Olympic Games - Canoeing
Canoeing first entered the Olympic Games in 1936 in Berlin, having been a demonstration sport at the 1924 Games in Paris. There are two disciplines, slalom (individual runs through gates set on a white water course against the clock, with time penalties awarded for ocontacting any of the gates) and sprint (races over a straight, flat water course).
Two styles of boats are used. Canoes with one or two canoers and kayaks with one, two or four kayakers. C-1 is a canoe singles event, K-2 is a kayak doubles event and so on.
The men's 500-metre events will be replaced at the 2012 Games in London by 200m events.
The venue used in 2008 was the Shunyi Park, Beijing, China
2008 Medallists
| | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE |
| M C1S | MICHAL MARTIKAN (Svk) | D Florence (Gbr) | R Bell (Aus) |
| M C2S | PAVOL HOCHSCHORNER & PETER HOCHSCHORNER (Svk) | J Volf & O Stepanek (Cze) | M Kuznetsov & D Larionov (Rus) |
| M K1S | ALEXANDER GRIMM (Ger) | F Lefevre (Fra) | B Boukpeti (Tgo) |
| W K1S | ELENA KALISKA (Svk) | J Lawrence (Aus) | V Ob-Peters (Aut) |
| M C15 | MAXIM OPALEV (Rus) | D Cal (Esp) | L Cheban (Ukr) |
| M C11 | ATTILA VAJDA (Hun) | D Cal (Esp) | T Hall (Can) |
| M C25 | MENG GUANLIANG & YANG WENJUN (Chn) | S Ulegin & A Kostoglod (Rus) | C Gille & T Wylenzek (Ger) |
| M C21 | ANDREI BAHDANOVICH & ALIAKSANDR BAHDANOVICH (Blr) | C Gille & T Wylenzek (Ger) | G Kozmann & T Kiss (Hun) |
| M K15 | KEN WALLACE (Aus) | A v K'verden (Can) | T Brabants (Gbr) |
| M K11 | TIM BRABANTS (Gbr) | E V Larsen (Nor) | K Wallace (Aus) |
| M K25 | SAUK CRAVIOTTO & CARLOS PEREZ (Esp) | R Rauhe & T Wieskotter (Ger) | R Piatrushenka & V Makhneu (Blr) |
| M K21 | MARTIN HOLLSTEIN & ANDREAS ILHE (Ger) | K W Knudsen & R H Poulsen (Den) | A Facchin & A Scaduto (Ita) |
| M K41 | BELARUS | Slovakia | Germany |
| W K15 | INNA RADOMSKA (Ukr) | J Idem (Ita) | K W-A'gustin (Ger) |
| W K25 | KATALIN KOVACS & NATASA JANICS (Hun) | B Mikolajczyk & A Konieczna (Pol) | M Delattre & A-L Viard (Fra) |
| W K45 | GERMANY | Hungary | Australia |
| M = Men's W = Women's C1S = Single Canoe Slalom C2S = Double Canoe Slalom K1S = Single Kayak Slalom C15 = Single Canoe Sprint 500m C11 = Double Canoe Sprint 1000m C25 = Single Canoe Sprint 500m C21 = Double Canoe Sprint 1000m K15 = Single Kayak Sprint 500m K11 = Double Kayak Sprint 1000m K25 = Single Kayak Sprint 500m K21 = Double Kayak Sprint 1000m K41 = Quadruple Kayak Sprint 1000m K45 = Quadruple Kayak Sprint 500m Links to other Olympics |