Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, twelve events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1984.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany  (GDR)	3	4	2	9
2	Soviet Union  (URS)	3	3	0	6
3	Hungary  (HUN)	2	1	1	4
4	United States  (USA)	2	0	0	2
5	Bulgaria  (BUL)	1	1	3	5
6	New Zealand  (NZL)	1	1	1	3
7	Poland  (POL)	0	1	2	3
8	Australia  (AUS)	0	1	1	2
9	France  (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres details	Olaf Heukrodt   East Germany	Michał Śliwiński   Soviet Union	Martin Marinov   Bulgaria
C-1 1000 metres details	Ivans Klementyev   Soviet Union	Jörg Schmidt   East Germany	Nikolay Bukhalov   Bulgaria
C-2 500 metres details	Viktor Reneysky and Nicolae Juravschi  (URS)	Marek Dopierała and Marek Łbik  (POL)	Philippe Renaud and Joël Bettin  (FRA)
C-2 1000 metres details	Viktor Reneysky and Nicolae Juravschi  (URS)	Olaf Heukrodt and Ingo Spelly  (GDR)	Marek Dopierała and Marek Łbik  (POL)
K-1 500 metres details	Zsolt Gyulay   Hungary	Andreas Stähle   East Germany	Paul MacDonald   New Zealand
K-1 1000 metres details	Greg Barton   United States	Grant Davies   Australia	André Wohllebe   East Germany
K-2 500 metres details	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald   New Zealand	Igor Nagayev and Viktor Denisov   Soviet Union	Attila Ábrahám and Ferenc Csipes   Hungary
K-2 1000 metres details	Greg Barton and Norman Bellingham   United States	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald   New Zealand	Peter Foster and Kelvin Graham   Australia
K-4 1000 metres details	Hungary  (HUN) Zsolt Gyulay Ferenc Csipes Sándor Hódosi Attila Ábrahám	Soviet Union  (URS) Aleksandr Motuzenko Sergey Kirsanov Igor Nagaev Viktor Denisov	East Germany  (GDR) Kay Bluhm André Wohllebe Andreas Stähle Hans-Jörg Bliesener

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Vanja Gesheva   Bulgaria	Birgit Schmidt   East Germany	Izabela Dylewska   Poland
K-2 500 metres details	Birgit Schmidt and Anke Nothnagel   East Germany	Vanja Gesheva and Diana Paliiska   Bulgaria	Annemiek Derckx and Annemarie Cox   Netherlands
K-4 500 metres details	East Germany  (GDR) Birgit Schmidt Anke Nothnagel Ramona Portwich Heike Singer	Hungary  (HUN) Erika Géczi Erika Mészáros Éva Rakusz Rita Kőbán	Bulgaria  (BUL) Vanja Gesheva Diana Paliiska Ogniana Petkova Borislava Ivanova

References

• 1988 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2, Part 2. Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine pp. 336–50. (in English and French)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2006-12-20.