Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Canoeing at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Pictograms for the Slalom (left) and Sprint (right)
Venue	Olympic Whitewater Stadium (slalom) Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (sprint)
Dates	7–11 August for Slalom 15–20 August for Sprint
Competitors	334
«2012	2020»

Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of canoeists
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 200 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 200 m		men		women
K-1 500 m				women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 200 m		men
K-2 500 m				women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

The canoeing races at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeirowere contested in two main disciplines: the slalom, from 7 to 11 August,^[1]and the sprint, from 15 to 20 August.^[2] The slalom canoe competition was held at the Olympic Whitewater Stadium; whereas the sprint events was staged at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Copacabana. The location for canoeing events was a source of concern for athletes since the Brazilian federal government’s Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab has found the genes of drug-resistant super bacteria in Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.^[3][4]

Around 330 athletes participated in 16 events

Qualification[edit]

Main article: Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A new qualification system had been created for both slalom and sprint canoeing at the 2016 Olympic Games. The quotas were set for each event by the International Canoe Federation in August 2014.^[5]

Competition schedule[edit]

H

Heats

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Slalom^[6]

Event↓/Date →	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9		Wed 10		Thu 11
Men’s C-1	H		½	F
Men’s C-2		H					½	F
Men’s K-1	H				½	F
Women’s K-1		H					½	F

Sprint^[6]

Event↓/Date →	Mon 15		Tue 16	Wed 17		Thu 18	Fri 19		Sat 20
Men’s C-1 200 m				H	½	F
Men’s C-1 1000 m	H	½	F
Men’s C-2 1000 m							H	½	F
Men’s K-1 200 m							H	½	F
Men’s K-1 1000 m	H	½	F
Men’s K-2 200 m				H	½	F
Men’s K-2 1000 m				H	½	F
Men’s K-4 1000 m							H	½	F
Women’s K-1 200 m	H	½	F
Women’s K-1 500 m				H	½	F
Women’s K-2 500 m	H	½	F
Women’s K-4 500 m							H	½	F

Participating[edit]

Participating nations[edit]

• Argentina (10)
• Australia (18)
• Austria (2)
• Azerbaijan (4)
• Belarus (12)
• Belgium (1)
• Brazil (10)
• Bulgaria (2)
• Canada (9)
• China (10)
• Cook Islands (2)
• Cuba (6)
• Czech Republic (12)
• Denmark (5)
• Ecuador (1)
• Egypt (2)
• France (15)
• Georgia (1)
• Germany (16)
• Great Britain (11)
• Hungary (18)
• Italy (4)
• Japan (5)
• Kazakhstan (13)
• Latvia (2)
• Lebanon (1)
• Lithuania (6)
• Moldova (1)
• Morocco (1)
• Mexico (1)
• Mozambique (2)
• New Zealand (9)
• Nigeria (1)
• Palau (1)
• Poland (15)
• Portugal (7)
• Romania (8)
• Russia (19)
• Samoa (1)
• São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
• Senegal (3)
• Serbia (10)
• Slovakia (12)
• Slovenia (6)
• South Africa (1)
• South Korea (2)
• Spain (11)
• Sweden (5)
• Tunisia (3)
• Turkey (1)
• Ukraine (9)
• United States (6)
• Uzbekistan (4)

Competitors[edit]

Main article: List of canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Medalists[edit]

Medal table[edit]

Key

*   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	2	1	7
2	Spain	3	0	1	4
3	Hungary	3	0	0	3
4	Great Britain	2	2	0	4
5	France	1	1	1	3
6	New Zealand	1	1	1	3
7	Slovakia	1	2	0	3
8	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
9	Brazil*	0	2	1	3
10	Azerbaijan	0	1	1	2
	Czech Republic	0	1	2	3
	Poland	0	1	1	2
13	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
16	Australia	0	0	2	2
17	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	17	49

Slalom[edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men’s C-1 details	Denis Gargaud Chanut  France	Matej Beňuš  Slovakia	Takuya Haneda  Japan
Men’s C-2 details	Slovakia (SVK) Ladislav Škantár Peter Škantár	Great Britain (GBR) David Florence Richard Hounslow	France (FRA) Gauthier Klauss Matthieu Péché
Men’s K-1 details	Joseph Clarke  Great Britain	Peter Kauzer  Slovenia	Jiří Prskavec  Czech Republic
Women’s K-1 details	Maialen Chourraut  Spain	Luuka Jones  New Zealand	Jessica Fox  Australia

Sprint[edit]

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men’s C-1 200 m details	Yuriy Cheban  Ukraine	Valentin Demyanenko  Azerbaijan	Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil
Men’s C-1 1000 m details	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil	Serghei Tarnovschi  Moldova
Men’s C-2 1000 m details	Sebastian Brendel Jan Vandrey  Germany	Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil	Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk  Ukraine
Men’s K-1 200 m details	Liam Heath  Great Britain	Maxime Beaumont  France	Saúl Craviotto  Spain Ronald Rauhe  Germany
Men’s K-1 1000 m details	Marcus Walz  Spain	Josef Dostál  Czech Republic	Roman Anoshkin  Russia
Men’s K-2 200 m details	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro  Spain	Liam Heath Jon Schofield  Great Britain	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas  Lithuania
Men’s K-2 1000 m details	Germany (GER) Max Rendschmidt Marcus Gross	Serbia (SRB) Marko Tomićević Milenko Zorić	Australia (AUS) Ken Wallace Lachlan Tame
Men’s K-4 1000 m details	Germany (GER) Max Rendschmidt Tom Liebscher Max Hoff Marcus Gross	Slovakia (SVK) Denis Myšák Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr Tibor Linka	Czech Republic (CZE) Daniel Havel Lukáš Trefil Josef Dostál Jan Štěrba

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women’s K-1 200 m details	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	Marta Walczykiewicz  Poland	Inna Osypenko-Radomska  Azerbaijan
Women’s K-1 500 m details	Danuta Kozák  Hungary	Emma Jørgensen  Denmark	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand
Women’s K-2 500 m details	Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák  Hungary	Franziska Weber Tina Dietze  Germany	Beata Mikołajczyk Karolina Naja  Poland
Women’s K-4 500 m details	Hungary (HUN) Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Tamara Csipes Krisztina Fazekas	Germany (GER) Sabrina Hering Franziska Weber Steffi Kriegerstein Tina Dietze	Belarus (BLR) Marharyta Makhneva Nadzeya Liapeshka Volha Khudzenka Maryna Litvinchuk

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