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Shuttle bus timetable French Canoeing Championships
Monday 24 July at 7pm
PLACE MARCEL GAIMARD - PARADE OF CLUBS BY REGION
Tuesday 25 July
Single and double canoe
8am-12pm: Qualifying 1
2pm-5pm: Qualifying 2
Wednesday 26th July
Kayak
9am-12.30pm: Qualifying 1 Men
2.30pm-4.45pm: Women's 1 Qualifying
Thursday 27 July
Kayak
9.30am-12.15pm: Qualifying 2 Men
2pm-4pm: Qualifying 2 Women
Friday 28 July
Finals all categories
9.30am-12pm: Finals - Women's Canoe Tandem, Women's Kayak, Men's Single Canoe
1.30pm-4pm: Finals - Mixed and Women's tandem canoe, Men's kayak, Women's single canoe
18h : 6pm: Podiums - Place Marcel Gaimard
Saturday 29th July
8am-12.15pm: Team races
6pm: Podiums - Base eau-vive, left bank
Saturday 29th July
3pm-5.15pm: Time Trial
Sunday 30th July
8am-12pm: 32nd, 8th and quarter-finals
1.30pm-3.30pm: Semi-finals and finals
4pm: Podiums - White-water base, left bank
Friday 28 and Saturday 29 July
2pm to 5.30pm: Paddle, kayak, airboat... for children (over 8) and adults. Aquatic ability recommended, free of charge and no registration required.
8.30pm: "COOL BUS" concert
An internationally renowned pool: The competition takes place in Bourg Saint Maurice on the Haute-Isère, in a natural setting.
The Haute-Isère basin provides a magnificent competition setting in a natural environment that meets all the organisational and logistical requirements for top-level canoe-kayak events (the only basin where 3 World Championships have been held: 1969 - 1987 - 2002). It is renowned for its technical nature and has been described as "the most difficult in the world".
It's a race against the clock where competitors have to follow a course comprising 18 to 25 gates, coloured red or green. The aim is to pass between the gates without touching them, downhill for the green ones and uphill for the red ones. Each touch results in a penalty of 2 points, added to the time taken, which is converted into points (1 point = 1 second). Each race is run over 2 legs, which are added together.
Kayak cross is a combination of all the whitewater canoeing disciplines. Four competitors in four identical boats slide down a ramp more than two metres above the water.
This spectacular start is the prelude to a course in which each paddler tries to gain an advantage over his rivals. Athletes must negotiate gates upstream and downstream, and contact is allowed - adding to the thrills and excitement for spectators and canoeists alike.
Most races finish in around a minute, but times are not important. Whoever crosses the finish line first wins.
On the course, competitors have to perform a 360° turning manoeuvre in a set area.
+ 2 different types of boat:
Le Kayak : the kayaker sits on a low seat at the bottom of the boat with his legs in front.
Canoeing : The rider kneels in the bottom of the boat (on small wedges), with his buttocks resting against a 'bench'. Legs bent, feet back.
+ 2 different types of paddle:
Single or double canoe : Single paddle 
Kayak Monoplace : double paddle 
