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Thursday, 01 July 2010 14:52 |
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In the coming months several international sports events will take place in Poznan. On the 17th of July the Poznan Porsche Open, an international tennis tournament, will be launched. It is a tournament of the ATP Challenger series with the prize pool of ? 125,000. One would have the possibility to watch the tennis players at the beautifully situated tennis courts in Lasek Golęciński (Golęciński Forest) ? about 3 kilometres west from the city centre. The winner of the tournament will be announced on the 25th of July.
August will be devoted to canoeing. During this month three international canoeing events will be organised on the regatta track on the Malta Lake. From the 14th to the 15th of August the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships will take place. A couple of days later, on the Malta Lake regatta track, the canoeing leaders from all over the world will participate in the Championships to be held from the 19th to the 22nd of August. Several hundred canoeist from a few dozen countries have already announced to take part in the Championships. The final moment of the canoeing events will be the Academic World Championships to be held from the 27th to the 29th of August.
The breakthrough of July and August marks the beginning of Lech Poznan players struggle to rise to the elite Champions League. This year, after 17 years break, Lech Poznan Football Club became the champions of Poland. In the first qualifying matches Lech Poznan will play against the Azerbaijani FC Inter Baku. The first match will be held either on the 13th or the 14th July at the Azerbaijani stadium. The return match will take place a week later at the stadium in Poznan. It is another skirmish between Poznan players and the Azerbaijani club. Two years ago Lech Poznan?s opponent was FC Khazar Lankaran. |
