Tamas Buday Sr - Hungary
In a career that spans more than four decades, Tamas Buday Sr. has devoted his life to sprint canoeing as an athlete, coach and mentor.
Organisation
In the right column, or at the bottom for mobile, you can choose between: the WPA Academy, our Partners, the WPA Team, the awards, the different paddlesports and federations.
Touring & Expedition
Incredible feats of human paddle endeavour on rivers (Canadian canoe, kayak, raft) and oceans (sea kayak, SUP, surfski, outrigger).
Ursula Andrews Afonso - British / South African
An extraordinary lifetime in paddlesports; ex-club Committee Member, fundraiser, exams writer, a paddler's 'dream' mother.
Vladimir Parfenovich - Belarusian
Vladimir Parfenovich will go down in history as one of the most successful canoe sprint paddlers having won a combined total of 12 Olympic and World Championship titles.
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