Dear Asian Canoe Family,

 

It is truly an honour to be elected as the President of the Asian Canoe Conferation. For the past years, the development of canoe has been accelerating in Asia in various perspectives of the sport. Fast growing forms of canoeing like Stand Up Paddling have been promoted while the traditional ones are still prospered and exciting. I am very confident that for the next 4 years canoeing in Asia will be even more successfully developed and promoted.

 

Making Asia well-known in all aspects of canoe, strong bond and teamwork from all of us are much needed. Not only focusing on elite sports and to create best athletes, but we need our utmost attention to the environment that can support our athletes as well, which includes coaching workshop, high-performance training Camp, and well-prepared canoeing competition events.

 

We need to make these kinds of events wide spread throughout our continent. We need to create Sport Mass in the first step. Then, Sport Mass will not only lead to Sport for Excellence, but it will also lead to prosperity in the region. Moreover, we shall work harder on the cooperation between the ACC and boat suppliers, in order to make canoeing more accessible to communities in our region. With this plan and our beautiful continent, I believe that Asia will be the world canoe hub in the next few years.

 

To achieve all the above mentioned, I need our close cooperation. We do need to work as a family to make canoeing prosper in our region, and then to make Asian canoe more well-known in the world.

 

 

Thank you.

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Sincerly, 

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Chainarong Charoenruk