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.
Natasa Dusev-Janics is a Yugoslavian-Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed for Hungary since 2001 and has won six Olympic medals in the sprint canoe events.
Josefa Idem married Guerrini is an Italian canoe sprinter turned politician. Competing in eight Summer Olympics, she has five medals. Winning 35 international medals during her career, Idem was the first Italian woman to win World Championships and Olympic medals in canoe sprint. At the 2009 world championships, she became the oldest medalist in the history of the world championships.
These are the results of the women's K-1 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The K-1 event is raced by single-person canoe sprint kayaks.
Katrin Borchert is an East German-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one silver and two bronzes. During her career, she has represented four countries: East Germany, then West Germany, then Germany followed by Australia.
Alan Blair Thompson is a sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1980s. He competed at three Olympic Games (1980–1988) and won two Olympic gold medals for New Zealand.
São Tomé and Príncipe competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, from 8–24 August 2008. This marked the country's fourth entry in the Olympics, since its debut in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The country's delegation consisted of three competitors, competing in two disciplines: they were athletics competitors Naiel Santiago D'Almeida and Celma Bonfim da Graça, and canoeist Alcino Silva. None of the competitors made it to their event final, though Silva did advance to the semi-finals.
Conny Waßmuth is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 2005. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Gabriella Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s.
Sergey Kalesnik is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds and three silvers.
Bodil Margrethe Thirstedt-Svendsen was a Danish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold and two bronzes.
Sonia Molanes Costa is a Spanish sprint canoeist who has competed since the early 2000's. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds, a silver, and five bronzes.
Gao Beibei is a Chinese sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s. She won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg; She currently serves as a coach in Water Sports Administration Center of Shandong, the executive coach of Chinese Canoeing Team.
Bridgitte Ellen Hartley is a South African canoe sprinter who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth. Three years later, at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Bridgitte again won the bronze medal, this time in the K-1 500m event. In August 2014, she replicated her Olympic form, and at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Moscow she picked up a third career bronze model in international competition. Hartley became the first person from both South Africa and the African continent to medal at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. Hartley also competed in the K-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but was eliminated in the semifinals.
Andrea Elizabeth Dallaway is a British canoe sprinter who competed in the late 1980s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 500 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years later in Barcelona, Dallaway was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 500 m event. At her third and final Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event.
Natalya Sergeyeva is a Kazakhstani sprint canoe racer who competed from the mid-2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she was eliminated in the semi-finals of the K-2 500 m event while being disqualified in the heats of the K-1 500 m event. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in the semi-finals of the K-1 200 m. In the K-1 500 m she reached the B Final.
Carrie Ann Johnson is an American sprint canoer who has competed in the individual and team Canoeing events at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
Henriette Engel Hansen is a world champion Danish canoe sprinter and marathon canoeist. She and team-mate Emma Aastrand Jørgensen won the K-2 1000 m title at the 2014 World Championships.
Erin Taylor is a New Zealand sprint canoeist who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event. She was born in Auckland.
Singapore competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from July 27 to August 12, 2012. This was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Olympics, except for two different editions. Singapore was part of the Malaysian team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but did not attend at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, because of its support for the United States boycott.
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