Shipley Wins Overall World Cup Title;
Haller Brothers Take Overall Silver
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OCOEE RIVER, Tenn. (Oct. 1) -- Scott Shipley, Poulsbo, Wash., 
proved that the Ocoee River is his domain by claiming his 
second International Canoe Federation Slalom World Cup 
overall title in three years, both coming on the river which 
will host the Olympic competition in just 10 months.

"Going into today, I did a little math, and I figured out 
where everyone had to be for me to win," Shipley said. "Then 
I saw that I had to win to get the overall, so I didn't even 
bother with second place."

Adding another highlight to the afternoon was the silver-
medal performance of the double canoe team of Fritz and Lecky 
Haller, Glencoe, Md., who earned the overall silver medal 
after taking the bronze in 1994.

Shipley posted a commanding 163.01 on the first of two runs 
down the boiling Ocoee Sunday afternoon, and it withstood 
several challenges during second runs to give him the gold 
medal for the race. A sixth-place finish by Austria's Manuel 
Koehler, the overall leader going into Sunday, and the 
failure of newly-crowned world champion Oliver Fix of Germany 
to make the finals opened the door, and Shipley stepped 
through to establish himself as one of the men to beat during 
Olympic competition in July.

The Haller brothers overcame a disastrous first run in which 
they were washed below a drop-off near the end of the 525-
meter course and missed three gates, adding 150 seconds in 
penalties to their times. They responded on their second run, 
posting a penalty-free 187.12 to pull into second behind 
Miroslav Simek and Jiri Rohan of the Czech Republic, who also 
claimed the overall title.

"I tip my hat to my bowman (Fritz)," said Lecky Haller. "He's 
paddled injured for three-quarters of the season. To reach 
this level the final race of the season is a tremendous boost 
for us. We were able to improve our overall standing from 
last year, which gives us a visible sign of progress and 
shows we're headed in the right direction."

In single canoe, Joe Jacobi, Atlanta, Ga., took fifth place 
in his first World Cup final since embarking on his career in 
singles after winning the Olympic gold medal in doubles canoe 
in Barcelona. Gareth Marriott of Great Britain, the 1992 
Olympic silver medalist, won Sunday's race to repeat as the 
overall title winner.

Lynn Simpson of Great Britain completed a sweep of the major 
whitewater events for the last two years with a win Sunday, 
successfully defending her 1994 World Cup title and 
supplementing her world crown, won on her home course in 
Nottingham, England, four weeks ago.

Though Sunday's event was the first on the Olympic venue, a 
different stretch of the Ocoee was the scene of Shipley's 
first overall World Cup title, in 1993, the first time an 
American had won the men's kayak Cup title.

Other U.S. finishes were Rich Weiss, Steamboat Springs, 
Colo., eighth in men's kayak; and Steve Holmes, Steamboat 
Springs, Colo., and Horace Holden, Bryson City, N.C., 10th, 
Steve Isenburg and Matt Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., 13th and Barry 
Kennon, Baton Rouge, La., and David Hepp, Pompano Beach, 
Fla., 14th, all in double canoe.


Ocoee Slalom Challenge
International Canoe Federation World Cup Final
Ocoee River, Tenn., Oct. 1, 1995
All results are final.

Men's Single Kayak
1, Scott Shipley, Poulsbo, Wash., 163.01. 2, Tomas Becker, 
Germany, 164.26. 3, David Ford, Canada, 167.28. 4, Ian Wiley, 
Ireland, 167.56. 5, Jochen Lettmann, Germany, 167.81. 6, 
Manuel Koehler, Austria, 167.96. 7, Fedja Marusic, Slovenia, 
168.91. 8, Rich Weiss, Steamboat Springs, Colo., 170.36. 9, 
Peter Nagy, Slovakia, 171.18. 10, Ian Raspin, Great Britain, 
174.37. 11, Michael Reys, Netherlands, 172.93. 12, Shaun 
Pearce, Great Britain, 174.37. 13, Tomas Abraham, Czech 
Republic, 175.29. 14, Jean-Michel Regnier, France, 179.52. 
15, Andraz Vehovar, Slovenia, 180.62.

