This innovation is so disruptive that was awarded with a patent that certifies its innovative and functional characteristics. It is the first patent of its kind in the sport.

The patent covers all paddle boats, including canoeing and rowing.

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An app that is the perfect partner for paddling sessions, together with a web solution to analyse, compare and improve training.

For years paddlers had to resort to solutions built for other sports to be able to monitor and track their activities and paddling sessions. And the apps designed for canoeing had several limitations.
Nelo has always been spearheading technology innovations in boats and bringing new tools to paddlers. For some time we have been looking at all the current solutions on the market and listening to who matters the most - paddlers - to understand what are the major needs and key issues for this kind of product. Together with all our know-how, we believed that we could provide better.

Nelo Coach divides itself in two components:
1. An Android app for mobile devices for the paddler to take with him on the boat. The app tracks the training sessions and provides real time data such as speed, distance, time, strokes per minute, distance per stroke, among others. The athlete even has the chance to create laps to provide analysis on partial stretches.
Safety is also a major concern and the app comes equipped with a Safe Mode feature. When activated, the app can automatically or manually send a stress warning to selected emergency contacts.

2. A web application where the sessions are uploaded to. A wide range of analysis tools are available, like dividing the session in smaller sections, access full and per lap totals, split by distance or time with partials, store, tag and organize the sessions by boat type or simply by date and share on facebook. The comparison chart allows to quickly measure the progress and check where it can improve.

The app is available at Google Play Store for EUR 19.99, USD 19.99 and GBP 14.99: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nelocoach.mobile.android

Asian Games can be a little under the radar outside Asia, but it is an Olympic dimension event, in which Nelo has been associated and present since the first time canoeing entered the program in 2006.

The level of racing is high with many teams centering here their entire preparation, warranty of a great show in all the finals.

Our service team stayed here for the last 3 weeks servicing the over 120 boats we sent over for this event, giving the teams the same level of support and service we give in all the major events.

Results 22 medals of the 36 possible , a great increase from the last Games in yet another record.

Special note to:

- Gold in all the K1 events
- 1st ever Gold for Korea in Canoe Sprint at this level, achieved on the K1 200 Men
- 8 gold medals won by 5 different countries.
- 70% of the boats in all the finals.

After all a big part of the paddlers relies on our service team for small repairs, last minute adjustments, handles, pumps and much more! This race was no different with the service team working non-stop, to only later enjoy the athletes perform at their best with the boat all set up to their wishes.

Marathon was the first discipline where Nelo collected medals back in the 80s so it is for us an emblematic discipline, and we try hard to keep on the edge of the development and adjustments, the past years we corrected and improved a lot of items with that intent.

Results could hardly be better as we missed only a couple of gold medals across the entire weekend! And got 85% of the medals!

Thank you to all those paddlers that in Oklahoma helped us getting better and congratulations to all those that achieved their goals, to the ones that didn’t: see you in Gyor!

This week took place in Mexico the qualifier for those Games as well as the Pan Am Championships.

Our presence was just a follow up of a continued support to the Games since 2007 in Rio and Guadalajara 2011 and of course now heading to Toronto 2015.

Being a qualifier and a bit off season, one would expect the teams to take the racing a bit easier but in fact as soon the gun went we were able to assist to some great racing.

We were happy to see that 95% of the boats competing at this Championships were ours what give us a great boost of confidence for the work to be done in the Americas in the coming years.

Now time to turn out eyes to Slalom Worlds!

It is still a long week of work trying to make these dreams come through, and yes it all pays off when they achieve them and feed their dream of reaching the top of this sport.

The stats are pretty amazing as we managed 29 medals in the U 23 class, out of 36, and 28 in the Junior class in the same 36.

In the non Olympic events a note for the gold in both classes on the C1 Women 200.

Now time to focus in Moscow for the big event of the year in Canoe Sprint! See you!

In the boat prep is pretty much the same , as the the Worlds approach the teams want to make sure their equipment is all set, but they still want to do well!

Weather conditions were very challenging and even extreme for the first 2 days, and than settled for the last day.

To name all the extraordinary performances of the weekend would be a very very very long text, as just in Olympic events we got 27 medals of the 36 possible, in what was a solid stat.

But we leave you some quick facts and performances that are worth remembering and even revisit:

1. Hungarian Ladies Team that won 4 of the 4 gold medals in Olympic events, with Danuta Kozak (K1 Quattro M) wining both K1s and taking part also in the K4 gold, Gabriela Szabo and Tamara Csipes won the K2 500, to this we must add that ALL the medals in Olympic events for girls were in Nelo.

2. In the 200 mt event only one medal was not in Nelo Kayaks or Canoes, with 11 out of 12, impressive Serbian Marko (K1 Quattro XXL) Ed Mckeever (K1 Quattro L) Yuri Postrigay (K1 Quattro L), Danuta Kozak (K1 Quattro M) Elena Terekhova (K1 Quattro M) Teresa Portela (K1 Quattro M) , Rauhe/Liebscher (K2 Quattro XXL), Postrigay/Dyachenko (K2 Quattro L) Lankas/Ramanauskas (K2 Quattro XXL) , and in the C1 events Alfonso Benavides (C1 V3 2 H) and Helder Silva (C1 Cinco L) took Silver and Bronze.

3. Czech K4 that renewed their title with a solid performance proving they are back on their A game!

4. Rene Poulsen that came home with 3 silver medals, consistent performances.

5. Czech C2 that even struggling with conditions on Friday managed to come back on saturday to get yet another medal.

6. K2 1000 some of the faster times of all times being achieved, Hybois/Hubert (K2 Quattro L) and Tarr/Vlcek (K2 Quattro XXL) joined Germany in the sub 3,08 podium!

7. Martin Fuksa that was one of the victims of the side wind on saturday, came home to an amazing performance on the C1 500 winning the first senior top level gold medal for the Cinco!

8. Tom Liebscher just did one of the most spetacular K1 500 meters ever seen, for sure worth to watch the video again and again.

9. Max Hoff , Rene Poulsen, Fernando Pimenta and Daniel Pauman closed the Europeans with an entertaining ,exciting and fast race, with Max taking the gold for Germany!

Now time for a road trip to Szeged to meet the future of our Sport in the Jun U23 World Champs!

Mohamed Ali Mrabet became the biggest star of this championships but there were many others with various countries winning gold medals.

Organizing wise it was also one step ahead and the level is raising fast for us Nelo it is a great experience and we could not be more proud to be a sponsor of the CAC.

Check full results here http://results.imas-sport.com/imas/regatta.php?competition=wettkampf_102

Not familiar if it is common in other sports to have the Para Events together with the World Championships, but being or not common we are proud our sport took that option it is a sign of how universal and versatile our sport is, well done CANOEING!

From our point of view it was the most successful Worlds of all times, we got a total of 27 medals in 36 possible in Olympic events , from all the classes and countries came medals and great performances. We know we are just a small part of it but is an amazing experience when we get the recognition on a gift, on a post on a tweet or just in a thank you, that more than any gold medal makes us know we are on the right track!

Rio is just around the corner, so only time to keep the spirits high and keep working.