country highestranking birth_place headercolor weight height olympics pb sport birth_date article_title
great britain 7th in world royal malta naval hospital imtarfa , -lsb- rabat -rsb- , silver 141 lb kg 5 ft 7 in m barcelona 1992 7th at nottingham international canoeing 9 november 1966 chris arrowsmith

chris arrowsmith

christopher `` chris '' james arrowsmith born 9th november 1966 at the royal naval hospital imtarfa , rabat , malta is a great britain slalom canoeist who competed from the late-1970s to the early 1990s .
he finished 17th in the c-2 event at the 1992 summer olympics in barcelona .
christopher , along with the rest of his family , was introduced to canoeing at a ` try it ' session in the dorking , surrey swimming pool at the age of 9 .
he started in competitive canoeing in june 1978 , entering the novice event at shepperton weir on the river thames in surrey .
over the next few years along with his stratford on avon kayakists -lrb- soak -rrb- fellow canoeists he compteted in all of the canoe competition discipline 's of : canoe slalom in the discipline 's of kayak singles -lrb- k1 -rrb- , canadian singles -lrb- c1 -rrb- and canadian doubles -lrb- c2 -rrb- - in the canadian classes paddlers kneel in their boat with a small cockpit sealed with a spraydeck .
chris 's slalom ranking history is listed below .
chris 's canoe slalom history : canadian doubles -lrb- c2 -rrb- ranking and results - with paul brain canadian singles -lrb- c1 -rrb- ranking and results kayak singles -lrb- k1 -rrb- ranking and results canoe polo achievements
