PARIS, Aug 6 8Reuters) - New Zealand's five-times Olympic champion Lisa Carrington got a winning start but Denmark's world champions Emma Jorgensen and Frederikke Matthiesen were knocked out as canoe ...

Hungary has the most total canoeing medals in Olympics history with 86: 28 gold, 31 silver and 27 bronze. Germany (34) and the Soviet Union (29), however, have more gold medals. All canoeing events ...

Here's a guide on how scoring works for the canoeing events at the Olympics. The first boat to cross the finish line without any penalties is the winner of the race. To clear the finish line, the bow ...

Sometime before she races across Tokyo Bay, American teenager Nevin Harrison will likely paddle her canoe to a quiet spot and have a good cry. Harrison’s pre-race tears are a pressure-valve release, ...

TOKYO — An American teenager has made history at the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Nevin Harrison, 19, became the first female athlete from the U.S. to win a gold medal in the sport of canoe sprint. By ...

The final four canoe and kayak events of the 2016 Rio Olympics got started on Friday, as the Olympians competed in the preliminary and semifinal rounds. In the first competition of the day, the men ...

Nevin Harrison, a 17-year-old from Seattle, became the first American to earn a world championships medal in a sprint canoe event, and it happened to be gold, surprising herself in the 200m in Szeged, ...

Here’s everything you need to know about watching the 2016 Rio Olympics Canoe and Kayak Sprint events for Wednesday, August 17. The 2016 Rio Olympics canoe and kayak sprint events continue Wednesday, ...

American teen Nevin Harrison won gold in the inaugural women's canoe single 200-meter final in Tokyo on Thursday, becoming the first winner of the Olympic event. She took home the U.S.' first canoe or ...