Montgomery Whitewater prepares for world canoe races
Montgomery Whitewater is hosting the 2026 ICF Canoe Slalom World Ranking Spring Races, and you’re invited to watch.
The event, happening this weekend, will bring together Olympic athletes, Team USA competitors and rising international talent as they compete for world ranking points on Montgomery Whitewater’s Olympic standard competition channel.
The competitors hope to see a crowd cheering them on.
“Actually in 2024, for our first of two Olympic selection races, it was a really incredible crowd. We had a wonderful audience here cheering on all of the athletes as we race for Olympics spots, so it’s just a super awesome atmosphere. We love coming here. It’s a lot of fun. It’s nice to have a new city and to get to experience the community,” Casey Eichfeld, a four-time Olympian for Canoe Slalom USA told Action 8 News.
“It’s often you going to Australia or New Zealand or going to South America, but within the first year this place being open, 2023, 2024 we actually had a winter training camp here through the winter holiday period, and so having this venue here has been really helpful for racers who perhaps who don’t quite have as much of a travel budget to go overseas,” ICF Canoe Slalom racer Alden Henrie said.
Montgomery Whitewater invites everyone to support the athletes as they prepare to meet elite paddlers from across the United States and around the world.
Events will take place tomorrow through Sunday and involve about 80 racers from the U.S., Canada and South America.
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