The Olympics feature women’s canoeing for the first time

The activity now adds to a long list of Olympic sports that have recently welcomed female competitors. Women now have a chance to win gold in canoeing, some 30 years after it first appeared on the Olympic stage. Olympic fans can buy Olympic Canoe Flat Water Tickets from our website.

For the first time, 22 women competed in an Olympic canoeing event on Tuesday as they successfully navigated the simulated rapids of a white-water course. The semifinals on Thursday at one in the morning Eastern Time will feature 18 of them. The final is set to begin at 2:55 in the morning.

The 2017 world champion from Britain, Mallory Franklin, set the quickest time during qualifying heats on Tuesday with a mark of 105.06 seconds. On Thursday, other competitors include four-time canoe slalom world champion Jessica Fox of Australia and 17-year-old Evy Leibfarth from North Carolina. The event’s youngest contender is Leibfarth.

Women have generally had fewer opportunities, according to Franklin, a pioneer in the sport, who said this month in an interview with The Guardian. There is a lot of background history here. Even if it doesn’t truly impact my career, I am grateful that I get to be the one writing that history.

Kayak slalom competitors sit with their legs in front of them and use two-bladed paddles. In canoeing, paddlers sit with their legs under them and use a one-bladed paddle. On the white-water course, paddlers must pass through 25 gates, six of which are upstream.

Slalom and sprint are the two main categories in which canoeing will compete at the Tokyo Olympics. Sprinting, which comprises head-to-head competitions over distances of 200, 500, and 1,000 meters on flat water, starts on Monday after slaloming.

Which is open to both men and women and concludes on Thursday and Friday. Athletes paddle while kneeling in their canoes during the sprint event. Nevin Harrison, a 17-year-old American, is anticipated to compete for a medal in the canoe sprint.

There is a lengthy Olympic tradition of banning women from sports. Katie Ledecky won the 1,500-meter freestyle race on Wednesday, making history as the first female swimmer to do it at the Olympics. Since 1904, it had been exclusively for men.

Nearly a century after the first marathon was run by men in the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, women first entered the sport in 1984. At the Paris 1900 Games, women participated in the Olympics for the first time.

Mallory Franklin, a British athlete who won the global championship in 2017, set the fastest time on Tuesday during qualifying heats with a time of 105.06 seconds. Other competitors on Thursday include 17-year-old Evy Leibfarth from North Carolina and four-time canoe slalom world champion Jessica Fox of Australia. Leibfarth is the contestant who is the youngest.

According to Franklin, a pioneer in the sport, who remarked this month in an interview with The Guardian, women have generally had fewer opportunities. There is a lot of historical context in this. I am appreciative that I get to be the one author of that history, even if it has no real bearing on my job.

Competitors in kayak slalom sit with their legs in front of them and paddle with two blades. In canoeing, paddlers use a one-bladed paddle while sitting with their legs under them. Paddlers must navigate 25 gates on the whitewater course, six of which are upstream. Olympic fans can buy Summer Games Tickets from our website.

At the Tokyo Olympics, canoeing will primarily compete in the slalom and sprint events. Slaloming, which is open to both men and women, concludes on Thursday and Friday. On Monday, head-to-head contests over lengths of 200, 500, and 1,000 meters on flat water begin sprinting. In the sprint event, competitors kneel in their kayaks and paddle. American teenager Nevin Harrison, 17, is expected to compete for a medal in the canoe sprint.

Olympic Canoe/Kayak events in Paris in 2024

When to watch the canoe/kayak events at the 2024 Olympics in Paris

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, participants in the whitewater and flatwater sports will be prepared to compete in a total of 10 events. Canoe slalom competitions will begin on Day 1 on July 27 and last through August 5th. The sprint competitions will start on August 6 and end on August 10.

Venue

The canoe/kayak competitions will take place in the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium, which will also host the rowing competitions. The Nautical Stadium, which opened in 2019, was the first brand-new Olympic venue finished in advance of Paris 2024.

