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| Born | May 16, 2002 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sloan MacKenzie (born May 16, 2002) is a Canadian sprint canoeist. [1] MacKenzie is a bronze Olympic medalist in women's C-2 500 metres event and also multiple time World Championships medallist.
At the 2022 Canada Summer Games in the Niagara Region, MacKenzie won four gold medals competing for Nova Scotia. [2] MacKenzie made her senior team debut in 2022, and went onto win the gold medal in the C-4 500 m at the 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. [3] This followed by two bronze medals at the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. [4]
In September 2023, MacKenzie was named to Canada's 2023 Pan American Games team. [5] MacKenzie would go onto win the gold medal with partner Katie Vincent in the C-2 500 m event. [6] [7]
In June 2024, MacKenzie was named to Canada's 2024 Summer Olympics team. [8] [9] [10]
Adam Joseph van Koeverden is a Canadian sprint kayaker and politician. He is an Olympic gold medallist in the K-1 500m category (2004) and a two-time world champion in K-1 500 (2007) and K-1 1000 (2011), winning four Olympic and eight world championship medals. His home club is the Burloak Canoe Club in Oakville, Ontario.
Karen Furneaux is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds, three silvers, and four bronzes.
Michael "Mike" Scarola is a Canadian sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the early 2000s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville, Spain and also won a silver medal in C-2 at the ICF World Marathon Canoe Kayak Championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 2000. Mike finished sixth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was a member of Canada's Senior National Sprint Canoe Kayak Team for 7 years.
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today but is often used as a hypernym for both canoe marathon and canoe sprint. Similarly, the term 'canoeing' is used to describe both kayaking and canoeing.
The 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 12–16 August 2009 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Lake Banook. The competition was organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). The Canadian city was selected to host the championships in October 2003 after having done so previously in 1997. Final preparations were made after the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, with competition format changed for the first time since the 2001 championships. Four exhibition events for both paddleability and women's canoe were added. Sponsorship was local within the province of Nova Scotia and the Halifax Regional Municipality. Media coverage was provided from Canada, Europe and the United States on the Internet, television and mobile phone. 669 canoeists from 68 nations participated at the championships themselves.
Thomas Hall, is an Olympic sprint canoeist from Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada. Training with the Pointe-Claire Canoe Club, he began his international career in 1999, winning a gold medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the Junior World Championships. By the time of the 2008 Summer Olympics, he had made a total of 44 top three finishes in international canoeing competitions, including 14 wins. Among these were a gold and a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. At the Beijing Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in the Men's C-1 1000 metres event.
Mark de Jonge is a Canadian male sprint canoeist, primarily specializing the 200 m kayak event. De Jonge won a bronze medal in the K-1 200 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He is the two time reigning world champion in same event having also won a silver medal at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in 2013. He is also the current Pan American champion in the 200 having won gold in Toronto at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, where he also won an additional bronze, and a silver and bronze at previous editions of the Pan Am Games. He was named the Air Canada Athlete of the Year in 2015 for Canada.
Don Brien is a Canadian sprint canoer, who competed in the mid to late 1980s. He won a bronze medal with partner Colin Shaw in the K-2 1000 m at the 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships at Mechelen.
Julia (Rivard) Dexter is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Rivard and her teammates finished ninth in the K-4 500 m event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She has since become an entrepreneur in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has held several positions in Canadian Olympic sports, Government Stewardship and the Arts and Culture community.
Michelle Russell is a Canadian sprint kayaker.
Pierre-Luc Poulin is a Canadian sprint kayaker. He won several World Cup and international medals.
Katharine Leslie "Katie" Vincent is a Canadian sprint canoeist. She won a gold medal in the women's C-1 200 metres event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, as well as two bronze medals in the women's C-2 500 metres event, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Alanna Bray-Lougheed is a Canadian sprint kayaker. She is the current Pan American Games champion in the women's K-2 500 m with Andréanne Langlois, as well as in the K-4 500 metres with Langlois, Anna Negulic, and Alexa Irvin. Bray-Lougheed was selected by the RBC Training Ground program, an elite Olympic athlete training and identification program for Canada, and joined the Canadian national team in 2015. She competed in the 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, her first World Championships, and made the A Final in the K-2 1,000 m, finishing sixth.
Erica Scarff is a Canadian paracanoeist who competes in international level events.
Nicholas Matveev is a Canadian sprint kayaker.
Brianna Hennessy is a Canadian paracanoeist and wheelchair rugby player. She is a multi-medalist at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and won silver in the women's VL2 at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Canada competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Since Canada's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for the United States-led boycott.
Ian Gaudet is a Canadian male sprint kayaker. His home club is Banook Canoe Club on Lake Banook in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Toshka Besharah-Hrebacka is a Canadian kayaker.
Riley Melanson is a Canadian kayaker.
