Szeged, located in Hungary's South Great Plain, has an unconditional affection for water; it is where the Rivers Tisza and Maros meet.

The ICF is proud to launch its Official Equipment Licensing Programme that will benefit all manufacturers and providers of canoeing equipment from recreational canoeing to elite competition level.

The ICF is excited to announce that is has secured a TV production company, Hit the Roof (HTR) to produce highlights of the Canoe Sprint and Canoe Slalom World Cups for 2009. HTR have extensive experience handling TV sport production for Wrestling, Archery and Universiade events.

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) Board of Directors, chaired by the ICF President Mr Perurena, met in Lausanne, Switzerland between 18 and 20 March 2009. <BR>

The ICF brought together all the leading coaches in Canoe Sprint and Canoe Slalom to discuss the state of Canoeing and how to develop the future of the sport. The Symposium was held 27 February to 1 March, in Warsaw, Poland hosted by the Polish Canoe Federation and sponsored by the Canoe boat manufacturer, Plastex.<BR>

The ICF is proud to finally unveil its newly designed logo for the first time to the public. The visually striking new logo will provide a consistent and distinct look for the Canoeing sport. It will reflect our identity, influencing our persona and the character of the ICF. The ICF will not discard its traditional logo, but the new one will be more ubiquitous.

The ICF made a site visit to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, near Halifax in Canada, last week to visit the site of the Canoe Sprint World Championships at Lake Banook that will take place on 12-16 August 2009.

Monaco, 4th August 2008 – The International Canoe Federation (ICF) today announced its partnership with the international organisation “Peace and Sport” based in Monaco to implement peace education programmes on the African continent.<BR>

The ICF Executive Committee has examined and accepted the Cook Islands Canoe Association (CICA) application to ICF membership.

Zagreb, Croatia – The Executive of the International Canoe Federation will recommend to the International Olympic Committee several revisions to the Olympic qualification system for the canoeing and kayaking events at the Beijing Olympic Games.

The ICF Board of Directors during their meeting in Madrid on October 23rd, 2003 elected the host National Federations and venues for the ICF World Championships up to 2010:

In accordance to the latest information received from Chinese Taipei Canoe association the following Asian Championships, which were supposed to be held in Taiwan, because of the outbreak disease of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) for protecting the athletes of being affected have been postponed until the SARS has completely subsided.

In accordance to the latest information received from Chinese Taipei Canoe association the following Asian Championships, which were supposed to be held in Taiwan, because of the outbreak disease of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) for protecting the athletes of being affected have been postponed until the SARS has completely subsided.

After thorough discussion with the ICF medical committee and consulting the health authorities including the WHO, which advise against travelling to Guangzhou at the moment, the Executive Committee has decided to cancel the slalom world cup in Guangzhou in May 2003.

Perth to Host 2005 Canoe Federation Marathon World Championship