment of everyone wanting to see who would step up and take the title. In OC1 it was USA’s Jeremy Laucks, C1 was Great Britians David Bainbridge, for the Jr. Women non other than Noria Newman from France, Jr. Men USA’s Jason Craig proudly won every single heat showing that he truly wanted it, the K1 Women were all fighting for it but my beautiful wife Emily Jackson took home the gold, and in the K1 Men there was a stacked heat of close friends but I was lucky enough to take the title for Canada.

It was a great day and truly a great event. Simon the event organizer had planned to put on the best World Championships ever, and I think it was obvious to everyone that he achieved his goal.

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