Racing Kayaks have been purpose built for flat water high speed kayak racing often known as Sprint boats they require a lot of experience and skill to paddle. raced at the olympics in three classes for both men and women k1, k2 and k4 classes.

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The Kayak is distinguished from a canoe by having a covered deck and typically a spray deck to protect the canoeist (kayaker) from spray. Kayaks are propelled using a double bladed single paddle. Traditionally Kayaks were used by natives of North America, North eastern Asia & Greenland for sea and river travel. The modern day Kayak has been much developed from its early routes and has diversified into a large number of types ranging from white-water kayaks, Slalom kayaks, Sea Kayaks and Ocean Kayaks. Kayaks are made from a wide number of materials from traditional wood construction through to carbon Kevlar composites.

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Racing Kayaks have been developed for high speed competition on flat water.  The are three main categories of racing kayaks which are sometimes known as sprint boats the K1 a single seated  kayak K2 a two seated kayak and k4 class kayaks for seating 4 people. Racing Kayaks have a long and sleek stream lined design for minimum resistant's in water. Sprint boats (Racing Kayaks) are included in the Olympics over a number of distances from 200m, 500m and 1000m short course sprint races all three classes of kayak racer are included K1, K2 & K4. Sprint boats are designed from light weight hi tech materials to keep the weight to minimum Olympic compliant weight. National Kayak racing competitions take place throughout the world leading up t6o the annual Kayak racing world championships. Sprint Boats( Racing Kayaks) have a narrow width and are not atall stable they are specifically designed for paddling at
high speed over calm flat water and cannot be used in anything approaching ruff water. Because of their unstable nature sprint kayaks
are not the choice for a general kayaker or someone wishing to paddle for recreation they are also amongst the most expensive of kayaks due to their light weight composite materials and specialist kayak niche.

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