Association: ICF
First Played: 19th century modern canoeing
Team Members: 1 or 2
Equipment: Canoe and paddle
Area: Outdoors
Olympics Played: 1936
Description:
The sport played in canoes on fast and calm waters is also called canoeing. Canoeing has been included in the Olympic sports category since the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Canoeing is an activity that involves rowing a canoe with a single-bladed paddle. The common meanings of the term are limited to when canoeing is the central purpose of the activity. Broader meanings include when canoeing is combined with other activities, such as camping, or when canoeing is merely a method of transportation used to perform other activities. Today, most canoeing is done as part of or as part of a sport or recreational activity. In some parts of Europe, canoeing refers to both canoeing and kayaking; canoeing is called Open canoeing.
Some of the recreational canoe sports are canoe camping and canoe racing. Other forms include a wide variety of canoes on lakes, rivers, oceans, ponds and streams.
History:
A canoe is a flat-type, single-legged, lightweight and portable boat. The word canoe comes from the Caribbean word kenu and passed to Spanish as canoa. It passed to Turkish from French. The oldest canoe found in the world is a canoe found in the Netherlands and exhibited in a museum, dating back to 8200 to 7600 BC. It was found that the carved wooden canoes found in Denmark were made between 5300 and 3950 BC. Canoeing is an ancient form of transportation. Modern recreational canoeing was established in the late 19th century. In 1924, canoe associations from Austria, Germany, Denmark and Sweden founded the Kanusport International Representative, the forerunner of the International Canoe Federation. Canoeing became part of the Olympic Games in the summer of 1936. The main form of competitive sport was canoe sprint, using the sprint canoe. Others include canoe polo, whitewater canoeing, canoe marathon, ICF canoe marathon, and playboating. National canoe associations include American, Canadian, English, Scottish, and Welsh.
Course Dimensions:
Performed on rapids with an average depth of 500 m and a total length of 12 km.
