Canadian sprint is an event in a single row using the Canadian canoe paddle blade, set up a straight course to rivers, lakes and ponds with no flow, time to start simultaneously compete for a boat 9.

Video, is a state of men's 500m sprint double at the Canadian 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Regulations commentary seen in 5 minutes

The competition area

  • 9There is a (waterway) lanes, one lane is made to 9m in width.
  • 漕者 will be disqualified and had to be the center of the lane Koga, and protrude from this lane.
  • Buoy indicate the lane is being installed every 12.5m.
  • Color of the buoy of 100m before the finish, making it all red.
  • If you capsize in the middle will be disqualified.

Start

  • Each boat, put the tip of the boat to the starting block of the device for preventing the boat from automatic flying, lined up beside Issen.
  • "Set;" (Ready for the location) Ready "; players are poised to paddle with" (set available), to prepare for the start.
  • If you move the paddle in front of the start signal, will be disqualified been sentenced to (flying) false start, false start and the same player twice.

Finish

  • Ranking will be determined in the order has passed the finish line bow.
  • 2If the competition seater and four-seater, with the goal must be a member of the crew were all aboard, and the goal is not allowed.

カナディアン カヌー (Canadian Canoe)

  • 漕者 takes a posture of sitting straight or towards the direction of travel of the boat Tatehiza, go before either the left or right while rowing the only one with a single blade paddle with a blade on one side.
  • "Canadian (Canadian)" is called, we call "canoe (Canoe)" in Japan and abroad.

The road to gold medal

  • Proceed through the semi-finals and finals → → qualifying.
  • In qualifying, the No. 1 team in the finals, teams ranked 2-7 in each group will advance to the semifinals.
  • In the semifinals, the top three teams will advance to the finals.

World Record / Japanese record

Canadian single-200m sprint

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Worldmen38"383Ledys Frank Balceiro(Cuba)2001Years

Canadian single-500m sprint

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Worldmen1:45"614Maxim Opalev (Russia)2002Years

Canadian sprint single 1,000 m

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Worldmen3:46"201David Cal(Spain)2004Years

Canadian pair 200m sprint

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Worldmen35"760Tomas Gadeikis, Raimundas Labuckas (Lithuania)2007Years

Canadian pair 500m sprint

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen1:38"270Tomasz Goliasz, Marek Łbik (Poland)1989Years

Canadian pairs 1,000 m sprint

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Worldmen3:28"531Ibrahim Rojas, Leobaldo Pereira (Cuba)2001Years

Four Canadian 200m sprint

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Worldmen32"753Robert Vinturis, Ionel Averian, Ciucu, Mardale(Romania)1997Years

Four Canadian 500m sprint

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Worldmen1:29"956Sándor Malomsoki, George Kozmann, Bela Belicza, Gabor Ivan (Hungary)2002Years

Four Canadian 1,000 m sprint

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen3:14"459Robert Nuck, Stefan Holtz, Stephan Breuing, Thomas Lück(Germany)2006Years