British Canoeing would like everyone to log the miles they paddle during Go Canoeing Week (28th May – 5th June 2016) to help reach the 30,000 mile target. You can help by logging the miles you did at the regatta.

For more information, and to log your miles, please go to: http://www.gocanoeingweek.org.uk/log-miles. You have until midday on Monday 13th June 2016.

 
British Canoeing has published the Senior and Olympic Selection Policy 2016 and is available on the following link: British Canoeing Sprint Senior and Olympic Selection Policy 2016.

Following a hard winter’s training, the ‘road to Rio’ finally gets underway for Paracanoe athletes this week. The British team selected for the Senior European Championships is heading off to Račice, Czech Republic this weekend to make final preparations ahead of the event which takes place there 1-3 May.

The selections, approved by British Canoeing’s International Panel, follow the April Regatta at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham (11-12 April 2015).

This is welcome news for the seven paddlers, following a challenging few months … read more.

Each season prior to the commencement of the competition season, British Canoeing publishes the qualifying criteria to be considered for the Olympic and Paralympic programmes for the following season … read more.

The matrix for consideration for the PODIUM PROGRAMME has been published: click here.

The matrix for consideration for the PODIUM POTENTIAL/OLYMPIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME will be published by 1st May 2015.

A cold damp hut to get changed in and top of the range equipment stored in the open air – not the way you’d expect Olympic medalists to be training … watch the BBC South video

Britain’s top Canoe Sprint athletes returned from their warm weather training camp in Brazil this week in time to celebrate the opening of their new elite training centre at Dorney Lake near Windsor.

London 2012 Olympic medallists Ed McKeever, Jonathan Schofield and Liam Heath, along with other squad members were there to welcome Helen Grant MP, Minister for Sport and Tourism, as she performed the official opening.

The facility will be known as the Tim Brabants Elite Training Centre, in recognition of Britain’s most successful Canoe Sprint athlete of all time and the sport’s first ever Olympic gold medallist in 2008.

Tim, who retired from the sport after London 2012, is set to visit the centre later this spring on his return from working as a doctor in South Africa … read more.