Guy Dresser | Royal Canoe Club - Fancy a coaching job in Canada? The country’s national governing body for canoeing is looking for a top Women’s Kayak Coach. Reporting to the country’s newly appointed high performance director, Scott Logan, the ideal candidate will already have a successful track record of coaching at international level.

The coach will work at a location to be decided by Logan, although the adverts states ‘Ontario’. The job advert is available on the Global Sports Jobs website.

The previous national women’s kayak coach was Fred Loyer, a French national. He was appointed early 2011.

The search for a new coach appears to reflect considerable dissatisfaction with the current state of the women’s kayak team. Just one Canadian, Emilie Fournel, qualified for London and she went out in the semis, finishing 14th in the K1 500m event.

In CanoeKayak Canada’s (CKC) annual report for 2012, the assessment of women’s kayaking was that it could do a lot better.

The report noted: “Of course our high performance success was neither as deep nor as broad as we want it to be….Success will also require that we qualify a larger team of medal contenders. We recognize that the women’s kayak team in particular are not satisfied with their standing and we are committed to working with the team to improve performance and support.”

Canada’s results in London overall were pretty impressive with three podium performances - Adam van Koeverden won silver in the men’s K1 1,000m; Mark Oldershaw took bronze  in men’s C1 1,000m, and  Mark de Jonge picked up bronze in the men’s K1 200m. Although Canada was 11th overall in the medal table (based on gold medals), in terms of total medals it tied for third (excluding golds).

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