Canoe & Kayak Sports News – Flatwater | Canoe Sprint

20-02-2012

CanoeKayak Canada fires high performance director

This Olympic cycle has seen a number of leadership changes within the CanoeKayak Canada organization. The latest move — the firing of high performance director Barney Wainwright on Thursday — is rather eyebrow-raising since it comes just five months before the Summer Games.

14-02-2012

Clint Robinson’s prediction for the winning K1 1000 London 2012

Last month we published an article with the January 2012 Olympic Medal prediction for sprint. This prediction is based on an algorithm that monitors athletes’ performances leading up to the Games. Obviously this prediction was received with a healthy suspicion.

07-02-2012

Interview with ICF Chair Canoe Sprint Frank Garner

Frank Garner has attended three Olympic Games as Canada’s National Coach and three as an International Canoe Official. In 2012, Frank will go to the Olympics for the seventh time. He will be the Chief Official for the Flatwater Sprint events to be held in Eton, England in August.

25-01-2012

Adam Tenwolde shares his tentative 2012 season schedule with us

Being an Olympic year, spring training camp is going to be longer then ever before, for myself. I am going to Florida for 3 months this year. I am heading down on February 5th and staying until the last week in April, when we will then drive from Melbourne, FL to Gainesville, GA for our final preparation for Canadian Olympic Team Trials.

14-01-2012

Stewart takes out hotly contested K1 1000 Final

Murray Stewart wins the men’s K1 1000, Queenslander’s Ken Wallace and David Smith win the K2 1000 and the K4 Worlds crew are on track with an impressive performance to kick off proceedings on day one.

11-01-2012

Robinson starts his tilt for sixth Olympic Games

Olympic and World Champion Clint Robinson is about to stage a remarkable comeback to the sport of canoe sprint when he competes at the NSW Sprint Championships this weekend.

11-01-2012

Interview with 200 meter World Champion Lisa Carrington

Lisa Carrington from New Zealand became World Champion last year in Szeged, Hungary in the K1 200 metre event. Lisa hails from Auckland on the North shore, which is only 5 minutes from where she trains most of the year, although she also spends a few months in Europe each year.

06-01-2012

January 2012 Olympic Medal prediction for canoe sprint

USA Today published its medal tracker for London. Its tracker projects the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an algorithm that monitors athletes’ performances leading up to the Games. The table is update once a month.

02-01-2012

Adam van Koeverden ‘Right to Play Ambassador’ in Mali

I'm on my way home to Toronto now, reflecting back on our trip. There's a lot going on upstairs, I think I'll recap Friday... it was one of the busiest, and most moving days of the week.

29-12-2011

Interview with Maximilian Benassi

Max Benassi, a sprint and downriver racing specialist, and one of the best in the world is visiting Australia as part of his training program leading up to selection races for the 2012 Olympics. Here he talks with Rob van Bommel about his impressions of Australia.

22-12-2011

AUSTRALIA’S youngest-ever Olympic kayak gold medallist now aims to be its oldest

Clint Robinson, a star of surf and still-water paddling, was 20 when he gave his country its first Games kayak gold in the 1000m singles final at Barcelona in 1992.