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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Michal Martikan and canoe Slalom Tickets

Michal Martikan was on born May 18, 1979. He is a Slovak slalom canoeist. In 1996 he became the first athlete to win an Olympic Games gold medal for Slovakia since the country gained independence in 1993. In total he won 4 Olympic medals 2 gold medals and 2 silver medals, which is the most among all slalom paddlers. He has also won the World Championship title in the C-1 individual category four times. He is considered by many the greatest C-1 slalom paddler alive.

At the age of 16, Michal Martikan became the youngest winner of a World Cup slalom canoeing event. Three months later, at age 17, Martikan was in sixth place after the first run of the canoe slalom singles event at the 1996 Olympics. With nothing to lose, he went all out on the second run and just bettered the score of defending champion Lukas Pollert of the Czech Republic. Martikan was the first Olympic champion to represent independent Slovakia. He entered the 2000 Olympics as the favorite, having consistently finished near the top in every major competition and in each World Cup series. At the Sydney Games, Martikan registered the best score in the qualifying round, but was only in fifth place after the first run of the final. In the second run, he paddled a perfect course and his time was the fastest of the round. 

He was able to move up to the silver medal position behind Tony Estanguet of France. Competing in his third Olympics in 2004, Martikan again led the qualifying round. He also earned the highest score in the semifinals, which also served as the first run of the final. After the second run, it appeared that Martikan had regained the Olympic title, but the referees controversially decided to award him a two second penalty which pushed him to second place, only 12 hundredths of a second behind Estanguet. However, Michal Martikan is the only slalom canoeist to win four Olympic medals, because he also won the gold medal in the Beijing 2008 Olympics in the Men's slalom C-1. He has also won the overall World Cup title four times at1998, 2000, 2001 and 2006 which is a record among C-1 paddlers. At the European Championships he has won four straight individual gold medals between 2007 and 2010. Slovakia won the C-1 team event 7 times with him in the team. He also has 3 silver medals 2 individual and 1 in team event.

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Tim Brabants and Canoe sprint Tickets

Tim Brabants was born on 23 January 1977 in Chertsey. He is a British sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals with one gold in 2008: K-1 1000 m and two bronzes in 2000: K-1 1000 m, 2008: K-1 500 m. Brabants won the K-1 1000 m European championship at Szeged, Hungary in 2002, the first time a British paddler had won the blue riband event.

 Olympics 2004 were a bit disappointment. Brabants had won a European silver medal at Poznan earlier in the season and was the fastest qualifier for the Olympic K-1 1000 m final with the world's fastest time of 3:24.41. However in the final itself he finished in fifth place. He took a year off from competitive kayaking in 2005 to complete his medical studies at the highly regarded University of Nottingham followed by a spell as a doctor in Jersey. But returned to action in 2006, winning the gold medal in Racice in the K-1 1000 m event at the European Championships and the silver medal in the same event at the World Championships in Szeged in August 2006, finishing just 0.06 seconds behind Sweden's Markus Oscars son.2007 was an even better year for him. Brabants competed in the K-1 500 m discipline as well and at the European Championships won Silver for the 1000 m and Gold for the 500 m. At the 2007 World Championships in Duisburg, Brabants won gold in the K-1 1000 m and silver in the K-1 500 m events, thus securing a place for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

At these games Brabants made his way into the history books by being the first Brit to win a gold medal in either the sprint or slalom kayak discipline. This he achieved by a convincing win in the K-1 1000 m, leading from start to finish. Although best known as a sprinter, Brabants' first success as a senior international had in fact come in the marathon. He won a silver medal at the 1998 World Championships in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Canoe Sprint Tickets

Canoe sprint takes place on a straight course divided in lanes, on calm water. The distances recognized by the ICF for international races are 200 m, 500 m, and 1000 m. Each boat has own designated lane, except for races over more than 1000 m, where there also may be turning points. Men race in canoes and in kayaks, women in kayaks except in Canada and the United States where women's canoe is an event raced at both Canada Games and National Championships. For each race a number of heats, semi-finals and a final may be necessary, depending on the number of competitors.

Canoe sprint has been part of the Olympic Games since 1936 (Berlin) for men, and since 1948 (London) for women. Notable Olympic gold medal winners are Birgit Fischer-Schmidt who got eight gold medals 1980 to 2004 and Gert Frederickson who got six gold medals 1948 to 1960.

The official boats recognized by the ICF as ‘International Boats’ are the following: K1, K2, K4, C1, C2 and C4, where the number indicates the number of paddlers, “K” stands for kayak and “C” for Canadian or canoe, depending on location. Kayaks have a steering rudder, which is operated by the front most paddler with his feet; in a kayak a paddler is sitting, while in a canoe he is kneeling on one knee. The ICF rules for these boats define, among others, the maximum length, the minimum weight and the shape of the boats. For example, by ICF rules, a K1 is at most 520 cm long, and weighs at least 8 kg for marathons or 12 kg for sprints. In 2000, after the Olympic Games in Sydney, the ICF withdrew width restrictions on all boats, spurring a fury of innovations in boat designs. Some famous kayak marathon racers are Ivan Lawler, a seven-time world champion, and Anna Hemmings, a three-time world champion. At Olympic level, Hungary was the most successful canoeing nation overall in Sydney 2000, whilst Germany topped the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 canoeing medal tables.

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Canoe Slalom Tickets

Canoe slalom is a competitive sport since November 2008. Where the aim is to navigate a decked canoe or kayak through a course of hanging gates on river rapids in the fastest time possible. It is one of the two kayak and canoeing disciplines at the Summer Olympics, and is referred to by the International Olympic Committee as Canoe slalom. The first World Championship held in North America was held at Jonquiere, in Quebec, Canada in 1979.

Each gate consists of one or two poles hanging from a wire strung across the river. There are 18-25, of which 6-7 must be upstream gates, numbered gates in a course and they are colored as either green downstream or red upstream, indicating the direction they must be negotiated. Upstream gates are often placed in eddies, where the water is flat or moving slightly upstream; the paddler eddies out from the main current and paddles upstream through the gate. Most slalom courses take 80 to 120 seconds to complete for the fastest paddlers. Depending on the level of competition, difficulty of course, degree of water turbulence and ability of the other paddlers, times can go up to 200 seconds. Each competitor has two runs on the course, and the final result is based either on the faster run or the sum of the two runs. In international competitions like World Cups, World Championships and Olympic Games Each competitor does two runs in the qualification round, the times are added to give the qualification result. Depending on the number of participants of the event, 10 to 40 boats make it through to the semi-final; this consists of one run on a different course. The fastest 10 boats per event make it through to the final, where they navigate the semi-final course once more and times of semi-final and final run are added to give the final result.

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.

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