Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre for the sprint events and the Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre at the Helliniko Olympic Complex for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines.

A total of 16 events were contested, 12 sprint events (9 for men and 3 for women) and 4 slalom events (3 for men and 1 for women).

Medal summary

Slalom

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Tony Estanguet (FRA)	Michal Martikán (SVK)	Stefan Pfannmöller (GER)
Men's C-2	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner (SVK)	Marcus Becker and Stefan Henze (GER)	Jaroslav Volf and Ondřej Štěpánek (CZE)
Men's K-1	Benoît Peschier (FRA)	Campbell Walsh (GBR)	Fabien Lefèvre (FRA)
Women's K-1	Elena Kaliská (SVK)	Rebecca Giddens (USA)	Helen Reeves (GBR)

Sprint

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	David Cal (ESP)	Maxim Opalev (RUS)
C-1 1000 metres	David Cal (ESP)	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	Attila Vajda (HUN)
C-2 500 metres	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun (CHN)	Ibrahim Rojas and Ledis Balceiro (CUB)	Alexander Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov (RUS)
C-2 1000 metres	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)	Aleksandr Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov (RUS)	György Kozmann and György Kolonics (HUN)
K-1 500 metres	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	Ian Wynne (GBR)
K-1 1000 metres	Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	Ben Fouhy (NZL)	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)
K-2 500 metres	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)	Clint Robinson and Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)
K-2 1000 metres	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson (SWE)	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)	Eirik Verås Larsen and Nils Olav Fjeldheim (NOR)
K-4 1000 metres	Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Kammerer Botond Storcz Ákos Vereckei Gábor Horváth	Germany (GER) Andreas Ihle Mark Zabel Björn Bach Stefan Ulm	Slovakia (SVK) Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Bača

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Natasa Janics (HUN)	Josefa Idem Guerrini (ITA)	Caroline Brunet (CAN)
K-2 500 metres	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics (HUN)	Birgit Fischer and Carolin Leonhardt (GER)	Aneta Pastuszka and Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza (POL)
K-4 500 metres	Germany (GER) Birgit Fischer Maike Nollen Katrin Wagner Carolin Leonhardt	Hungary (HUN) Katalin Kovács Szilvia Szabó Erzsébet Viski Kinga Bóta	Ukraine (UKR) Inna Osypenko Tetyana Semykina Hanna Balabanova Olena Cherevatova

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	4	4	1	9
2	Hungary (HUN)	3	1	2	6
3	Slovakia (SVK)	2	1	1	4
4	France (FRA)	2	0	1	3
5	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	2	3
7	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
8	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
10	Australia (AUS)	0	2	0	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	2	0	2
12	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
14	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
17	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2. pp. 284–92.

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