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The Outrigger Canoe Club bought the original Mālia in 1940, [2] and the Waikiki Surf Club acquired it in 1948, keeping it in use until 1988. [6] From 1950-1951, the design of Malia was modified by Froiseth, Downing, and Choy. [5] In 1959, the original Mālia won the first outrigger canoe race to Catalina Island in California. After the race ...
Hamilton Island Race Week has a number of social events at the island resort during the Hamilton Island Cup event. The most famous event is King of the Mountain footrace, where runners must race a steep 6 km loop from the resort centre to Passage Peak (the highest peak in the Whitsunday Islands at 234 metres). [4] [5]
The ICF Canoe Ocean Racing World Championships are an international event involving long distance surf ski ocean races. Races are divided into single-paddler (SS1) senior, junior and masters age-group categories. The Championships have been held every two years since debuting in 2013, then switched into being held annually since 2021. [1]
The race is the main event of the 17 day carnival. While this event draws quite the crowd the Saint Lawrence River is the only place in the world where this grueling sport is practiced.
The race is about 1,000 miles down the Yukon River, making it the world's longest canoe race. [1] The route is remote, sparsely populated, and has long stretches without access. Past Dawson City, around 450 miles into the race, competitors are beyond helicopter range and rescues are estimated to take 24-72 hours. [2]
The Payne–Mortlock Sailing Canoe is a 5.8m, two person, senior racing dinghy, rigged with a mainsail, jib and spinnaker.Designed in the mid-late 1940s by Alan Payne, (also known for designing the Australian America's Cup Challengers, Gretel and Gretel II), Bill Payne and Bryce Mortlock, the class has been sailed in Australia for over 50 years, and is one of the few senior classes that were ...
Maria "Marijke" Kegge-Deege (born 26 July 1957) is a Dutch canoe sprinter who competed in the early 1980s. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , she was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event.
Canoe racing: Club: Jönköpings KK: Per Gunnar Larsson (born 30 January 1946) is a retired Swedish sprint canoer. He was part of four-men teams that finished fourth ...