Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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 2016 for Slalom 15–20 August 2016 for Sprint
No. of events	16
Competitors	334 from 53 nations

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

Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, from 7 to 11 August, and canoe sprint, from 15 to 20 August. The slalom competition was held at the Olympic Whitewater Stadium; whereas the sprint events were 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.

Around 330 athletes participated in 16 events.

Qualification

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.

Competition schedule

H

Heats

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Slalom

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

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

Participating nations

•  Argentina (10)
•  Australia (18)
•  Austria (2)
•  Azerbaijan (4)
•  Belarus (12)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (13)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Canada (9)
•  China (10)
•  Cook Islands (2)
•  Cuba (6)
•  Czech Republic (12)
•  Denmark (5)
•  Ecuador (1)
•  Egypt (2)
•  France (17)
•  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 (5)
•  Uzbekistan (4)

Competitors

Main article: List of canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Medal summary

By event

Slalom

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

Sprint

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 200 metres	Yuriy Cheban  Ukraine	Valentin Demyanenko  Azerbaijan	Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil
C-1 1000 metres	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil	Ilia Shtokalov  Russia
C-2 1000 metres	Sebastian Brendel Jan Vandrey  Germany	Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz  Brazil	Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk  Ukraine
K-1 200 metres	Liam Heath  Great Britain	Maxime Beaumont  France	Saúl Craviotto  Spain Ronald Rauhe  Germany
K-1 1000 metres	Marcus Walz  Spain	Josef Dostál  Czech Republic	Roman Anoshkin  Russia
K-2 200 metres	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro  Spain	Liam Heath Jon Schofield  Great Britain	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas  Lithuania
K-2 1000 metres	Max Rendschmidt Marcus Gross  Germany	Marko Tomićević Milenko Zorić  Serbia	Ken Wallace Lachlan Tame  Australia
K-4 1000 metres	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

• ^{Men's C-1 1000 metres} Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova finished third, but was stripped of his bronze medal due to a failed doping test.

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 200 metres	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	Marta Walczykiewicz  Poland	Inna Osypenko-Radomska  Azerbaijan
K-1 500 metres	Danuta Kozák  Hungary	Emma Jørgensen  Denmark	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand
K-2 500 metres	Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák  Hungary	Franziska Weber Tina Dietze  Germany	Beata Mikołajczyk Karolina Naja  Poland
K-4 500 metres	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

By nation

Key

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

See also

• Paracanoeing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

External links

• Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• Results Book – Canoe Slalom
• Results Book – Canoe Sprint
• International Canoe Federation