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Paracanoeing At The 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's KL1
The Canoe Sprint women's KL1 event at the 2020 Paralympic Games The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympi ... took place on 2 and 4 September 2021. Two initial heats were held. Winners advanced directly to the final. The rest went into one of two semifinals, where the top three in each semifinal also advanced to the final. Schedule Results Heats ;Heat 1 ;Heat 2 Semifinals ;Semifinal 1 ;Semifinal 2 Final A References {{DEFAULTSORT:Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics - Women's KL1 Women's KL1 Para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Gate Bridge
is a truss cantilever bridge across Tokyo Bay in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It opened on 12 February 2012 with an estimated total construction cost of for the Stage II section of highway including the bridge.Official "flyer" shows Stage II including Tokyo Gate Bridge, with a budget as of November 2009 it is similar to those as Forth Bridge in UK and Quebec Bridge in Canada and Queensboro Bridge in New York City. History Part of a new four-lane highway ringing Tokyo, construction began in 2002 and was scheduled for completion in 2011, but the opening to traffic was delayed until 2012. With the provisional name of the public was asked for suggestions. From the 12,223 received, "Tokyo Gate Bridge" was chosen and officially announced on 15 November 2010. Design The design fulfils the requirement to be high enough to allow large ships to pass underneath, but low enough not to interfere with air traffic to the nearby Haneda Airport. It is a double cantilever bridge, which means that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Maosan
Xie or Hsieh may refer to: Xie People * Xie of Xia (), legendary king of the Xia Dynasty * Xie of Shang (契), legendary nobleman * Xie, Marquis of Jin (; th century BC), ruler of the State of Jin * King Xie of Zhou (; BC) * Alexandra Kitchin (1864–1925), Lewis Carroll's friend and photo model nicknamed "Xie" * Xie (surname) (), derived from the state * Xie (surname 解) Places * Xie (state) (), a state during the Zhou dynasty in modern Henan * Xie River (Brazil) in Amazonas in Brazil *Xie River (, ''Xiè Shuǐ'') in Shimen County, Hunan, in China *Xie River (, ''Xié Chuān'') in ancient China, near Shaanxi's Baoxie Plank Road *Xie River (, ''Xiè Shuǐ'') in China *Xie River (, ''Xiè'') in China Xi'e *Xi'e (, ''Xī'è''), a region during the Qin, Han, and Jin dynasties in modern Hubei XIE *Xavier Institute of Engineering The Xavier Institute of Engineering (XIE), a sister institution of St. Xavier College, Mumbai, Fort, is an engineering college in central Mumba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Seryu
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Monika may refer to: People * Monika (given name) Films and video games * ''Monika'' (1938 film), a German film * ''Monika'' (1974 film), an Italian film Music * ''Monika'' (opera), a 1937 opera by Nico Dostal * Monika Christodoulou, a Greek musician known mononymously as Monika * Monika Enterprise, a record label *''Monika'', an operetta composed by Nico Dostal * "Monika" (song), by Island, Cyprus' entry for Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 *"Monika", a 1969 song by Peter Orloff See also *" Hej Hej Monika", a song by Nic & the Family * * Monica (other) *Monique (other) * Santa Monica (other) Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, U.S. Santa Monica may also refer to: Places * Santa Mônica, Paraná, Brazil * Santa Mônica in Lages, Brazil * Santa Monica, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brianna Hennessy
Brianna Hennessy (born September 23, 1984) is a Canadian Paracanoe, paracanoeist. She qualified to represent Canada at the 2021 World Cup in Hungary in KL1 (classification), Women's KL1, and Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Women's VL2, Women's VL2. Career She played wheelchair rugby, for the Tampa Bay Generals. She competed at the 2021 ICF Paracanoe World Cup. References 1984 births Living people Canadian female canoeists Sportspeople from Ottawa Paralympic canoeists for Canada Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in paracanoe {{Canada-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Pulai
Erika may refer to: Arts and Entertainment * Hayasaka Erika (''Megatokyo)'' * Erika (''Friends'') * Erika (''Pokémon'') * Erika (''Underworld'') * Erika Itsumi ''(Girls und Panzer)'' * ''Erika'' (film), a 1971 Italian thriller film * "Erika" (song), a German marching song People * Erika (given name), a female given name (including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name) * Érika (born 1988), female Brazilian footballer Science * Any of several tropical storms named Erika * ''Erika'' (moth), a genus of moth Other * , (ship) an oil tanker which sank off the coast of France in 1999 * ERIKA Enterprise, (software) an open source OSEK/VDX embedded operating system * Erika (law) The Erika legislative packages of the European Union are maritime laws intended to improve safety in the shipping industry and thereby reduce environmental damage to the oceans. The packages are named after the oil tanker '' Erika'', which broke ..., maritime laws, le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanette Chippington
