Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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No. of events	16
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2010 picture of the finish tower at Lake Lanier where the canoe sprint and rowing competitions for the 1996 Summer Olympics took place.

The canoeing competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States was composed of 16 events in two disciplines, slalom and sprint. Timing in 1/1000ths of a second began at these games for the sprint events.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany  (GER)	5	2	2	9
2	Czech Republic  (CZE)	3	2	0	5
3	Italy  (ITA)	2	2	1	5
4	Hungary  (HUN)	2	1	3	6
5	Norway  (NOR)	1	1	0	2
	Slovakia  (SVK)	1	1	0	2
7	France  (FRA)	1	0	2	3
8	Sweden  (SWE)	1	0	1	2
9	Romania  (ROU)	0	1	1	2
10	Canada  (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia  (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova  (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia  (SLO)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	United States  (USA)	0	1	0	1
16	Australia  (AUS)	0	0	3	3
17	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Russia  (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	16	48

Medal summary

Slalom

Slalom events took place at Ocoee Whitewater Center near Ducktown, Tennessee.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 details	Michal Martikán   Slovakia	Lukáš Pollert   Czech Republic	Patrice Estanguet   France
Men's C-2 details	Frank Adisson and Wilfrid Forgues  (FRA)	Jiří Rohan and Miroslav Šimek  (CZE)	André Ehrenberg and Michael Senft  (GER)
Men's K-1 details	Oliver Fix   Germany	Andraž Vehovar   Slovenia	Thomas Becker   Germany
Women's K-1 details	Štěpánka Hilgertová   Czech Republic	Dana Chladek   United States	Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi   France

Sprint

Sprint events were held at Lake Lanier, Georgia.

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres details	Martin Doktor   Czech Republic	Slavomír Kňazovický   Slovakia	Imre Pulai   Hungary
C-1 1000 metres details	Martin Doktor   Czech Republic	Ivans Klementjevs   Latvia	György Zala   Hungary
C-2 500 metres details	Hungary  (HUN) György Kolonics Csaba Horváth	Moldova  (MDA) Viktor Reneysky Nicolae Juravschi	Romania  (ROU) Gheorghe Andriev Grigore Obreja
C-2 1000 metres details	Germany  (GER) Andreas Dittmer Gunar Kirchbach	Romania  (ROU) Marcel Glăvan Antonel Borșan	Hungary  (HUN) Csaba Horváth György Kolonics
K-1 500 metres details	Antonio Rossi   Italy	Knut Holmann   Norway	Piotr Markiewicz   Poland
K-1 1000 metres details	Knut Holmann   Norway	Beniamino Bonomi   Italy	Clint Robinson   Australia
K-2 500 metres details	Germany  (GER) Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	Italy  (ITA) Beniamino Bonomi Daniele Scarpa	Australia  (AUS) Daniel Collins Andrew Trim
K-2 1000 metres details	Italy  (ITA) Antonio Rossi Daniele Scarpa	Germany  (GER) Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	Bulgaria  (BUL) Andrian Dushev Milko Kazanov
K-4 1000 metres details	Germany  (GER) Thomas Reineck Olaf Winter Detlef Hofmann Mark Zabel	Hungary  (HUN) András Rajna Gábor Horváth Ferenc Csipes Attila Adrovicz	Russia  (RUS) Oleg Gorobiy Sergey Verlin Georgiy Tsybulnikov Anatoli Tishchenko

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Rita Kőbán   Hungary	Caroline Brunet   Canada	Josefa Idem   Italy
K-2 500 metres details	Sweden  (SWE) Agneta Andersson Susanne Gunnarsson	Germany  (GER) Birgit Fischer Ramona Portwich	Australia  (AUS) Anna Wood Katrin Borchert
K-4 500 metres details	Germany  (GER) Anett Schuck Birgit Fischer Manuela Mucke Ramona Portwich	Switzerland  (SUI) Gabi Müller Ingrid Haralamow Sabine Eichenberger Daniela Baumer	Sweden  (SWE) Susanne Rosenqvist Anna Olsson Ingela Ericsson Agneta Andersson

References

• 1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. pp. 162–74. (in English and French)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 2006-12-20.