Paris 2024

Events

Sprint

• Men’s Kayak Single 1000m
• Women’s Kayak Single 500m
• Men’s Kayak Double 500m
• Women’s Kayak Double 500m
• Men’s Kayak Four 500m
• Women’s Kayak Four 500m
• Men’s Canoe Single 1000m
• Women’s Canoe Single 200m
• Men’s Canoe Double 500m
• Women’s Canoe Double 500m

Slalom

• Men’s Kayak
• Women’s Kayak 
• Men’s Canoe Single
• Women’s Canoe Single
• Men’s Extreme Canoe Slalom
• Women’s Extreme Canoe Slalom

Date	Sport	Event	Time (ET)
July 27	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Men’s Canoe Heats Women’s Kayak Heats	9a-1:10p
July 28	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Women’s Kayak Semifinal Women’s Kayak Final	9:30a-12:50p
July 29	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Men’s Canoe Semifinal Men’s Canoe Final	9:30a-12:30p
July 30	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Women’s Canoe Heats Men’s Kayak Heats	9a-1:10p
July 31	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Women’s Canoe Semifinal Women’s Canoe Final	9:30a-12:30p
August 1	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Men’s Kayak Semifinal Men’s Kayak Final	9:30a-12:35p
August 3	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Women’s Extreme Kayak Time Trial Men’s Extreme Kayak Time Trial	9:30a-12:30p
August 4	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Men’s Extreme Kayak Heats Women’s Extreme Kayak Heats	9:30a-11:25a
August 5	Canoe/Kayak Slalom	Women’s Extreme Kayak Quarterfinals Men’s Extreme Kayak Quarterfinals Women’s Extreme Kayak Semifinals Men’s Extreme Kayak Semifinals Women’s Extreme Kayak Small Final Men’s Extreme Kayak Small Final Women’s Extreme Kayak Final Men’s Extreme Kayak Final	9:30a-11:30a
August 6	Canoe/Kayak Sprint	Men’s Kayak Single 1000m Heats Women’s Kayak Single 500m Heats Men’s Canoe Double 500m Heats Women’s Canoe Double 500m Heats Men’s Kayak Four 500m Heats Women’s Kayak Four 500m Heats Men’s Kayak Single 1000m Quarterfinals Women’s Kayak Single 500m Quarterfinals Men’s Canoe Double 500m Quarterfinals Women’s Canoe Double 500m Quarterfinals	3:30a-9:10a
August 7	Canoe/Kayak Sprint	Women’s Canoe Single 200m Heats Men’s Kayak Double 500m Heats Women’s Kayak Double 500m Heats Men’s Canoe Single 1000m Heats Women’s Canoe Single 200m Quarterfinals Men’s Kayak Double 500m Quarterfinals Women’s Kayak Double 500m Quarterfinals Men’s Canoe Single 1000m Quarterfinals	3:30a-8:50a
August 8	Canoe/Kayak Sprint	Men’s Canoe Double 500m Semifinals Women’s Canoe Double 500m Semifinals Women’s Kayak Four 500m Semifinals Men’s Kayak Four 500m Semifinals Men’s Canoe Double 500m Final B Women’s Canoe Double 500m Final B Men’s Canoe Double 500m Final A Women’s Canoe Double 500m Final A Women’s Kayak Four 500m Final A Men’s Kayak Four 500m Final A	4:30a-8:30a
August 9	Canoe/Kayak Sprint	Women’s Canoe Single 200m Semifinals Women’s Kayak Double 500m Semifinals Men’s Kayak Double 500m Semi-finals Women’s Canoe Single 200m Final B Women’s Canoe Single 200m Final A Women’s Kayak Double 500m Final A Women’s Kayak Double 500m Final B Men’s Kayak Double 500m Final B Men’s Kayak Double 500m Final A	4:30a-8:20a
August 10	Canoe/Kayak Sprint	Men’s Canoe Single 1000m Semifinals Men’s Kayak Single 1000m Semifinals Women’s Kayak Single 500m Semifinals Men’s Canoe Single 1000m Final B Men’s Canoe Single 1000m Final A Men’s Kayak Single 1000m Final B Men’s Kayak Single 1000m Final A Women’s Kayak Single 500m Final C Women’s Kayak Single 500m Final B Women’s Kayak Single 500m Final A	3:30a-7:10a

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