Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park

The Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park (simplified Chinese: 顺义奥林匹克水上公园; traditional Chinese: 順義奧林匹克水上公園; pinyin: Shùnyì Àolínpǐkè Shuǐshàng Gōngyuán)[1] was built for the rowing, canoeing and 10 km open-water swimming events in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The first competitions at the venue were held in August 2007, a year ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games for which it was built.

Powered by electric pumps, the slalom course is located at the southwest corner of the long rectangular rowing pond, from which it draws its water.

The green and red numbers on the map show the gate configuration used for the finals at the 2008 Olympics.

[5] The last picture in the gallery below shows construction features which have recently become standard for such courses: vertical side walls (except for strategically placed slanted walls to dampen water oscillations), modular turbulence generators on the channel floor, and clusters of movable plastic bollards attached to the floor as water diverters.