Jeanette Clare Chippington, (née Esling; born 21 April 1970) is a British Paralympic swimmer and paracanoeist. Chippington has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, five in swimming Summer Paralympics, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. Competing as a S6 classification swimmer she favoured mainly 50 m and 100m freestyle competitions. After retiring from swimming Chippington returned to disability sport, becoming a world class paracanoeist, winning gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and bronze at 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Personal history Chippington was born Jeanette Clare Esling in 1970 in Taplow, England. In 1982 she contracted a virus which resulted in damage to her spinal cord which in turn left her paralysed in both legs. She married in 1998, flying from her honeymoon to compete in the IPC Swimming World Championships in New Zealand. She has two children and also works as a swimming instructor and coach. Swimming career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Dupik
Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "protector of man". The name Alexandra was one of the epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek ( or //), written in the Linear B syllabic script.Tablet MY V 659 (61). Alexandra and its masculine equivalent, Alexander, are both common names in Greece as well as countries where Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are spoken. Variants * Alejandra, Alejandrina (diminutive) (Spanish) * Aleksandra (Александра) (Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian) * Alessandra (Italian) * Alessia (Italian) * Alex (various languages) * Alexa (English, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Organising Committee Of The Olympic And Paralympic Games
The (TOCOG) was the organisation responsible for overseeing the planning and development of the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympic and 2020 Summer Paralympics, Paralympic Games. History The Organising Committee was launched on 24 January 2014, and is composed of members of the Japanese Olympic Committee, the Japanese Paralympic Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Japanese government, as well as members of various other organisations and individuals from various fields. It was spearheaded by former Prime Minister of Japan, Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori until his resignation in 2021, with Toshirō Mutō as Director General (CEO) and former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe as its Supreme Advisor. Mori offered his resignation as head of the committee on 12 February 2021 following remarks he made during a meeting the previous week that were regarded as sexism, sexist. On 18 February, seven-time Olympian and Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), LDP Legislator, lawmaker Sei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edina Müller
Edina Müller (born 28 June 1983) is a German Disability sport classification#Wheelchair basketball, 2.5 point wheelchair basketball player and KL1 (classification), KL1 canoeist. She played for ASV Bonn in the German wheelchair basketball league, and for the national team. As part of the German women's national wheelchair basketball team, she won bronze at the 2006 World Cup in Amsterdam, won three time European champions (in 2007, 2009, 2011), a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. The team was voted 2008 Team of the Year in disabled sports, and Horst Köhler presented it with Germany's highest sports award, the ''Silbernes Lorbeerblatt'' (Silver Laurel Leaf). President Joachim Gauck awarded the team a second Silver Leaf after it won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Müller was also a two-time U.S. champion (2006-2008) with her college team Illinois Fighting Illini at the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Paralympic Games
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Originally scheduled to take place from 25 August to 6 September 2020, both the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were postponed by a year in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rescheduled Games still referred to as ''Tokyo 2020'' for marketing and branding purposes. As with the Olympics, the Games were largely held behind closed doors with no outside spectators due to a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area and other prefectures. The Games were the second Summer Paralympics hosted by Tokyo since 1964, and the third Paralympics held in Japan overall since the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano. Due to the postponement of the Paralympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was also the first (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paracanoeing At The 2020 Summer Paralympics
Paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan took place at the Sea Forest Waterway, the same location where the rowing took place. This was the second appearance of paracanoe in the Paralympic Games and the debut of all three va'a events. The 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They kept the 2020 name and were held from 24 August to 5 September 2021. Qualification A total of 91 athletes qualified for paracanoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Each NPC could enter a maximum of 9 athletes (one qualification spot per event); however, an athlete could enter both kayak and va'a events in their assigned categories as long as they contested those events in one of the competitions mentioned below. Qualification spots were allocated through one of the following methods: *The 6 top ranked athletes in each Paralympic event at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships obtain one qualification spot for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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