Olympic
Review
Highlights
Canoe
Slalom
A gold and a silver in canoe slalom
made GB joint top of the nations’ table
in slalom with Slovakia.
Rio 2016 ranks as British Canoeing’s
most successful Olympic Games
with the slalom and sprint teams
winning a combined total of two
gold and two silver medals.
Joe Clarke wins
GBs second
gold of the Rio
games
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David Florence and Richard Hounslow crowned a
successful week for GB after winning silver in the men’s
C2 for the second Games in a row.
Florence has now won 3 silver medals in successive
Games and he has no plans to stop there.
Fiona Pennie showed consistently high form at each
stage before finishing sixth in the women’s K1 final.
There’s always a lot going on during the Olympics with
jam-packed schedules of a whole host of sports. It can
be easy to miss some of the key results from the canoe
sprint and slalom especially with the time difference too!
23 year old Joe Clarke delivered the run of his life to win
the Olympic men’s K1 title. Amazingly this was his first
ever senior international title at Clarke’s first ever Games.
We’ve compiled the highlights from two weeks of
competition with the key information you need; if it
leaves you wanting more, just click on the story to
Richard Hounslow:
Top to bottom it was a good run down and close
to gold. I enjoyed the race more than I had in
London where it was really nerve wracking and
such a huge atmosphere. This time we are more
experienced and more relaxed
David Florence:
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Joe Clarke:
I still absolutely love canoeing and I’m not
about to retire. I’ve loved all the training in the
build up to the Games and if things continue
successfully for me I’d love to go to Tokyo.
I don’t know what I did to deserve that but I
obviously did something right along the way.
John Anderson MBE, British
Canoeing’s Performance Director:
Joe Clarke, Olympic Champion! It was what
I went to bed dreaming about last night and
what I’ve dreamed of for so many years.
Rio has been our best ever Games for British
Canoeing with two golds and two silver
medals and a lot of other finalists.
Fiona Pennie:
Sixth isn’t the worst result even though it’s
not the result I was after. But I felt I gave it
my all in the final and couldn’t have done any
more than that.
We’ve gone a step up from London which,
coming to South America and doing that, is a
massive achievement.
You can’t stand still and canoeing will
move on and we will be looking for those
gains for Tokyo.
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Canoe Focus Autumn 2016
A silver in mens
C2 wraps up a
successful Rio
canoe slalom
campaign for GB
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