The practice of canoeing in Ivrea began in the 1950s. The subsequent founding and growing importance of the local Ivrea Canoe Club led to a long series of efforts aimed at modifying the configuration of a part of the
Dora Baltea riverbed near the city center to make it more suitable for the sport, ultimately resulting in the creation of the current whitewater facility. The latest and most relevant work campaigns include the works carried out in 2005 by Ondrej Cibák, which redesigned the slope of the last part of the canal to better distribute the significant drop of the facility. Cibák had previously designed the
Ondrej Cibak Whitewater Slalom Course in
Liptovský Mikuláš,
Slovakia. In 2006, the French company Hydrostadium, which had already designed the
Hellinikon Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre for the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens, carried out works on the canal. In 2016 additional works were carried out by Whitewater Park International, which also designed the Olympic canals in Sydney, London, and Rio de Janeiro. The facility hosted the first round of the
2016 Canoe Slalom World Cup and the fourth round of the
2017 Canoe Slalom World Cup. It also hosted the
2021 European Canoe Slalom Championships and the
2022 World Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships. == References ==