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Sept 20, 2002 We are coming back
First, the linkpage is completely redone, and more updates are coming.
We have now decited to consentrate more to the international canoeing, putting the sport in Finland on the backgroung.
We hope to have all requests and ideas about the future content of our website sent to us by e-mail, so we can serve all of you better.
June 9, 2002 Sorry for the lack of updates
Due to obligatory military service, and racing with Team Finland I haven't had much time to maintain our internet-pages. I have decided to use that little time for the Finnish version (can be found in the web-address www.ratamelonta.net), which has maybe 60% of our visitors. Decision was hard, but inevitable. I have many updates in my mind, and it's sure they will come real, but it will take some time. For those who can or want to try to understand finnish I recommend to take look at the www.ratamelonta.net. We will be back someday!
Heikki Ritvos - the main webmaster of sprintkayak.com
Jan 25, 2002 Palmroth won Finnish ergometer championships
Lauri Palmroth became a new finnish ergometer champion last Sunday in Ruovesi. Last year's winner Jussi Wallin was 2nd.
Results
Jan 12, 2002 World TOP list
Jochen Lenz has made a top list of the best winner times in ICF-events since 1975
TOP2001.pdf
Jan 11, 2002 Site finaly updated
Sorry for the long break in updating pages. Now we have couple of new links. Hope next update won't take this long...
Sep 14, 2001 75 more paddlers will be taken to Athens 2004
In negotiations with International Olympic Committee ICF has managed to have 75 more athletes in the next Olympics in Athens 2004. Sprint racing has 12 and slalom 4 disciplines in the olympic program. It is still unknown how the extra athletes will divide between the different disciplines.
(source: Finnish Canoeing Federation Web page)
Sep 1, 2001 International Competition Calendar 2002 Flatwater Racing 
Aug 30, 2001 Finnish placements in Poznan.  
Men: 
Kimmo Latvamaki, K-1: 200m - 5th, 500m - 6th 
Mikko Keso - Kalle Mikkonen, K-2: 500m - 9th 
Panu Kanniainen - Mikko Keso, K-2: 200m - 6th 
Lauri Palmroth - Jani Krappe - Pete Pitkanen - Marko Vasenius, K-4: 200m - 9th 
Women: 
Jenni Honkanen, K-1: 200m - 8th 
Anne Rikala, K-1: 500m - semifinal 
Jenni Honkanen - Filippa Sjoberg, K-2: 500m - 10th (1st in B-final) 
Anne Rikala - Filippa Sjöberg, K-2: 200m - 15th (6th in B-final) 
Aug 24, 2001 Latvamaki and Keso - Mikkonen made it to the finals in 500m in Poznan.  
Kimmo Latvamaki was 2nd in his semifinal in K-1 500m, and Mikko Keso - Kalle Mikkonen were also 2nd in theirs in K-2 500m. Both made it to the finals. 
Women's K-2 Jenni Honkanen - Filippa Sjöberg just slightly disqualified from A-final being 5th in semi-sinal. 
Aug 22, 2001 World Championships in Poznan will begin tomorrow.  
Official site 
TV-timetable, Eurosport 
Team Finland
Aug 14, 2001 Tight races in Finnish K-4 (+ K-2 5000m) championships in Ruovesi August 11-12.
RKP Ruovesi (Lauri Palmroth - Kimmo Lavamäki - Pentti Sahi - Marko Vasenius) won Merimelojat from Helsinki (Panu Kanniainen - Mikko Keso - Ilkka Ritvos - Heikki Ritvos) by 0.36sec in 200m, and by 0.28sec in 500m. RKP won also K-4 1000m, while Merimelojat celebrated in K-4 5000m (this time with line up Kimmo Harikoski - Ilkka Ritvos - Tuomas Piiroinen - Heikki Ritvos). In K-2 5000m Jaakko and Juha Selivaara from Ahlainen beat Kimmo Harikoski and Ilkka Ritvos from Merimelojat with their good spurt before the finnish line. 
KaMe from Kangasala dominated women's K-4 distances
Click here for the results
July 26, 2001 * Kimmo Latvamäki won 4 gold medals in Finnish Championships in Lahti. Results 
* Jari Väkiparta won Finnish Marathon Championships.Results 
* Results from European Flatwater Championships. Finns didn't participate due to the national championships held in the same time. 
* Links updated. 
July 10, 2001 Finns did well in the Worl Cup 4 in Copenhagen a week ago winning 6 medals and total 14 placements in the finals. Click here for the summary of the best placements
June 18, 2001 Some results from national race in Rauma.
June 13, 2001 Site's outlook slightly changed. Classified Ads -section added on the pages.
May 27, 2001 Kaukajarven Ymparimelonnat, Tampere.    
Finnish season opening and selection regatta for World Cup was held yesterday. Click here for the results.
May 23, 2001 Pages updated:   
* New photos: Hannu Kaukola playing Canoe-polo with a sprint kayak   
* Nordic and Estonian Canoeing Federations added in the links   
* New photos on Heikki's page
May 14, 2001 Finns' season started well   
Mikko Keso and Kalle Mikkonen were 4th in K-2 200m and 500m in World Cup 2 in Seville last weekend (May 11-13), Anne Rikala was 6th in womens K-1 200m.   
Kimmo Latvamäki won K-1 200m and was 2nd in K-1 500m in international regatta in Hazewinkel,  Belgium ( May 4-6 )
April 14, 2001 Hannu Kaukola joins the site   
Hannu Kaukola has joined the sprintkayak.com-team. Hannu has allready been one of the main forces behind the site and now his personal page is added here. It's located in the address sprintkayak.com/hannu .
April 7, 2001 New remarkable sponsorship-deal    
Noitatieto Oy, a Finnish softwarehouse, will be supporting Heikki and Ilkka Ritvos this season. New deal will cover a remarkable part of their training and competeting costs.
Mar 23, 2001 Training-section opened    
It will be includind all kind of information about training and coaching. Smaller updates on other parts of the site.
Mar 10, 2001 New address: sprintkayak.com    
We have now own domain name for this site. There have been also other smaller changes on the site: Training-section which will be opened in near future, and Articles-section where will be for exemple interviews and reports from regattas. Also links have been updated.   

