WOMEN PAIR KAYAK FLATWATER SPRINT

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WOMEN PAIR KAYAK FLATWATER SPRINT

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:29 pm

For the Olympic Summer games in Atlanta USA, Ghana Post issued in 1996 four stamps for previous Olympic medal winners. One stamp C800 shows us the Russian Gold Medal winners Mariya Shubina and Antonina Seredina in the women kayak-2 500 metres in Rome in 1960.

(The designer of the stamp has not much understanding how to paddle a kayak it looks that the first rower has the paddle behind his back.)

The women's K-2 500 metres event was a pairs kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1960 Summer Olympics program on Lake Albano, Italy. This event debuted at these Olympics though it is one of two events that has been at every ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Flatwater sprint
Sprint kayak
Sprint kayak is a sport held on calm water. Crews or individuals race over 200 m, 500 m, 1000 m or 5000 m with the winning boat being the first to cross the finish line. The paddler is seated, facing forward, and uses a double-bladed paddle pulling the blade through the water on alternate sides to propel the boat forward. In competition the number of paddlers within a boat is indicated by a figure besides the type of boat; K1 signifies an individual kayak race, K2 pairs, and K4 four-person crews. Kayak sprint has been in every summer olympics since it debuted at the 1936 summer olympics. Racing is governed by the International Canoe Federation.
Much more is given on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayak#Flatwater_sprint

Ghana 1996 C800 sg?, scott?
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