Buenos resultados: The Irish Team have paddled consistently well in the challenging class IV conditions at the 27th  Wildwater Racing World Championships being held on the Noguera Pallaresa at Sort, Catalunya, Spain. Over the past few days the schedule has been shredded as floods have decimated the sprint course and seen debris going down the river for the past two days leading to the cancellation of the team race and a new sprint course being proposed.

Prior to the flooding the C1 team of Keith McGuirk and Conor Healy (both WWKC) performed well finishing 20th and 21st respectively. Keith was 1.45 off the winner, Emil Milihram (Cro) who finished in 20.31 in a raging torrent of almost 80 cumecs. Conor was competing in his first senior championship and was just over 20 seconds behind multiple National Champion, Keith.

Our Mens Kayaks, Cillian Duggan and John Gallagher (SLCC) took 47th and 60th place in a field of 65 paddlers representing 31 countries. First across the line was Loic Vynisale (FRA) in a time of 19.02 with Achim Overbeck (GER) taking silver with Slovenian World Cup winner Nejc Znidarcic in bronze. In Women's Kayak, Liz Shouldice followed up on her superb performances down under where she took a bronze in a World Cup race in Tasmania, last November, to take 16th place, just a minute off the winner in a field of 28 paddlers. Alke Overbeck (GER), sister of silver medallist in Men's K1 Achim,  completed the 6.6k in a time of 19.01 with silver and bronze awarded to British paddlers Hannah Brown and Jessica Oughton, the latter a multiple Liffey Descent veteran.

Due to injury to Tadhg MacIntyre the C1 paddlers were denied an opportunity to race team event for the first time at this level. Jim Healy has been liasing with the local paddler and race director Aleix Salvat Faurat where our team have been afforded an Irish welcome. The Sprint race is scheduled for Sat. 12th of June. Results are online at  www.sort2010.org