2012 ICF World Cup Finals - Pigeon River

The finals at the 2012 ICF Canoe Freestyle World Cup at the Pigeon River were insanely intense with fierce competition amongst the leaders. Across all disciplines, the athletes battled for the top three spots. 

In the Women's finals, Claire O'hara and Emily Jackson were the top two contenders and went at it all the way to the final ride. Nina Csonkova was within striking distance but ended up flushing out of the hole. Claire pulled out the win with 586 points as her final score. 

Women' K1 Results:

The Jr Men's class had Brenn Orton and Hunter Katich going at it as the two to beat. While Hunter ended up getting a 900+ points, Brenn scored a 1000 point ride to take the victory. He even did an impressive victory lap with some sick combinations. Also to note, Jordan Poffenberger is getting better and better at K1 although he is a C1 kayaker first. He pulled off an impressive third place finish. 

Jr Men's K1 Results:

In the C1 class, Seth Chapelle, Jordan Poffenberger and Dane Jackson battled it out for the top three places. Jordan and Seth did not do as well as they could (can pull off 800 point runs) and Dane ended up winning with a 633 point ride. 

Men's C1 Results: 

The Squirt Class was a blast with the traditional squirt boats and playboats competing together. The way that the rules are setup with mystery multipliers, etc it is almost impossible for a playboat to win but man they put on a show. The flatwater routines were downright amazing with Tomas from Poland throwing down! Unfortunately Clay hurt his shoulder the day before but still pulled out a second place finish behind Dane. 

Men's Squirt Results: 

In the men's OC1 class, Seth Chapelle had some good rides and took first place by a hair! Jordan Poffenberger came in second with only 1 point separating their final scores.

Men's OC1 Results: 

The men's K1 final was all out war with the top spots changing places with every ride. Pringle had a 920 on his first ride followed by Stephen Wright with a 860, Jaquime Fontane with a 1006, Peter Csonka with a 1180 and Dane with a 1103. Second rides had Stephen at 953, Jaquime with a 1160 and Peter pulled off a 1200 with Tricky Woos and Lunar Orbits both ways. Dane then came back on fire with some HUGE air on his hard moves and moved into first with 1375.

For his final ride, Peter Csonka came out with an impressive flurry of moves. He is a big guy at 204 lbs and while he didn't get huge air, he pulled out the handbook of tricks and got a 1,416 point score! Dane then came out for his final run and again was on fire. He tore up every move with some huge air and ended up closely mirroring his second run and had 10 seconds left.  He attempted a Lunar Orbit twice to seal the deal but got flushed out both times and ended up with 1,380 points. Only 30 points behind Peter. 

Men's K1 Results: 

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