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Canoeing At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's Slalom K-1
The women's K-1 slalom canoeing event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 25 and 27 July 2021 at the Kasai Canoe Slalom Course. 27 canoeists from 27 nations competed. Background This was the ninth appearance of the event, having previously appeared in every Summer Olympics with slalom canoeing: 1972 and 1992 to 2016. Reigning Olympic champion Maialen Chourraut of Spain made her fourth Olympic appearance (she also took bronze in 2012), attempting to defend her title. Reigning World Champion Eva Terčelj of Slovenia also competed as a medal hopeful. She placed 13th in 2012. Qualification A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter only 1 qualified canoeist in the women's slalom K-1 event. A total of 24 qualification places were available, allocated as follows: * 1 place for the host nation, Japan * 18 places awarded through the 2019 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships * 5 places awarded through continental tournaments, 1 per continent Three additional athlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasai Canoe Slalom Course
The Kasai Canoe Slalom Centre is a whitewater paddling venue, constructed to host the whitewater slalom, canoeing slalom events for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It is first artificial slalom course in Japan. The total construction cost of this venue was around 7 billion yen (about $64 million) and it has the capacity 7,500 spectators. References Buildings and structures in Edogawa, Tokyo Venues of the 2020 Summer Olympics Sports venues in Tokyo Sports venues completed in 2019 2019 establishments in Japan Olympic canoeing venues Olympic kayaking venues Artificial whitewater courses {{Japan-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberley Woods
Kimberley Woods (born 8 September 1995) is a British Canoe slalom, slalom canoeist who has competed in C1, K1 and KX1 at the international level since 2011. A six time world and eight time European champion, she won the bronze medal in both the Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's slalom K-1, K1 event and the Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's slalom kayak cross, first ever women's kayak-cross (KX1) event in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Life Personal life Woods was born in 1995, one of four children living in Rugby. Aged four she watched her aunt Diane, who was a silver medallist at the 1994 World Junior canoeing Championships, and was helped by her grandparents to get her own canoe. She was bullied as a child because of her physique and used canoeing as an escape from this. She won three medals at the world junior competitions but was forced to stop canoeing because of an injury and turned to self-harming. In 2013 she attended Rugby College and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
