David Florence
David Florence (born August 8, 1982 in Aberdeen ) is a British canoe slalom driver in the single canoe.
David Florence from Nottingham has belonged to the extended world elite in his sport since the mid-2000s. He competes for the Forth Canoe Club in Edinburgh and is trained by Mark Delaney. Florence started canoeing in 1996. First he started for Union Canal and was trained by Kevin McHugh. Since 2001 the student of mathematical physics at the University of Nottingham has been part of the British national team. At the 2005 World Championships in Penrith , the canoeist finished seventh with the team and 15th in the individual. In La Seu d'Urgell , he was also third in a World Cup race. The following year he finished eighth at the World Cup in Prague as the last of the finals. In Augsburg he also won his first and so far only World Cup race.
Florence achieved his best result at a world championship in 2007 in Foz do Iguaçu with fifth place. The Brit finished fifth with the team. The European championship went less well, Bell finished 20th. He was third in World Cup races three times and finished second in the overall ranking of the World Cup. 2008 brought first a third place in the World Cup race in Prague. With the team's Florence was at the European Championships in Krakow Fifth, in individual 37. The best result of career managed the Briton at the 2008 Olympic Games of Beijing . Florence showed a strong competition. After the preliminary round, he finished second, the semi-finals he finished fourth. In the final he drove the second best time and won the silver medal behind Michal Martikán . In 2009 he won the overall World Cup ranking. In the C-2 he was able to win a World Championship medal for the first time at the 2011 World Championships. Florence competed in two competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . In C-1 he finished tenth, in C-2 he won the silver medal with Richard Hounslow behind his compatriots Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott .
Web links
- Homepage
- David Florence in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait on the website of the British Canoeing Association
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| SURNAME | Florence, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British canoe slalom rider in one canoe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aberdeen |