Canoe Sprint Paddles and Olympic Canoe Sprint Tickets

Paddles for propelling are double-bladed for kayaks, and single-bladed for canoes, and are usually made of carbon fiber with epoxy. For kayaks so called wing paddles are generally used, the blades of which are shaped to resemble a wing. These paddles are more efficient than traditional paddles, presumably because they create extra "lift" in the direction the kayak moves. The wing blade has undergone many evolution in the past two decades, evolving from a flatter blade to one with a more pronounced curve to better catch the water. For racing canoes, the blade will typically be short and broad, with a 'power face' on one side that is either flat or scalloped out. 

The shaft will typically be longer than a tripping canoe paddle, because the kneeling position puts the paddler higher above the surface of the water. More recent designs of canoe racing paddles often have a slight bent shaft a concept of Gene Jensen in the 1950s but not to the degree used in marathon paddles. Many high-performance canoe paddlers prefer the feel of a carbon fiber shaft mated to a wooden blade, while nearly all high-performance kayak paddlers use paddles made completely of carbon fiber.

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Development of Slalom Boats and Olympic Canoe Slalom Tickets

In the 1960s and early 1970s, boats were made of heavy fiberglass and nylon. The boats were high volume and weighed over 65 pounds. In the early 1970s Kevlar was used and the boats became lighter as well as the volume of the boats was being reduced almost every year as new designs were made. A minimum boat weight was introduced to equalize competition when super light materials began to effect race results. The I.C.F also reduced the width of the boats in the early 1970s. The gates were hung about 10 cm above the water. When racers began making lower volume boats to sneak underneath gates, the gates were raised in response to fears that new boats would be of such low volume as to create a hazard to the paddler. Their low volume sterns allow the boat to slice through the water in a quick turn, or 'pivot'.

Typically, new racing boats cost between $1,200 and $2,500 or £650 onwards for the cheapest constructions in fiberglass. Usually boats are made with carbon fiber, Kevlar, and fiberglass cloth, using epoxy or polyester resin to hold the layers together. Foam sandwich construction in between layers of carbon, Kevlar or Aramid is another technique in use to increase the stiffness of slalom boats.

Recently, the minimum length of these boats were reduced from 4 meters down to 3.5 meters, causing a flurry of new, faster boat designs which are able to navigate courses with more speed and precision. The shorter length also allows for easier navigation and less boat damage in the smaller man made river beds that are prevalent in current elite competitions. Boat design progression is rather limited year to year. Designs tend to focus on providing optimal performance for upcoming critical race venues. Olympic years tend to generate boat designs with specific performance characteristics tuned for the upcoming Olympic course.

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Raman Piatrushenka and Olympic Canoe Sprint Tickets

Raman Piatrushenka was born December 25, 1980 in Kalinkavicy. He is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2000. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold medal (K-4 1000 m: 2008) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2004, 2008).

Piatrushenka's first success on the international stage came at the 2000 European under-23 Championships in Boulogne, France as a member of the Belarus K-4 crew which won both the 500 m and 1000 m gold medals. One by one, the members of the under-23 crew were being promoted to the Belarus senior boat. In 2001 however, Piatrushenka destroyed a field of more experienced paddlers to become Belarus K-1 national champion. Now wishing to concentrate on the K-1, he initially refused to join the senior K-4 crew as the coaches had planned.

At the 2001 European championships in Milan he was persuaded to enter the K-4 races, winning his first senior medals – the 500 m and 1000 m bronze. In the K-1 1000m however, he could only finish 17th. At the 2002 European under-23 Championships in Zagreb he won the K-1 1000 m gold medal, as well as retaining both K-4 titles. Having rejoined the senior K-4 crew on a permanent basis he won his first world championship medal, the K-4 1000 m silver, in Seville. Senior K-1 races were proving harder though and he again failed to reach any major finals in 2002. Realizing he was not yet ready to challenge for senior K-1 medals he instead teamed up with Vadzim Makhneu to compete in K-2 races. The partnership was an instant success. On their first World Cup outing in Szeged in May 2003 they beat a world-class field including Germans Rauhe and Wieskotter over 500 m. At the 2003 World Championships in Gainesville, USA, they claimed the silver medal.

In 2004 at the Athens Olympics they won the K-2 500 m bronze medal. They were disappointed not to do better but in the final a false start by eventual silver-medalists Nathan Baggaley and Clint Robinson went unpunished. To make matters worse, Makhneu had stopped paddling after just two strokes, waiting in vain for the Australians to be called back by the starter. The Belarusians had to come through from last place to snatch the bronze medal ahead of the Polish duo of Twardowski and Wysocki.

In 2005 they took a break from the K-2 (and each other). Meanwhile, the Belarusian four, with Piatrushenka as the "engine", established themselves as the top K-4 500m crew in the world. A gold medal at the European Championships in Poznan was followed by victory in the World Championship final in Zagreb. This was Belarus's first world championship team kayak gold medal since independence. He also won nine more medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six gold (K-2 200 m: 2007, 2009; K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 1000 m: 2009), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 1000 m: 2010), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 2006).

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The British Canoe Union and Canoe Slalom Tickets

The British Canoe Union is delighted to announce that the International Canoe Federation has awarded us the 2015 Canoe Slalom World Championships at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, London, home to Canoe Slalom in 2012. In a tightly fought contest, the British Canoe Union managed to prevail over a strong bid from the French Canoe Federation, bringing the Championships back to British waters for the first time in 20 years.

