Föreningen för Kanot-Idrott, FKI, or in international context Stockholm Canoe Club, is a canoe club based in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. Founded in 1900, it is Sweden's oldest canoe club and precedes the national canoe organization ''Svenska Kanotförbundet'' by four years. The club is open for

paddling Paddling, in regard to waterborne transport, is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using at least one hand-held paddle. The paddle, which consists of one or two blades joined to a shaft, is also used to steer the vessel via generatin ...

and

canoe sailing Canoe sailing refers to the practice of fitting an Austronesian outrigger or Western canoe with sails. Austronesian sailing canoes The outrigger canoe was one of the key technological innovations of the Austronesian peoples. Although there is l ...

. The club is based on the islet of Måsholmen, just off

Djurgården Djurgården ( or ) or, more officially, , is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open-air museum Skansen, the small resident ...

in central Stockholm. The Stockholm Canoe Club pioneered paddling and canoe sailing in Sweden, inspired by the Swedish naval officer Carl Smith and indirectly by John MacGregor's 1866 canoe tour from

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to Stockholm. A number of the club's members have contributed own innovative canoe designs, e.g. Sven Thorell, Gerhard Högborg, Arvid Rosengren and Nils-Göran Bennich-Björkman. An early permanent member of the club was the British maritime historian and sailor of small boats and canoes, R. C. Anderson, who wrote about several of his canoe tours in Nordic waters. Since 1902, the club arranges ''Djurgårdsloppet'', a 9 km kayak race around Djurgården island. The Djurgårdsloppet race is one of the oldest regular sports competitions in Sweden.

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External links

FKI official website
Canoe clubs in Sweden 1900 establishments in Sweden Sports clubs and teams in Stockholm Yacht clubs in Sweden 1900s establishments in Stockholm {{Sweden-stub