All Starry & Striped Jay Kincaid, Brooke Winger and the band of other merry men and women from the U.S. dominated the Worlds. Day three was a full day of preliminary K1 men’s heats, with 120 men squaring off for the 35 quarterfinal positions. Even after the nine-hour cartwheel-to-flush extravaganza, 27 paddlers remained to compete the next morning, including key players such as Joey Hitchins, Steve Fisher and reigning world champion Eric Jackson (all of whom continued to quarterfinals). It’s a real advantage to be one of the last paddlers. These paddlers knew exactly the score they needed and went so far as to calculate exactly the moves they needed to perform to rack up enough points to qualify.
EJ goes huge in finals.
After four intense rounds of sudden- death finals. Jay Kincaid took the gold.
K1 Men Finals 1 Jay Kincaid 2 Andrew Holcombe 3 Steve Fisher 4 Eric Jackson 5 Billy Harris
K1 Women Finals 1 Brooke Winger 2 Deb Pinniger 3 Jutta Kaiser 4 Fiona Jarvie 5 Polly Green
K1 Junior Men 1 Rush Sturges 2 Pat Keller 3 Richard Chrimes
4 Peter Csonka 5 Michael Quinif
K1 Junior Women 1 Katerina Migadauová 2 Ali Wade 3 Hanna Farrar 4 Lianne Wagtho 5 Lena Schnoor
C1 Unisex 1 Bill McKnight 2 Luke Hopkins 3 Barry Kennon 4 Nicolas Sarazin 5 Morihiro Goto
OC1 Unisex 1 Stefan Pätsch 2 Andrew Bell 3 Joan Marc Pasques 4 Seth Chapelle 5 James Weir
Squirt Men 1 Brendan Mark 2 Masashi Kayakawa 3 Clay Wright 4 Toru Ishihara 5 Dustin Urban
Squirt Women 1 Deb O’Keefe 2 Motoko Ishida 3 Valerie Bertrand
“Oh say can you see...”
Brooke Winger, happy to be there.
I bumped into Eric “EJ” Jackson on the streets of Graz and asked if he was disappointed that Terminator III didn’t allow aerial moves. He told me to get my camera ready for his entry move in finals. Jackson had won every heat he entered. He was one of the few paddlers who looked to be in com- plete control, setting up each move with outstand- ing confidence. Going into the finals you’d ask any- body on the street who was the paddler to beat and they’d tell you it was “EJ from America.” On day six, as promised, EJ launched huge entry moves and landed a respectable fourth-place finish.
44 U.S. athletes, lots o’ medals.
2003 Fall 9
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