Colin Shaw (canoeist)
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
World Championships | ||
1985 Mechelen | K-2 1000 m |
Colin Shaw (born March 17, 1954, in Powell River, British Columbia) is a retired Canadian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won bronze medal with partner Don Brien in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1985 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mechelen.
Shaw also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of ninth in the K-4 1000 m event at Los Angeles in 1984.
References
[edit]- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Sports-reference.com profile
Categories:
- 1954 births
- Canadian male canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- People from Powell River, British Columbia
- Olympic canoeists for Canada
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen
- Canadian canoeist stubs