Richard Dalton (canoeist)

Richard Dalton
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
2002 Seville C-2 1000 m
2005 Zagreb C-1 1000 m
2010 Poznań C-1 200 m
Pan American Games
2011 Guadalajara C-1 200 m

Richard Dalton (born August 27, 1979) is an Irish-born, Canadian sprint canoer. He has won three bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (C-1 200 m: 2010 - tied with Ukraine's Yuriy Cheban, C-1 1000 m: 2005, C-2 1000 m: 2002).

He also won a C-2 silver medal at the 2000 world marathon championships in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The distance at a marathon event varies between 36 and 40 km.

Dalton competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, earning sixth place in both the C-1 500 m and C-1 1000 m events.

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