2005 Buyer’s Guide: Performance Gretzky with a by Joe Glickman photo by Katherine Breen


For the past three decades Serge Corbin has turned marathon canoeing into a battle for second place


WHEN COMPETITORS show up at a marathon canoe race and see Serge Corbin at the start line they have good reason to feel discouraged. The 48-year-old part-time boat builder and pro paddler has posted a record of sheer dominance that few athletes in any sport can claim. Over the past 30 years he has main- tained a winning percent- age of 90 per cent, notching 470 wins in 523 races. If you own a thoroughbred, seri- ously consider naming your steed Serge.


Corbin’s Gretzky-esque dominance of his sport has been most evident in the


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