{"id":303,"date":"2024-05-31T10:38:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:46:44","slug":"the-history-of-ivrea-canoa-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/the-history-of-ivrea-canoa-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of Ivrea\u00a0Canoa\u00a0Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>IVREA CANOA CLUB &#8211; THE HISTORY<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Canoeing became popular in Ivrea at the end of the 1940s. Giulio Valzolgher, a dynamic<br \/>\nman full of passion, engaged his workmates to explore the new sport. Young daring people<br \/>\nstarted to dominate white water in the Dora Baltea river that had always inspired fear due<br \/>\nto the strength of the current and the cold temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Valzolgher achieved a challenging undertaking in 1952 together with Gianfranco Voltolina,<br \/>\na passionate colleague, descending the Dora Baltea and the Po rivers to Venice, paddling<br \/>\non a two-seater canoe for approximately 700 km. It was truly the beginning, with the<br \/>\npopularity of the canoeing challenge, the curiosity of many grew and the number of those<br \/>\nwho approached this new sport increased.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/The-history-of-Ivrea.jpg\" alt=\"The history of Ivrea\" width=\"1080\" height=\"698\"><\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s canoeing began its solid development in Ivrea. The first canoeing competition in Ivrea took place in 1956, and many followed in the following years. In 1959 the Ivrea-Trieste raid was held. In 1960, Ivrea Canoa Club entered the Italian Rowing Federation; in 1963 a native of Ivrea, Antonio Martinelli, took part in a World Championship for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes of Ivrea Canoa Club have won many Italian awards and participated in<br \/>\nnumerous European and international competitions, as well as the Olympics; some of the<br \/>\ncurrent club managers have become advisors to the Canoe Federation.<br \/>\nStill today, the club counts among its members and executives many national coaches,<br \/>\nnational and international technical directors, judges and referees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IVREA CANOA CLUB &#8211; THE HISTORY Canoeing became popular in Ivrea at the end of the 1940s. Giulio Valzolgher, a dynamic man full of passion, engaged his workmates to explore the new sport. Young daring people started to dominate white water in the Dora Baltea river that had always inspired fear due to the strength [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-303","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivreacanoaclub.info\/slalomivrea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}