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Zachary Zwanenburg is Looking Forward To The

World Kayaking Championships in Ottawa

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rest is history. kayaking: slalom and freestyle. for the worlds,” says Zwanenburg.
By Jordan Todd
Slalom kayaking is a race. Freestyle
Zwanenburg hasn’t competed in Zwanenburg has actually made
t just 19 years old, Cornwall’s any events recently. His focus has kayaking is a 45-second run where the national team in C1 kayaking; a
AZachary Zwanenburg is already you do as many tricks as you
mostly been on training on the Ottawa style he’s never actually competed in
a member of Canada’s national River, the site of this year’s world can. Zwanenburg does both, but for a big event. “It’s the same boat,
kayaking team, and he’s been busy championships from Aug. 30 to Sept. he’s competing in freestyle in the except you’re kneeling in it and you
preparing to compete in the upcoming upcoming world championships.
5. “Me and a few other members of have a canoe paddle,” he explains.
world championships in Ottawa.
the national team get out and paddle Zwanenburg has one event coming “Everything’s the same except for
Kayaking is a family thing for together,” he says. “We take videos up before the world championships: that.”
Zwanenburg. His father did some as and we use those to all coach each Montréal en Eau-Vive. “This year It’s also way harder, says
a kid, so the whole family got into other.” it will probably be quite more of an Zwanenburg. But he looks forward
it. Eventually he tried competitive There are two kinds of competitive international event, seeing as there are to the challenge.
kayaking, really enjoyed it, and the a lot of Europeans and people training

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