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| Full name | Laurence J. Cain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 9, 1963 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Oakville, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | C-1 500 m, C-1 1000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burloak Canoe Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Cain was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Oakville Trafalgar High School.
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]
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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