K-1 1000 (men)Briton Tim Brabants captured the gold medal with a time of 3:26.323 seconds in the men’s kayak single (K1) 1000m final. Eirik Larsen of Norway took the silver (3:27.342) and Australia’s Ken Wallace claimed the bronze (3:27.485).
K-4 1000 (men)Belarus (2:55.714) won the race followed by Slovakia (2:56.593) and Germany (2:56.676).
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Michael Martikan won the Gold Medal in the men’s single C1 slalom kayaking event on Tuesday, repeating his performance at the Atlanta Games in 1996. In Sydney and Athens, Martikan was forced to settle for Silver, losing to France’s Tony Estanguet. This year Estanguet finished 9th in the first run and failed to qualify for […]
Here are some pictures of the eighth day of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games previews. This collection is from the kayaking practice session at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park on earlier today. The members of the Australian team are pictured. It’s hard work but it looks like a lot of fun!
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Team Canada rocked the boat (pun intended!) at the canoe-kayak World Cup this weekend. Both Adam van Koeverden and Thomas Hall took home gold medals after scoring big at the competition in Poznan, Poland.
Van Koeverden earned his 20th (amazing!) career World Cup win in the 1,000-metre kayak […]
Canoe and Kayak events have been part of the Olympic summer games since 1936. Women’s events were added in 1948.
Canoe/Kayak events are divided into two categories: flatwater and slalom. There are nine mens and three womens events in the flatwater competition. Men use one and two-person-canoes and one, two, and four-person kayaks on 500m […]
Georgia native, Morgan House, is just one of thousands of American Olympic hopefuls with their eyes on Beijing. House, a world-class competitor in the K-1 1000m and K-2 500m kayak events, trains at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. He was inspired to get into Olympic-level paddling when the Olympics were in […]
The Olympic Torch is just part of what Light the Torch covers. We discuss the coming Beijing Olympics as well as future and past Olympic Games, Olympic athletes, and Olympics issues and news.
Written by Sandy Mitchell [email] for b5media.
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