Men's Double Canoe
1, Miroslav Simek and Jiri Rohan, Czech Republic, 184.36. 2, 
Fritz and Lecky Haller, Glencoe, Md., 187.12. 3, Krzysztof 
Kolomanski and Michael Staniszewski, Poland, 188.81. 4, Jiri 
Pollert and Jiri Pospisil, Czech Republic, 189.92. 5, Petr 
and Pavel Stercl, Czech Republic, 190.65. 6, Andre Ehrenberg 
and Michael Senft, Germany, 192.63. 7, Marek Jiras and Tomas 
Mader, Czech Republic, 192.94. 8, Francois LeTourneau and 
Benoit Gauthier, Canada, 193.89. 9, Gilles Lelievre and 
Jerome Daille, France, 197.36. 10, Steve Holmes, Steamboat 
Springs, Colo., and Horace Holden, Bryson City, N.C., 198.61. 
11, Stewart Pitt and Michael Millar, Great Britain, 201.99. 
12, Roman Vajs and Roman Strba, Slovakia, 204.61. 13, Steve 
Isenburg and Matt Taylor, Atlanta, Ga., 205.18. 14, Barry 
Kennon, Baton Rouge, La., and David Hepp, Pompano Beach, 
Fla., 211.97. 15, Andrzej Wojs and Slawomir Mordarski, 
Poland, 275.20.

Men's Single Canoe
1, Gareth Marriott, Great Britain, 175.50. 2, Martin Lang, 
Germany, 181.03. 3, Emmanuel Brugvin, France, 181.64. 4, 
Soeren Kaufmann, Germany, 182.28. 5, Joe Jacobi, Atlanta, 
Ga., 183.11. 6, Krzysztof Bieryt, Poland, 184.79. 7, Simon 
Hocevar, Slovenia, 186.12. 8, Justin Boocock, Australia, 
186.54. 9, Danko Herceg, Croatia, 186.83. 10, Mariusz 
Wieczorek, Poland, 187.37. 11, Patrice Estanguet, France, 
187.54. 12, Renato DeMonti, Italy, 187.87. 13, Carlo Faloci, 
France, 193.96. 14, Michal Martikan, Slovakia, 201.55. 15, 
Lukas Pollert, Czech Republic, 347.89.

Women's Single Kayak
1, Lynn Simpson, Great Britain, 183.07. 2, Anne Boixel, 
France, 187.46. 3, Myriam Fox, France, 187.75. 4, Stepanka 
Hilgertova, Czech Republic, 193.44. 5, Elena Kaliska, 
Slovakia, 199.48. 6, Barbara Nadalin, Italy, 196.18. 7, 
Dzintra Blouma, Latvia, 199.00. 8, Kordula Striepecke, 
Germany, 199.05. 9, Marcela Sadilova, Czech Republic, 199.48. 
10, Heather Corrie, Great Britain, 205.72. 11, Brigitte 
Guibal, France, 206.66. 12, Marcela Repova, Czech Republic, 
208.63. 13, Mia Farrance, Australia, 208.91. 14, Irena 
Pavelkova, Czech Republic, 209.42. 15, Kathryn Pigdon, Great 
Britain, 209.85.

Men's Single Canoe
1, Gareth Marriott, Great Britain, 62
2, Emmanuel Brugvin, France, 52
3, Danko Herzeg, Croatia, 47
4, Lukas Pollert, Czech Republic, 46
5, Martin Lang, Germany, 40
6, Carlo Faloci, France, 34
7, Patrice Estanguet, France, 32
8, Soeren Kaufmann, Germany, 30
9, Michal Martikan, Slovakia, 26
10, Simon Hocevar, Slovenia, 25

Men's Double Canoe Women's Single Kayak
1, Miroslav Simek and Jiri Rohan, Czech Republic, 75
2, Fritz and Lecky Haller, Glencoe, Md., 53
3, Petr and Pavel Stercl, Czech Republic, 46
4, Franck Adisson and Wilfrid Forgues, France, 45
5, Andreas Ehrenberg and Michael Senft, Germany, 36
6, Jaroslav Pospisil and Jaroslav Pollert, Czech Republic, 33
7, Kryzysztof Kolomanksi and Michael Staniszewski, Poland, 31
  Marek Jiras and Tomaz Mader, Czech Republic, 31
9, Francois LeTourneau and Benoit Gauthier, Canada, 30
10, Roman Strba and Roman Vajs, Slovakia, 25

Men's Single Kayak
1, Scott Shipley, Poulsbo, Wash., 57
2, Thomas Becker, Germany, 55
  Manuel Koehler, Austria, 55
4, Fedja Marusic, Slovenia, 44
5, Andraz Vehovar, Slovenia, 41
6, Oliver Fix, Germany, 40
7, Ian Wiley, Ireland, 32
8, Pierpaolo Ferrazzi, Italy, 29
9, David Ford, Canada, 24
  Shaun Pearce, Great Britain, 24

Women's Single Kayak
1, Lynn Simpson, Great Britain, 70
2, Stepanka Hilgertova, Czech Republic, 62
3, Anne Boixel, France, 46
4, Kordula Striepecke, Germany, 41
5, Elisabeth Micheler-Jones, Germany, 35
6, Irena Pavelkova, Czech Republic, 32
7, Elena Kaliska, Slovakia, 29
  Marcela Sadilova, Czech Republic, 29
  Brigitte Guibal, France, 29
10, Myriam Fox, France, 25