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

Qualification

Main article: Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medal summary

Slalom

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Michal Martikán (SVK)	David Florence (GBR)	Robin Bell (AUS)
Men's C-2	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner (SVK)	Ondřej Štěpánek and Jaroslav Volf (CZE)	Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov (RUS)
Men's K-1	Alexander Grimm (GER)	Fabien Lefèvre (FRA)	Benjamin Boukpeti (TOG)
Women's K-1	Elena Kaliská (SVK)	Jacqueline Lawrence (AUS)	Violetta Oblinger-Peters (AUT)

Sprint

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Maxim Opalev (RUS)	David Cal (ESP)	Iurii Cheban (UKR)
C-1 1000 metres	Attila Vajda (HUN)	David Cal (ESP)	Thomas Hall (CAN)
C-2 500 metres	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun (CHN)	Sergey Ulegin and Alexander Kostoglod (RUS)	Christian Gille and Thomasz Wylenzek (GER)
C-2 1000 metres	Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (BLR)	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)	György Kozmann and Tamás Kiss (HUN)
K-1 500 metres	Ken Wallace (AUS)	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	Tim Brabants (GBR)
K-1 1000 metres	Tim Brabants (GBR)	Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	Ken Wallace (AUS)
K-2 500 metres	Saúl Craviotto and Carlos Pérez (ESP)	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)
K-2 1000 metres	Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein (GER)	Kim Wraae Knudsen and René Holten Poulsen (DEN)	Andrea Facchin and Antonio Scaduto (ITA)
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 (UKR)	Josefa Idem (ITA)	Katrin Wagner-Augustin (GER)
K-2 500 metres	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics (HUN)	Beata Mikołajczyk and Aneta Konieczna (POL)	Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard (FRA)
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

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