They participate 40 canoes. The foreign couples due to that in the previous edition were surprised by the Sella they begin to be coached a week before the descent.

The Italians surprise with a technically different spade to the previously utilized, since in this occasion the spade is more cuts (2,24 mtros) and invested, for which the turn facilitated the task to row. Besides they incorporate a “pedaliera”, that facilitates even more the turns of the embarkation, due to that in them utilized was the canoeist situated behind who toward rotating the canoe, placing the spade in the water of the side that wanted to rotate. There is a before and an after this descent, since are continuous the incorporations to facilitate the descent that go incorporating.

The winning couple is the best adapted technologically, the Italians Albera and Preccerutti with its canoe “Italy”, with 1 h 45 min. 32 seg.