Olympic Canoeing

The canoeing competition at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics will be held from August 11 to August 23 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing.

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All About Canoeing/Kayaking at the Olympics

The canoeing and kayaking competition is participated in by both women and men. There are two different fields, slalom and flatwater, each with different events.

Slalom
K-1 Men
C-1 Men
C-2 Men
K-1 Women

A country may enter up to one boat in each slalom event. Qualification is awarded to the country, not to the athletes. Two Tripartite Commission Invitation places will be awarded.

Flatwater
K-1 500m Men
K-1 1000m Men
K-2 500m Men
K-2 1000m Men
K-4 1000m Men
C-1 500m Men
C-1 1000m Men
C-2 500m Men
C-2 1000m Men
K-1 500m Women
K-2 500m Women
K-4 500m Women

A country man enter up to one boat in each flatwater competition. Qualification is awarded to the country, not to the athletes. The host nation may submit one boat in K-1 Men, K-1 Women and C-1 Men events.

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Dartfish Case study in Canoeing - Julia Wells, Performance Analyst, English Institute of Sport

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by Julia Wells, EIS In 2004 I started working for the English Institute of Sport as a Performance Analyst and was appointed to provide performance analysis services to the sport of Canoe/Kayak Slalom. Great Britain Canoe/Kayak Slalom team has been using Dartfish for over 6 years in their World Class Coaching Programme. They have produced Olympic medalists in both kayak and canoe classes over the past Olympic cycles with the latest being a Silver in Beijing by David Florence (single canoe class). The use of Dartfish is filtered down through the whole world class programme (Podium to Development programmes) and plays an important role ... Read Full Story

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Dartfish Case study in Canoeing - Julia Wells, Performance Analyst, English Institute of Sport

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[PICTURES] Olympics Day 3 in Pictures

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(L-R) Giovanna Trillini of Italy and Nam Hyunhee of South Korea compete in the semifinals of the women's individual foil fencing event at the Fencing Hall on Day 3 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 11, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts) Li Wenquan of China celebrates during the men's archery team round at the Olympic Green Archery Field on Day 3 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 11, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images AsiaPac) Natalie Golda #6 of the United States goes after the ball as Wang Yi #9 of China grabs her ... Read Full Story

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Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games opening ceremony Live streaming | Watch Live Streaming Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games opening ceremony

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BEIJING, August 7) -- On Thursday, the press conference on "Preparation work for Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park" was held at Beijing's Main Press Center. Mr. Xin Qunying, deputy director of the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, and Mr. Zhang Xiangdong, vice director of Shunyi Management Committee of Olympic venues attended the press conference. Both spoke about the work done at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in preparation for the Games. Olympic rowing, canoeing, kayaking, and marathon swimming events will be held at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, where a total of 32 Olympic gold medals will be awarded. The Park is located at the eastern ... Read Full Story

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Olympic Gold Medalist Dies

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Gyorgy Kolonics, a 36-year-old, two-time Olympic gold medalists from Hungary died Tuesday, after collapsing in his canoe. The canoeing gold medalist lost consciousness and collapsed Tuesday while training for the Beijing Olympics. Paramedics were unable to revive him. As of now, the cause of death is presumed to be heart failure. Kolonics won Olympic gold in the 1996 Atlanta Games in the 500-meter singles and at the 2000 Sydney games in the same event. He received a bronze metal in Atlanta in the 1,000-meter doubles race and in the same event in 2004 in Athens. In the Tuesday training session, Kolonics was training for ... Read Full Story

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Alison Thorogood

Created New page'''Alison Thorogood''' (born November 30, 1960) is a [[Great Britain|British]] [[canoe racing|sprint canoer]] who competed in the early to mid 1990s. At the [[1992 Summer Olympics]] in [[Barcelona]], she was eliminated in the semifinals of both the [[Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Women's K-1 500 metres|K-1 500 m]] and the [[Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics - Women's K-4 500 metres|K-4 500 m]] event. [[1996 Summer...

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Canoeing: Golden girls rivals for Olympic berth

LIZZIE Neave and Laura Blakeman have set their sights on the London Olympics after helping Great Britain to gold at the Slalom World Championships. Neave, aged 22, from Stone, also won an individual bronze at the championships after her success with ...

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Pierre Langlois

Created New page'''Pierre Langlois''' (born February 2, 1958) is a [[France|French]] [[Canoe racing|sprint canoer]] who competed in the early 1980s. At the [[1980 Summer Olympics]] in [[Moscow]], he finished ninth in the [[Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Men's C-2 500 metres|C-2 500 m]] event while withdrawing prior to the heats of the [[Canoeing at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Men's C-1 1000 metres|C-1 1000 m]] event. ==References...

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