Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Dates	11–23 August
Competitors	128

Canoeing at the 2008 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 competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 11 to August 23 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing.

Peter Hochschorner and Pavol Hochschorner from Slovakia became the first slalom canoeists to win three Olympic gold medals.

Slalom events course is generally considered to be very tough, even by Olympic standards ^[1]

Qualification

Medal summary

Slalom

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Michal Martikán  Slovakia	David Florence  Great Britain	Robin Bell  Australia
Men's C-2	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner  Slovakia	Ondřej Štěpánek and Jaroslav Volf  Czech Republic	Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov  Russia
Men's K-1	Alexander Grimm  Germany	Fabien Lefèvre  France	Benjamin Boukpeti  Togo
Women's K-1	Elena Kaliská  Slovakia	Jacqueline Lawrence  Australia	Violetta Oblinger-Peters  Austria

Sprint

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Maxim Opalev  Russia	David Cal  Spain	Iurii Cheban  Ukraine
C-1 1000 metres	Attila Vajda  Hungary	David Cal  Spain	Thomas Hall  Canada
C-2 500 metres	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun  China	Sergey Ulegin and Alexander Kostoglod  Russia	Christian Gille and Thomasz Wylenzek  Germany
C-2 1000 metres	Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich  Belarus	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek  Germany	György Kozmann and Tamás Kiss  Hungary
K-1 500 metres	Ken Wallace  Australia	Adam van Koeverden  Canada	Tim Brabants  Great Britain
K-1 1000 metres	Tim Brabants  Great Britain	Eirik Verås Larsen  Norway	Ken Wallace  Australia
K-2 500 metres	Saúl Craviotto and Carlos Pérez  Spain	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter  Germany	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu  Belarus
K-2 1000 metres	Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein  Germany	Kim Wraae Knudsen and René Holten Poulsen  Denmark	Andrea Facchin and Antonio Scaduto  Italy
K-4 1000 metres	Belarus (BLR) Raman Piatrushenka Aliaksei Abalmasau Artur Litvinchuk Vadzim Makhneu	Slovakia (SVK) Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	Germany (GER) Lutz Altepost Norman Bröckl Torsten Eckbrett Bjorn Hogel Goldschmidt

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Inna Osypenko  Ukraine	Josefa Idem  Italy	Katrin Wagner-Augustin  Germany
K-2 500 metres	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics  Hungary	Beata Mikołajczyk and Aneta Konieczna  Poland	Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard  France
K-4 500 metres	Germany (GER) Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt Katrin Wagner-Augustin Conny Waßmuth	Hungary (HUN) Katalin Kovács Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Nataša Janić	Australia (AUS) Lisa Oldenhof Hannah Davis Chantal Meek Lyndsie Fogarty

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	3	2	3	8
2	Slovakia (SVK)	3	1	0	4
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
4	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	1	3
5	Spain (ESP)	1	2	0	3
6	Australia (AUS)	1	1	3	5
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
9	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
10	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
11	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
18	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	16	48

References

1. ABC News: Canoeists and kayakers looking to avoid the hits

• International Canoe Federation
• 2008 Olympic Qualification System
• Flatwater Racing Quotas Situation after Global Qualification Competition
• Slalom Racing Quotas Situation after Global Qualification Competition