Larry Cain

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Larry Cain
Personal information
Full nameLaurence J. Cain
Born (1963-01-09) January 9, 1963 (age 61)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Home town Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Sport
CountryCanada
Sport Canoe racing
Event(s) C-1 500 m, C-1 1000 m
Club Burloak Canoe Club
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1984 Los Angeles C-1 500 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1984 Los Angeles C-1 1000 m
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1989 Plovdiv C-1 1000 m

Laurence J. "Larry" Cain, CM (born January 9, 1963) is a Canadian sprint canoeist. He was the first Canadian canoeist since Frank Amyot to win an Olympic gold medal in canoeing.

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Early life

Cain was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Oakville Trafalgar High School.

Career

Cain began his career in 1974 at the Oakville Racing Canoe Club, now the Burloak Canoe Club, in Oakville, Ontario. [1]

Cain competed in three Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the C-1 500 m, [2] and a silver medal in the C1 1000 m [2] events. He also won a silver medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1989 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Plovdiv. [3]

The Larry Cain trail outside the Burloak Canoe Club Larry Cain Trail 001.jpg
The Larry Cain trail outside the Burloak Canoe Club

In 1984, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. [4] In 1997, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. A trail in Oakville has been named in his honour running along the town's waterfront where Cain trained. [5]

Cain taught Physical Education at St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School until 2014. [5] [6] He then worked as a coach, preparing paddlers for the Olympic Games in Rio. [6]

In 2016 Cain founded an online paddle-training company called Paddle Monster for standup paddleboarding. [7] Cain also coached High Performance Canoeing at Burloak Canoe Club. [8]

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References

  1. "Larry Cain". Oakville Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
  2. 1 2 Kamber, Raymond. Medal Winners Since 1936 - 2007 (PDF). Canoe ICF. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  3. Kamber, Raymond. Medal Winners Since 1936 - 2007 (PDF). Canoe ICF. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
  4. "Order of Canada". Governor General of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
  5. 1 2 "Larry Cain Trail". Oakville Trails. Town of Oakville. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
  6. 1 2 "Olympic canoe champion Larry Cain carves niche in paddleboard racing". CTV News, Donna Spencer, December 26, 2016
  7. "Olympic canoeist Larry Cain back on the water – as a paddleboard coach". DONNA SPENCER. The Globe and Mail, December 26, 2016
  8. "Stand-up paddleboarding: Sport federations squabble over control". Michael Drapack · CBC News · Oct 31, 2017