Interview with Kimmo Latvamaki   
Hannu Kaukola interviewed Finnish olympic paddler Kimmo Latvamaki 
 

March 5, 2001 Jussi Wallin Finnish champion in ergometer racing.   
Finnish ergometer championships were held last Saturday (March 3) in Ruovesi. Results.
March 2, 2001 The personal pages uptated for new season.   
Heikki's page changed totally, all the pages have now new addresses:   
Tuomas Piiroinen -   www.flatwater.cjb.net/tuomas   
Heikki Ritvos -  www.flatwater.cjb.net/heikki   
Ilkka Ritvos -  www.flatwater.cjb.net/ilkka
Feb 27, 2001  Links updated
Feb 12, 2001 Some small improvements on the site
Feb 11, 2001 The photos are back again
Feb 6, 2001 Pictures of new boats! 
Plastex has released the first pictures of their new boats. Check them on Plastex's homepage
Pictures of new Nelo K-1 Scorpion can be found on their Swedish representative's page.
Jan 27, 2001 Results are back (photos are still lacking)
Jan 21, 2001 The site is now back. 
The pages on server were destroyed couple of weeks ago. Fortunately, everything was also on a harddrive and site is back again. The site is still lacking results and photos which will be restored later.
Dec 7, 2000  Page updated: 
- Calendar is now on its own page 
- Results-section improved
Dec 3, 2000 Page updated: 
- General information-section is prepared. 
- Some pages (mainly results) which were only in Finnish are now translated into English.
Oct 16, 2000 More photos from Finnish Championships.  

International race in Ruovesi, men's results.  
  
Finnish Calendar 2001: 
Mar 3 Ergometre Championships Ruovesi
May 26 Pihla-cup 1 and Kaukajärven ympärimelonta Tampere
Jun 3 Sprint Ruovesi
Jun 7 Pihla-cup 2 Rauma
Jun 30 Marathon Championships, K-1 Eura
Jul 14 Aluemestaruuskilpailut, K-2, K-4 Tampere
Jul 20-22 Flatwater Championships, K-1, K-2 Lahti
Jul 27-29 Junior Championships Lahti
Aug 11-12 Flatwater Championships, K-4, K-2 Ruovesi
Aug 18 Marathon Championships, K-2 Pietarsaari
  
International Flatwater Calendar 2001: 
April 13 - 15 Flatwater World Cup 1 Gainesville (USA)
May 11 - 13 Flatwater World Cup 2  Sevilla (ESP)
June 15 - 17 Flatwater World Cup 3 Mantes la Jolie(FRA)
June 29 - July 01 Flatwater World Cup 4 Copenhagen (DEN)
July 13 -15 Flatwater World Cup 5 Zagreb (CRO)
July 13 - 15 European Sprint Racing Milan (ITA)
Aug 22-26 Flatwater Racing World Championships for Seniors Poznan(POL)
Sept 07-09 Flatwater Racing World Championships for Juniors Curitiba(BRA)
 

Octr 4, 2000 The Finnish Championships results - page repaired
Sept 15, 2000 Guestbook added
Sept 5, 2000 The results of Finnish K-2 marathon championships.
Sept 1, 2000 The Finnish Championships part 1 (most K-1 and K-2 races); results  and some photos, 
added some photos from marathon also.
Aug 22, 2000 Finnish Championships, part 2 (mainly K-4) 12.-13. August, Tampere. Results. 
  
Finnish Junior Championships, 4.-6. August, Lahti. Results.
July 11, 2000 Finnish Marathon Championships. Results. 
Latvamäki 4h in men's and Honkanen 4th in women's 200m in European Championships in Poznan.
July 2, 2000 The results of Marjaniemi-nationals. 
More results of the year 1999 added in the result archives.
May 28, 2000 The results of Kaukajärven Ympärimelonta.
Apr 28, 2000 Calendar 2000: (some days may change) 
 
27.5.-28.5. Kaukajärven ympärimelonta Tampere
1.-2.6. Sprinttikilpailu + 2000m Ruovesi
1.7. Marjaniemen kansalliset Helsinki
8.-9.7. SM-maraton osa 1 Turku
23.7. GP-kilpailut Rauma
28.-30.7. SM-rata osa 1 Lahti
4.-6.8. SM-rata 18- ja 20-v,  nuorisomestaruus Lahti
12.13.8. SM-rata osa 2 Tampere
2.9. SM-maraton osa 2 Tampere
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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