The 2022 Micro Cup hosted in Palau during the weekend of October 21-23, 2022 by the Canoe Association of Palau, hosted over 100paddlers from Guam and Saipan for the three days outrigger canoe event. The first day was on Friday October 21st kicking off with V1 races on the 500m course at Meyuns Ramp venue. On Saturday October 22nd, a much exciting day for all V1’s finals and V6 races on the 500m course, where paddlers were competing for the best time on the course in the 1500m race with turns and 500m race on the straight away 500m course.
The last day of the race was on Sunday October 23rd, where long distance races on 10mile and 8mile course had the paddlers all excited to go full on power with great timing as a team to end the three-day outrigger canoe race. Most of the paddlers have been paddling together the past 22years and very familiar with each team’s strength and power as a team from their respective country. However, when Micro Cup comes to an end, it is all in the One Crew spirit as the paddlers come as Micronesians to share their paddling stories, their techniques and style to continue to improve themselves as paddlers and to plan for the next Micro Cup.
The paddlers – who most of them also paddled at the 2022 Mini Games in Saipan, are looking forward to see each other again in the 2023 Micronesian Games in RMI and 2023 Pacific Games in Solomon Islands where they will compete again against each other, but other countries around the region. For the 22 Micro Cup in Palau, the results are very close, but it also confirms that experience paddlers and regular paddlers practicing every day lead in the race.
View the article below:
https://islandtimes.org/22nd-year-micro-cup-concludes-successfully-with-over-100paddlers-competing-in-over-25-plus-races/
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