It can be spoken of crisis with capital letters: of 13 member countries is passed to 9, but is, the absence of Dionisio the fact that guarantees more this crisis.

Without Dionisio the Festival of the Canoes, no longer is festival, is achieved "to improve" the competitive part therefore the reins takes them the Confederacy, but that year there is not during the parade the classical mythology of the Sella, neither the exit in Verse, not even the Hymn of Asturias. The gunshot at the outset carries out it this year the Asturian painter Paulino Vicente.

In the competitive plan the Spanish couples leave with the stole of favorite, they gain Esteban Celorrio and Javier Sanz with 1 h 18 min. 24 seg., the figure appears of Herminio Menéndez (considered the best Spanish canoeist of the history) that along with Ramón Menéndez remain in second place.