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Canoe Sprint

The History of Canoe sprint in FISU

Canoe sprint made its first appearance in the FISU sports programme at the Zagreb Summer Universiade in 1987, as an optional sport. The competitions were organised in Jarun on an arm of the Sava River, where in early times the first inhabitants used to travel by kayaks. The participants faced appalling weather conditions during the championship. The competitions were led by the Soviet and Romanian athletes. Among them, the great champion Aurel Macarescu stood out, taking the 500 and the 1,000 metres in the singles C1 race. In 1998 the top university specialists in this sport gathered for the first World University Championship in this discipline. The Hungarian team took six medals, five silver and one bronze, with impressive ease, thus ranking first in the number of medals taken, ahead of Poland and Romania. The second edition of the World University Championship was held in Bari, a modern industrial city on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Sixteen countries with 125 male and 35 female athletes participated. The record number of participating countries and participants was successively broken in 2008 in Belgrade and later on in Poznan, with 23 participating countries and 190 competitors for both competitions.

FISU Regulations

The canoe sprint competition has its own FISU Regulations following the most recent rules of the International Canoe Federation (ICF). The FISU Regulations are always set up after the recommendation of the FISU Technical Chair and the ICF Technical Delegate in close cooperation with the Committee for Sportis Regulations, and approved by the FISU Executive Committee. In principle, the programme shall last three (3) days and include the events below.
Each country may enter only one (1) competing boat i.e. an individual for participation in separate events.

Men	Canoe 1	200 m, 500 m, 1000 m
	Canoe 2	200 m, 500 m, 1000 m
	Canoe 4	200 m, 500 m, 1000 m
	Kayak 1	200 m, 500 m, 1000 m
	Kayak 2	200 m, 500 m, 1000 m
	Kayak 4	200 m, 500 m, 1000 m
Women	Kayak 1	200 m, 500 m
	Kayak 2	200 m, 500 m
	Kayak 4	200 m, 500 m

Minimum Requirements for Canoe Sprint

With the canoe sprint CT approval, the Organising Committee must provide, for exclusive use, outdoor sports facilities in all competition and training facilities for men's and women's canoe sprint events. The ICF regulations must be followed.

Competition and Training Facilities

Type of Venue	Number of Venues	Changing Room Competitors	Changing Room TOJR*	Spectator Seating	Press and Media Seating
Outdoor Facilities	1	Gender Segregated	x	1 000	50