Sprint kayaking is a sport with a double blade paddle to use a kayak paddle, set up a course straight to rivers and lakes and ponds with no flow, time to start simultaneously compete for a boat 9.

Video, is a state of the men's 1,000 m sprint Kayakkushinguru in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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.

カヤック (Kayak)

  • 漕者 sat in the attitude of the direction of travel of the boat toward the Choza, you can proceed before the boat while rowing alternately left and right double blade paddle with a blade at both ends.
  • Non-round seat has been closed.

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

Kayakkushinguru 200m sprint

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen34"627Edward Mckeever(United Kingdom)2011Years
Worldwomen38"970Birgit Fischer (Germany)1994Years

Kayakkushinguru 500m sprint

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen1:34"680Ferran Franch Callejon(Spain)2012Years
Worldwomen1:46"906Bridgitte Hartley(South Africa)2011Years

1,000 m sprint Kayakkushinguru

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen3:22"485Max Hoff(Germany)2011Years
Worldwomen3:52"983Elzbieta Urbanczik (Poland)2001Years

200m kayak sprint pair

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen31"570Vadzim Makhneu, Raman Piatrushenka(Belarus)2007Years
Worldwomen36"320Fanny Fischer, Nicole Reinhard (Germany)2007Years

500m kayak sprint pair

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen1:26"873Raman Piatrushenka, Vadzim Makhneu(Belarus)2008Years
Worldwomen1:37"071Yvonne Schuring, Victoria Black (Austria)2011Years

Sprint kayak pairs 1,000 m

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen3:09"190Antonio Rossi, Daniele Scarpa (Italy)1996Years
Worldwomen3:34"935Alesia Bakunova, Natalia Bandarenka (Belarus)2001Years

200m kayak sprint fore

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen29"023Julius Kajner, Vince Fehérvári, Zoltán Pager, Stephen Bee (Hungary)1997Years
Worldwomen33"778Mariana Limbau, Raluca Ionita, Sanda Toma, Elena Radu (Romania)1997Years

500m kayak sprint fore

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen1:19"650Richard Riszdorfer, Michal Riszdorfer, Erik Vlcek, Juraj Baca (Slovenia)2002Years
Worldwomen1:30"765Katalin Kovacs, Szilvia Szabo, Erzsébet Viski, Kinga Bóta (Hungary)2002Years

Fore 1,000 m sprint kayak

 RecordNameDate
Worldmen2:47"734Norman Broeckl, Robert Gleinert, Max Hoff, Paul Mittelstedt (Germany)2011Years
Worldwomen3:13"296Eszter Rasztötzski, Kinga Dékány, Krisztina Fazekas, Natasa Janics (Hungary)2003Years