Nordic Championship in Canoe polo 28th November at Fyrishov in Uppsala

Nordic Championship in Canoe polo 28th November at Fyrishov in Uppsala

Canoe polo Action games and great drama! Tackles are allowed! Two teams, two goals, one ball, all in the water, even with kayak and paddle a lot of physic! This sport will not pass anyone unnoticed. Canoe polo is a team sport. The players use their hands to pass the ball between each other and finally try to shout at the goal. It is a great opportunity to be able to tackle the person with the ball! The offence can be compared to basketball where you try to find open spots in the defence to be able to get close to the goal. Canoe polo is a game with a lot of speed and finesse where combination of canoe and team play is great. It is a lot of fight, action and physics play. Facts The pitch is 23*35 meter, the goal are 2 meter up in the air and is 1*1,5 meter. It s 5 players on the pitch per team and maximum 3 substitute. Playing time is 2*10 minutes with 3 minutes pause.

Nordic Canoe polo At the world championship 2010 both Sweden and Denmark s men ended top 12! Sweden 10 th and Denmark 12 th. Finland has earlier on done really well but has lately not been out playing internationally that much. Norway is the development country. This time it is the Nordic Championship for club teams that will compete. Sweden is dominated by the Isbrytarna (Icebreakers) from Luleå but the runner up Köping on the men side and Uppsala on the ladies side is always dangerous. The dark horse in the competition is Skovshoved that could be doing a lot of really great fights! This is only the second time the Nordic Championship is played and the first time the ladies class is played. Last year the winner was Silkeborg from Denmark after a very excited game and Luleå was the silver medallists and is now very determined to take revenge.

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Tid Match nr Team 1 Team 2 8.30 1 Köping Linköping 9.00 2 Skovshoved HiiPu 9.30 3 Isbrytarna D Uppsala 10.00 4 Linköping Isbrytarna 10.30 5 Köping Skovshoved 11.00 11.30 6 Linköping HiiPu 12.00 7 Isbrytarna Köping 12.30 8 Uppsala Isbrytarna D 13.00 9 HiiPu Isbrytarna 13.30 10 Skovshoved Linköping 14.00 11 HiiPu Köping 14.30 12 Isbrytarna Skovshoved 15.00 13 D1 H5 15.30 16.00 14 H1 H4 16.30 15 H3 H2 17.00 16 D2 H5 17.30 17 Bronsmatch herrar 18.10 18 Final herrar 18.50 19 Final damer 19.30 Medal ceremony

Team disposition men Köping Luleå kpf Isbrytarna 6 Viktor Söderqvist 1 Robert Harlin 11 Fredrik Lood 2 Erik Malmborg (k) 12 Michael Nordgren 3 David Rosendahl 15 Kalle Persson (k) 4 Mats Lindmark 28 Gustaf Persson 5 Johan Blomberg 69 Mikael Stranius 6 Marko Lassheikki 99 Robin Lood 8 Björn Andersson 13 Marcus Willander Skovhoved Roklub 1 Jacob Steglich- Andersen HiiPu 2 Peter Filholm 1 Rasmus Peterzens 3 Jonas Arnkjær 2 Mikko Mäkilä 4 Rudy Frederiksen 4 Antti Löppönen 5 Bertram Storr- 5 Jouni Lindgren Paulsen 6 Jerry Mansner 7 Marko Hämäläinen 8 Kasper Peterzens Linköping 9 Miikka Vesamäki 1 Anton Höglund 2 Joel Nåbo 4 Johannes Markström 5 Olov Johansson 7 Patrik Gart 9 Fredrik Helmfrid

Team disposition women Uppsala Luleå kpf Isbrytarna 1 Linda Andersson (k) 2 Åsa Christensen (k) 2 Cecilia Waxegård 3 Catherine Gracie 3 Ute Cappel 4 Eva Lindmark 4 Carolin Haglund 5 Ida Jansson 5 Emilia Danielsson 6 Virginie Aubert 6 Kristina Engdahl 8 Emma Serenander 7 Johanna Myrland

Kalle "Shrek" Persson, nr. 5 in Köping 27 years old and played polo for 17 year, 5 in the Swedish national team. He works as a machine electrician at Volvo. Kalle is interested in training, haunting, diving and fishing on the side of polo. He is an aggressive and strong player with a very good shoot. He is good with his paddle especially in defence Kalle is single. Marko Lassheikki, nr. 6 in Isbrytarna Marko is 28 and lives with his fiancé and daughter in Luleå. He speaks Finnish. His strengths are strong, excellent shooter, good understanding the game and difficult to scout. He was the best goal scorer of all players at the Europeans 2009. Works as a distribution technicians at Luleå Energi. Peter Filholm, nr 2 in Skovshoved Peter studies at the University of Copenhagen - Law, and started his second year this summer. Peter is the fast chasseur, which can start a contra very fast and put a team under a great pressure. Peter has Skovshoved best shot and is Skovshoveds top scorer in the Danish tournaments. Peter played for the Danish U21 national team as well.

Åsa Christensen, nr 2 in Isbrytarna Åsa is one of the most experienced ladies in Sweden. She played in the first national team in Sweden 2002 and has played for many years. She is a very good shooter and is unafraid. She is now 36 and has a daughter and a co-habiter. Works with disability sports. Linda Andersson, nr 1 in Uppsala Linda started paddling canoeslalom in 1993 she has played canoepolo in the national team in Sweden since 2002. She has a very good paddling skill, is the goalkeeper and the captain for the Uppsala team. She is now 30 and lives i Gävle and works with physiotherapy. Contact: Eva Lindmark, evakanotpolo@yahoo.se, +46 (0)70 665 0700 for all questions regarding the competition or any other canoe polo questions. Eva has played in the Swedish national team until 2005 and still playing in the club team Isbrytarna. Eva is the elite responsible person in Sweden and the media contact. She also works international within International Canoe Federation Polo committee.