In slalom, a canoe is required to be a minimum of 3.5m long for C1 and 4.1m for C2 and competitors use single-blade paddles and kayaks must be a minimum 3.5m long and competitors use double-blade ...

Sometime before she races across Tokyo Bay, American teenager Nevin Harrison will likely paddle her canoe to a quiet spot and have a good cry. Harrison’s pre-race tears are a pressure-valve release, ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 05: Nevin Harrison of Team United States competes during the Women’s Canoe Single 200m Semi-final 2 on day thirteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Sea Forest Waterway on ...

American teen Nevin Harrison won gold in the inaugural women's canoe single 200-meter final in Tokyo on Thursday, becoming the first winner of the Olympic event. She took home the U.S.' first canoe or ...

PARIS, Aug 6 8Reuters) - New Zealand's five-times Olympic champion Lisa Carrington got a winning start but Denmark's world champions Emma Jorgensen and Frederikke Matthiesen were knocked out as canoe ...

Nevin Harrison made Olympic history Thursday by earning the first-ever Olympic gold medal in women's canoeing. The 19-year-old had the best time in the 200-meter sprint in the heats, the semifinals, ...

Great Britain will leave no stone unturned in its quest to secure quotas for the canoe sprint events at future Games. At Paris 2024, the British team excelled in canoe slalom, winning four medals, but ...

Hungary, which has the largest team with 50 athletes, had no problems in the first heats. The men's K4, with a defiant reaction, set the fastest time. Last year, at the European Games, which were ...

The Ukrainian duo Liudmyla Luzan and Iryna Fedoriv have won a silver medal in the 200-metre canoe doubles at the 2025 ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe European Championships in Racice, Czechia. Details: ...

China's Xu Shixiao and Sun Mengya defended their Olympic title in the women's canoe double 500m final at the Paris Olympics on Friday. The pair stormed to victory with an Olympic best of 1 minute and ...

Live stream info and how to watch the Olympics canoe sprint competition at Rio 2016 online on Wednesday, August 17 One of the most exciting events at the 2016 Rio Olympics that not enough people are ...