Delighted with the announcement, Paul Owen, British Canoe Union, CEO, commented “The British Canoe Union is extremely proud and excited to have been awarded the 2015 Canoe Slalom World Championships at Lee Valley White Water Centre. We are fully committed to delivering a World Class Event on behalf of the International Canoe Federation. I would like to thank our partners for the fantastic support the British Canoe Union has received in preparation of the bid, especially that of our Government, Lee Valley Regional Park, and UK Sport who all played a substantial part in the bids success. I am convinced that the 2015 Canoe Slalom World Championship will be a fantastic event, providing an excellent opportunity to showcase our sport worldwide.”

A contributing factor in the decision to award the Championship to Great Britain was to ensure the legacy of the State of the Art white water stadium post the Olympic Games, Lee Valley and Canoe Slalom are the first 2012 legacy venue to have won a World Championships. Another great strength of the bid was the partnerships and commitment displayed between Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, UK Sport and the BCU. A thrilled Shaun Dawson Chief Executive of Lee Valley Regional Park Authority commented “We are delighted to host the World Championships here at Lee Valley White Water Centre. The competition allows us to see legacy in action and raise the profile of this exciting sport to a wider audience. We are looking forward to hosting the event and bringing an international audience to the Centre in 2015.”

Essential to the success of the bid was the dedicated support from UK Sport, the nation’s high performance sports agency. Through their National Lottery funded World Class Events Program, the bid was provided with significant support and financial assistance from the UK Government, which no doubt had major impact in securing the Championship.

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Eton Dorney Lake and Olympic Canoe Sprint Tickets

Eton Dorney is a purpose built rowing lake in the United Kingdom. It is located at grid reference SU929779 near the village of Dorney, Buckinghamshire, and near the towns of Windsor and Eton, close to the River Thames. 

The lake is privately owned and financed by Eton College, who has spent £17 million developing it. Additional grants, totaling £500,000, were obtained from Sport England, UK Sport, the DCMS and SEEDA in order to build the lake's finish tower. The project took over 10 years until completion in 2006. Although it is primarily for use by the school, the facilities are hired out for rowing, as well as for canoeing, dragon boating and triathlon training.

The lake will be used as the 2012 Summer Olympic venue for rowing and Olympic Canoe Sprint the whitewater events will take place at Lee Valley White Water Centre in Hertfordshire, and as the 2012 Summer Paralympics venue for rowing.

 This will involve enhancing the existing facilities to include 20,000 seats for Olympic spectators; most of these seats will be temporary. Construction began in October 2009 of enhancements to Dorney Lake, including a new cut-through between the competition lake and the return lane, a new bridge and an upgraded access road, funded by the Olympic Delivery Authority. The Olympics venue is officially termed Eton Dorney.

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Lee Valley White Water Center and Olympic Canoe Slalom Tickets

Lee Valley White Water Centre will host the Olympic Canoe Slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Anne, Princess Royal officially opened the venue on 9 December 2010. The £31 million project was finished on schedule and was the first newly-constructed Olympic venue to be completed.   Lee Valley White Water Centre has now been selected to host the 2015 ICF Olympic Canoe Slalom World Championships.

The venue is located between the towns of Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire and Waltham Abbey in Essex. The site is just outside the northern boundary of Greater London and 14 km north of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. The Centre is in the heart of River Lee Country Park which is part of the 40 km2, 42 km long Lee Valley Park. The Center opened in late 2010 offering canoeing and rafting activities to the public ahead of the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

The venue has a purpose built slalom course for the Olympic white water canoe events flat water canoeing and kayaking events will take place at Dorney Lake, Buckinghamshire and west of London. The main competition channel is an international and Olympic standard 300 meter canoe and kayak slalom course. It and the shorter warm-up course empty into the warm up and cool down lake. The white water is created by a system of pumps which lift water into the two start pools. All of the water contained in the system is slightly chlorinated in order to retain water quality. During the Games, temporary seating will be installed around the venue for 12,000 spectators.

The 300 meter competition course has a drop of 5.5 meters, for an average slope of 1.8% and a pump powered stream flow of 13 cubic meters per second. The intermediate/warm-up course is 160 meters long with a drop of 1.6 meters and flow of 10.5 cubic meters per second. A 10,000 square meter lake, filled with groundwater, supplies the water for the pumps. The course is sited within a new landscaped parkland setting, including path and bridge networks to enable spectators to have access and view the events. A new facility building houses reception, cafe, changing rooms, shop, offices, spectator viewing, equipment storage and water pump and filtration facilities.

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Fanny Fischer and Canoe Sprint Tickets

Fanny Fischer was born on September 7, 1986 in Potsdam. Fischer is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since 1996 and on the senior circuit since 2006. She won a gold medal in the women's K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished fourth in the K-2 500 m event at those same games.

At the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Fischer has won nine medals with three gold medals (K-1 4 x 200 m:2009, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-2 500 m: 2007), four silvers (K-2 200 m: 2006, 2009; K-2 500 m: 2009), K-4 500 m:2010), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2005, 2006).

Fischer's mother, Sarina Hollenbeck Fischer, won a gold medal in women's swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, earning it in the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay anchor leg. Hollenbeck competed in the qualifying round of the women's 4 x 100 m medley relay, but not in the final. Her father, Frank, won nine ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals in the early 1980s. Her aunt, Birgit Fischer, won twelve medals in canoeing at the Summer Olympics between 1980 and 2004. When not competing, she serves in the Bundeswehr as a soldier. Fischer's brother, Falco, is also a canoer.

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