Canoeing and kayaking at the Summer Olympics

Canoeing and kayaking at the Summer Olympics
Governing body	ICF
Events	16 (men: 12; women: 4)
Games
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920 1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 2004 • 2008 Note: demonstration sport years indicated in italics
Medalists (men • women)

Canoeing and kayaking has been featured as a competition sport in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1936 Games in Berlin although it was a demonstration sport at the 1924 Games in Paris.^[1] There are two disciplines of canoeing in Olympic competition: slalom and sprint.

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. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be replaced at the 2012 Summer Olympics by 200 m events with one of them being K-1 200 m for the women. The other events for men at 200 m will be C-1, C-2, and K-1.^[2] This was confirmed at their 2009 Board of Directors meeting in Windsor, Berkshire, Great Britain on 5 December 2009.^[3]

Events

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

Slalom

Sprint

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	29	13	9	51
2	Germany (GER)	25	14	16	55
3	Hungary (HUN)	19	27	25	71
4	Sweden (SWE)	15	11	4	30
5	East Germany (GDR)	14	7	9	30
6	Romania (ROU)	10	10	14	34
7	Slovakia (SVK)	7	4	2	13
8	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7	4	1	12
9	France (FRA)	5	8	18	31
10	Italy (ITA)	5	6	4	15
11	United States (USA)	5	5	6	16
12	Norway (NOR)	5	4	4	13
13	Finland (FIN)	5	2	3	10
14	New Zealand (NZL)	5	2	1	8
15	Canada (CAN)	4	9	8	21
16	Bulgaria (BUL)	4	5	8	17
17	Germany (EUA)	4	5	2	11
18	Czech Republic (CZE)	4	3	2	9
19	Austria (AUT)	3	5	6	14
20	Denmark (DEN)	3	5	5	13
21	Australia (AUS)	2	7	11	20
22	West Germany (FRG)	2	6	3	11
23	Spain (ESP)	2	5	2	9
24	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	2	1	5
25	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	2	4
26	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
27	Great Britain (GBR)	1	4	4	9
28	Russia (RUS)	1	3	4	8
29	Unified Team (EUN)	1	1	0	2
30	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	2	3
31	Poland (POL)	0	6	11	17
32	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	5	8
33	Cuba (CUB)	0	3	0	3
34	Latvia (LAT)	0	2	0	2
35	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
38	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	0	1	1
Total		194	194	194	582

References

v • d • e Canoeing and kayaking 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 • 2012 List of medalists (men, women)