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

Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of canoeists
Qualification
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 Janeiro were 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

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

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

Participating nations

• 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

Medal summary

Medal table

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	Czech Republic	0	1	2	3
11	Azerbaijan	0	1	1	2
	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 21 NOCs		16	16	17	49

Slalom

Event	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	Joseph 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

Event	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	Serghei Tarnovschi  Moldova
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

Women

Event	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

See also

• Canoeing at the 2014 Asian Games
• Canoe sprint at the 2015 European Games
• Canoeing at the 2015 Pan American Games
• Paracanoeing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

References

1. "Rio 2016: Canoe Slalom". Rio 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
2. "Rio 2016: Canoe Sprint". Rio 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
3. "Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches". Reuters. 11 June 2016. The second new study, by the Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab, which will be published next month by the American Society for Microbiology, found the genes of super bacteria in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in the heart of Rio and in a river that empties into Guanabara Bay. Waste from countless hospitals, in addition to hundreds of thousands of households, pours into storm drains, rivers and streams crisscrossing Rio, allowing the super bacteria to spread outside the city's hospitals in recent years.
4. "Scientists reportedly find super bacteria in several Rio Olympic venues". Fox News. 11 June 2016. A 2014 study had already shown the presence of super bacteria off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events are going to be held. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already declared super bacteria an urgent public health crisis.
5. "Rio 2016 – ICF Canoe & Kayak Qualification System" (PDF). ICF. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
6. "Rio 2016: Ticket Guide – Search for Sessions". Rio 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

External links

• International Canoe Federation