Ryan Cuthbert (born December 13, 1979, in
Carleton Place, Ontario
Carleton Place is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in Lanark County, about west of downtown Ottawa. It is located at the crossroads of Highway 15 and Highway 7, halfway between the towns of Perth, Almonte, Smiths Falls, and the nation's ...
) is a Canadian
sprint canoer
Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water.
Overview
Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...
who has competed since the mid-2000s. Competing in two
Summer Olympics
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, he earned his best finish of ninth in the
K-4 1000 m event at
Athens
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in
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
1979 births
Canadian male canoeists
Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Canada
People from Carleton Place
Sportspeople from Lanark County
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