Larry Cain
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| Full name | Laurence J. Cain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 9, 1963 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Oakville, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | C-1 500 m, C-1 1000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Burloak Canoe Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laurence J. "Larry" Cain, CM (born January 9, 1963) is a Canadian sprint canoeist. He was the first Canadian canoeist since Frank Amyot to win an Olympic gold medal in canoeing.
Early life
[edit]Cain was born in Toronto, Ontario. He attended Oakville Trafalgar High School.
Career
[edit]Cain began his career in 1974 at the Oakville Racing Canoe Club, now the Burloak Canoe Club, in Oakville, Ontario.[1]
Cain competed in three Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the C-1 500 m,[2] and a silver medal in the C1 1000 m[2] events. He also won a silver medal in the C-1 1000 m event at the 1989 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Plovdiv.[3]
In 1984, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[4] In 1997, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. A trail in Oakville has been named in his honour running along the town's waterfront where Cain trained.[5]
Cain taught Physical Education at St. Mildred's-Lightbourn School until 2014.[5][6] He then worked as a coach, preparing paddlers for the Olympic Games in Rio.[6]
In 2016 Cain founded an online paddle-training company called Paddle Monster for standup paddleboarding.[7] Cain also coached High Performance Canoeing at Burloak Canoe Club.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Larry Cain". Oakville Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
- ^ a b Kamber, Raymond. Medal Winners Since 1936 - 2007 (PDF). Canoe ICF. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ^ Kamber, Raymond. Medal Winners Since 1936 - 2007 (PDF). Canoe ICF. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2009-01-21.
- ^ "Order of Canada". Governor General of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
- ^ a b "Larry Cain Trail". Oakville Trails. Town of Oakville. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
- ^ a b "Olympic canoe champion Larry Cain carves niche in paddleboard racing". CTV News, Donna Spencer, December 26, 2016
- ^ "Olympic canoeist Larry Cain back on the water – as a paddleboard coach". DONNA SPENCER. The Globe and Mail, December 26, 2016
- ^ "Stand-up paddleboarding: Sport federations squabble over control". Michael Drapack · CBC News · Oct 31, 2017
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Larry Cain at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame citation
- CBC archives
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Larry Cain". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- Paddle Monster
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Canadian educators
- Canadian male canoeists
- McMaster University alumni
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Olympic canoeists for Canada
- Olympic gold medalists for Canada
- Olympic silver medalists for Canada
- Sportspeople from Oakville, Ontario
- Canoeists from Toronto
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Canadian schoolteachers
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Canadian sportsmen