This included the K4W 500m, and a notable victory in 1999 when she was a part of the team that beat a German boat including Birgit Fischer, winner of 11 world titles in K4W 500m, a record for an individual in a specific canoe sprint event. Her triumphs at the world championships spanned from 1998 to 2011, across eight different kayak disciplines. Katalin Kovács has claimed 31 of Hungary's 194 world titles in canoe sprint, a record for an individual. The dominant force in canoe sprint is Hungary, winners of 194 world titles in the discipline, nearly twice as many as next-highest Germany (109). Canoe sprint has featured in every Games since, and the 2016 programme in Rio de Janeiro will consist of eight men's and four women's events. Canoe sprint made its debut at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 with nine men's events, with that number reduced to eight in London 12 years later to accommodate the first women's race at the Games, the K1W 500m won by Denmark's Karen Hoff. Each discipline is categorised by boat type, number of competitors per boat, gender, and race distance, meaning the example of C2M 500m is the canoe male doubles 500m.Ĭompetitive canoe sprint racing dates back to 1869 in Great Britain, but it was more than 50 years until the first international body for canoe sport was formed in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1924. At international level the discipline is competed at four distances from 200m to 5000m, both individually and in teams of up to four. In a canoe, the paddler competes in a striding position using a single-blade paddle, in contrast to the double-bladed paddle used in a sitting position in a kayak. Canoe sprint takes place on a flatwater course and races are contested by two types of boat, canoe (C) and kayak (K).
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