Kayak slalom is a planned occasion where contenders explore a whitewater course by going through a mix of upstream and downstream doors. Each course is extraordinary yet can be a limit of 300 meters long and contain a limit of 25 entryways, with at least six upstream doors. The kind of entryway is assigned by shading, red for upstream and green for downstream. Courses are planned so the main competitors will finish them in a period of somewhere in the range of 90 and 110 seconds, however time punishments can be brought about for contacting a door (two seconds) and missing an entryway (50 seconds).

Kayak slalom is challenged by two sorts of boat, kayak © and kayak (K). In kayak, a solitary sharp edge paddle is utilized by a competitor who is tied into the boat with their legs twisted at the knees and tucked under their body, rather than the twofold bladed oar utilized in a situated situation in kayak. At worldwide level there are four individual occasions (K1W, K1M, C1W, C1M). The C1W occasion will make its introduction at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, supplanting the men’s C2, which had been essential for the Olympic program in 1972 and afterward from 1992 until 2016.

The choice to supplant the men’s C2 with the ladies’ C1 for the 2020 Olympics was taken to guarantee slalom met the IOC’s sexual orientation value standards.

Kayak slalom started in Switzerland in 1933 as a mid year choice to slalom skiing, and was at first contended on a flatwater course. Switzerland facilitated the main big showdowns in Geneva in 1949 and the order made its Olympic presentation as a presentation sport at the 1972 Games in Munich, when every one of the four gold decorations were won by East Germany. It was a further 20 years before kayak slalom got back to the Olympic Games, yet this time as a center game.

Slovakia (7) hold the record for most gold decorations in kayak slalom at the Olympic Games. It is the solitary game Slovakia has asserted a gold award in at the late spring Games. The solitary three individuals to guarantee multiple decorations in the order at the Games are for the most part Slovakian - Michal Martikán (two gold, two silver, one bronze) and twins Pavol and Peter Hochschorner (three gold and one bronze). The Hochschorners completed on the platform in the C2M at four back to back Olympic Games - 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

France (57) has won the most world titles in kayak slalom, however joining Czechoslovakia (33), Czech Republic (30) and Slovakia (25) would both surpass that complete. Martikán (15) has won the most world titles in the control (individual and group occasions), while the main female is Jessica Fox (10) of Australia. A paddler speaking to Africa has never completed in the main three at the big showdowns, yet in 2008 in Beijing, Benjamin Boukpeti guaranteed Togo’s first decoration in any game at the Olympic Games when he took bronze in the K1M.

Things you need to know

Canoe slalom is a race with time as the opponent through a blend of up and downstream doors on a whitewater course.

The course length and number of doors shifts with a limit of 25 entryways and length of 300 meters.

The course is set with a blend of upstream and downstream doors; each presents an extraordinary test for the competitor, altogether testing their capacity to peruse and work with the water stream while keeping up their direction, equilibrium and speed.

The heading the competitor should go through each door is demonstrated by shading: red for upstream and green for downstream.

There are at least six upstream doors on each course.

Course originators set the door designs with the point of using the water highlights - vortexes, waves and plugs - to make a serious course. No two courses are the equivalent.

The course is planned so the quickest competitors will stop-the-clock between 90 to 110 seconds.

Competitors can cause time punishments with two-seconds added for an entryway contact and 50-seconds for missing a door.

Global rivalries have a capability round followed by an elimination round and last with just 10 competitors in the last.

There are six occasions inside kayak slalom with the two people challenging the kayak and kayak singles (K1W, K1M, C1W, C1M); there is additionally blended kayak pairs.

The Olympic Program as of now comprises of four classes K1M, K1W, C1M and C1W.

The contrast between a kayak and a kayak is straightforward; it’s the quantity of cutting edges on the oar and the competitor’s situation in the boat.

In kayak, the paddler is situated and utilizes a twofold bladed oar getting the edge through the water on substitute sides to drive the boat forward.

In kayak, the oar has a solitary edge and the competitor is lashed into the boat with their legs bowed at the knees and tucked under their body.

Key achievements

Kayak slalom, which was initially demonstrated on ski slalom, started in Switzerland in 1933 on flatwater, however before long changed to whitewater rapids.

The main Slalom World Championships were held in 1949 in Geneva under the protection of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) and were a half-yearly occasion until 1999.

Since 2002, the senior World Championships are run each non-Olympic year with Junior and U23 age classes challenged yearly since 2012.

In the 1960’s waterways started to be redirected from streams to make committed man-made rivalry runs.

Kayak slalom was a presentation sport at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, and turned into a center game at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.

The Augsburg Eiskanal course that was utilized for the Munich Games was the main fake whitewater course developed and set the outline for advanced rivalry courses.

The ladies’ C1 class was presented at the 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and will make its Olympic introduction in 2020 at the Tokyo Games.

Boat configuration has changed significantly since the games commencement with material collapsing kayaks supplanted by fiberglass and now carbon fiber.