Scott Shipley
Introduction '''Scott R. Shipley''' (born May 15, 1971 in Poulsbo, Washington) is an American slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1988 to 2004.He won three silver medals in the K1 event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, earning them in 1995, 1997, and 1999.He won the overall World Cup title in K1 three times (1993, 1995 and 1997). In 2010, he became U.S. national champion in C2.Shipley also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fifth in the K1 event in Sydney in 2000.With Mechanical Engineering degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelors 2001, Masters 2002, he retired from full-time competition for a job with S2O Design and Engineering, in Boulder, Colorado. In that job, he assisted Gary Lacy (the engineer of record) in the design of the $37 million U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, which opened in 2006.In a redesign of the man-made whitewater park concept, Shipley is patenting Rapidblocs—plastic structures that can be moved to create different rapids. Rapidblocs are utilized in the London Olympic Whitewater Park, whose rapids his company, S2o, designed. The Rapidblocs allow the park to adjust their rapids to appeal to a wider audience than the Olympic Kayakers that will utilize them in the games.
World Cup individual podiums   Total K1  11  5  8  '''24'''SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent '''1992'''  31 May 1992  Nottingham 1st  K1 '''1993'''  18 July 1993  La Seu d'Urgell 2nd  K1 21 August 1993  Minden 3rd  K1 31 August 1993  Ocoee 1st  K1 '''1994'''  10 July 1994  Bourg St.-Maurice 1st  K1 18 September 1994  Asahi, Aichi 3rd  K1 '''1995'''  16 July 1995 Lofer 2nd  K1 1 October 1995  Ocoee 1st  K1 '''1996'''  21 April 1996  Ocoee 1st  K1 9 June 1996  La Seu d'Urgell 2nd  K1 16 June 1996  Augsburg 3rd  K1 '''1997'''  29 June 1997  Björbo 3rd  K1 28 July 1997  Ocoee 2nd  K1 3 August 1997  Minden 1st  K1'''1998'''  14 June 1998  Liptovský Mikuláš 1st  K1 28 June 1998  Augsburg 3rd  K1 2 August 1998  Wausau 1st  K1'''1999'''  20 June 1999  Tacen 1st  K1 24 June 1999  Tacen 3rd  K1 15 August 1999  Bratislava 2nd  K1 22 August 1999  Augsburg 1st  K1 3 October 1999  Penrith 3rd  K1 '''2000'''  30 April 2000  Penrith 3rd  K1 30 July 2000  Augsburg 1st  K1
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External links * S2o Design website