Canoeing at the Summer Olympics

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Canoeing/kayaking has been featured as a sport in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1936 Games in Berlin. There are two disciplines of canoeing in Olympic competition: flatwater and slalom.

Two styles of boats are used in this sport, canoes with 1 or 2 canoers and kayaks with 1, 2 or 4 kayakers. This leads to the name designation of each event. For example, "C-1" is a canoe singles event and "K-2" is a kayak doubles event. Races are usually 500 metres or 1000 metres long, although there were also 10 km events from 1936 to 1956.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Flatwater 1.2 Slalom 2 Medal table 2.1 Men's events 2.2 Women's events

[edit] Events

The following tables shows which events were contested at each Games.

[edit] Flatwater

Event	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	Total
Men's C-1 500m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Men's C-1 1000m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	17
Men's C-1 10000m		•	•	•														3
Men's C-2 500m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Men's C-2 1000m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	17
Men's C-2 10000m	•	•	•	•														4
Men's K-1 500m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Men's K-1 1000m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	17
Men's K-1 10000m	•	•	•	•														4
Men's K-1 4×500m					•													1
Men's K-2 500m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Men's K-2 1000m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	17
Men's K-2 10000m	•	•	•	•														4
Men's K-4 1000m						•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	12
Men's folding K-1 10000m	•																	1
Men's folding K-2 10000m	•																	1
Women's K-1 500m		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	16
Women's K-2 500m					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	13
Women's K-4 500m											•	•	•	•	•	•	•	7
Total Events	9	9	9	9	7	7	7	7	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

[edit] Slalom

Event	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	Total
Men's C-1	•					•	•	•	•	•	6
Men's C-2	•					•	•	•	•	•	6
Men's K-1	•					•	•	•	•	•	6
Women's K-1	•					•	•	•	•	•	6
Total Events	4	0	0	0	0	4	4	4	4	4

[edit] Medal table

[edit] Men's events

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	21	13	6	40
2	Germany (GER)	18	14	16	48
3	Hungary (HUN)	13	18	20	51
4	Sweden (SWE)	12	9	2	23
5	Romania (ROM)	9	10	8	27
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7	4	1	12
7	East Germany (GDR)	6	5	9	20
8	France (FRA)	5	5	15	25
9	Norway (NOR)	5	3	4	12
10	United States (USA)	5	2	4	11
11	New Zealand (NZL)	5	2	1	8
12	Canada (CAN)	4	5	5	14
13	Italy (ITA)	4	4	2	10
14	Bulgaria (BUL)	4	3	7	14
15	Finland (FIN)	4	2	3	9
16	Austria (AUT)	3	4	4	11
17	Slovakia (SVK)	3	3	2	8
18	Yugoslavia (YUG)	3	2	1	6
19	Denmark (DEN)	2	4	4	10
20	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	2	2	6
21	Australia (AUS)	1	5	6	12
22	Spain (ESP)	1	3	2	7
23	Unified Team (EUN)	1	1	0	2
24	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
25	Poland (POL)	0	5	6	11
26	Russia (RUS)	0	2	3	5
27	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	1	3
28	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	0	2
	Latvia (LAT)	0	2	0	2
30	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	3	4
31	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
33	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Women's events

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	9	9	2	20
2	Soviet Union (URS)	8	2	3	13
3	East Germany (GDR)	6	2	1	9
4	Hungary (HUN)	4	7	5	16
5	Sweden (SWE)	3	2	2	7
6	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	0	2
7	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	1	4
8	Romania (ROM)	1	1	4	6
9	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
10	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	1	2
11	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	0	1
13	Canada (CAN)	0	3	2	5
	United States (USA)	0	3	2	5
15	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	2	4
16	Australia (AUS)	0	1	2	3
	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
18	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
19	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
20	Poland (POL)	0	0	5	5
21	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

Canoeing at the Summer Olympics
1924 (demonstration) • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men) and List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (women)