Category:Canoeing

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Canoeing is an Olympic sport since the Olympic Summer Games 1936 in Berlin (Germany). The competitions are taking place for two styles of boats: canoes ("C") and Kayaks ("K"). The number behind stand for the number of boat occupants ("1","2", or "4"), and additionally for different distances. One distinguishes between "Speed" and "Slalom"-races. The discipline "Canoe-slalom" was introduced in 1972, but 1976-1988 took place no comptetions in this discipline. Firstly again since 1992 it's again an Olympic sport class.