Renn Jerome Crichlow ( born May 9, 1968 , Ottawa ) is a Canadian kayaker who played for the Canadian national team in the late 1980s and mid-1990s. Participant of three summer Olympic Games, world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Canada |
| Specialization | kayak , 500 m |
| Club | CC "Rideau" |
| Date of Birth | May 9, 1968 (51 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Ottawa , Canada |
| Height | 187 cm |
| The weight | 92 kg |
Biography
Rennes Crichlow was born on May 9, 1968 in Ottawa . In childhood, he was engaged in various sports, but in the end he made the choice in favor of kayaking, joining the Ottawa rowing club Rideau. Already at the age of sixteen he became the first champion of Canada.
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1988, when he became a member of the Canadian national team and, thanks to a series of successful performances, was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the Seoul Summer Olympics . I started here alone at a distance of 500 meters and in fours at a distance of 1000 meters, but in both of these disciplines I managed to reach only the stage of semifinals.
In 1991, Crichlow performed at the World Championships in Paris, where in a half-kilometer race of single kayaks he overtook all his rivals and thereby won a gold medal. Being one of the leaders of the rowing team of Canada, he successfully qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona - he reached the semi-finals only five hundred meters and finished fifth, while at a thousand meters he managed to break into the final and showed the eighth result in the decisive race.
After the Barcelona Olympics, Rennes Crichlow remained in the main team of the Canadian national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1993, at the world championship in Copenhagen, he won a silver medal in singles at a distance of 500 meters, losing at the finish only to the Olympic champion from Finland Mikko Kolehmainen . Two years later, at the World Championships in Duisburg, Germany, he took bronze alone at a distance of two hundred meters - only Pole Peter Markevich and Belarusian Sergei Kalesnik finished better. Later he went to represent the country at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , where he reached the semi-finals alone at five hundred meters and took seventh place in four at four thousand meters. Soon after the end of these competitions, he decided to end his career as a professional athlete, giving way to young Canadian rowers.
Links
- Rennes Crichlow - Olympic stats on Sports-Reference.com
- Rennes Crichlow - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )