Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Pictograms for slalom (left) and sprint (right)
Venue	Lee Valley White Water Centre (slalom) Eton Dorney (sprint)
Dates	29 July – 2 August 2012 (slalom) 6–11 August 2012 (sprint)
Competitors	330
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Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, from 29 July to 2 August, and canoe sprint, from 6 to 11 August. ^[1] The slalom competition was held at the Lee Valley White Water Centre and the sprint events were staged at Eton College Rowing Centre, at Dorney Lake, known as Eton Dorney.

Around 330 athletes took part in 16 events. The men's 500m sprints were replaced by a 200m race; in addition, the men's C-2 500m was replaced by a women's K-1 200m sprint. ^[2] This was confirmed at an International Canoe Federation board meeting at Windsor, Berkshire, on 5 December 2009. ^[3] For the first time, women competed in two individual events in sprint canoeing. Because of the changes, the finals were spread over a three-day period instead of the traditional two days which had been in effect since the 1976 Games. ^[4] The most successful nation in the slalom was France, with two gold medals in the four events, followed by Great Britain with one gold and one silver. In the sprint, Hungary was the most successful with three gold, two silver and one bronze medal, while Germany topped the medal table overall, with three gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

Qualification

Main article: Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A new qualification system was created for both slalom and sprint canoeing at the 2012 Games. The quotas were set for each event by the International Canoe Federation in July 2010.

Competition schedule

Eton Dorney, in Buckinghamshire, was the venue for the sprint discipline.

H	Heats	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Slalom ^[5]

Event↓/Date →	Sun 29	Mon 30	Tue 31		Wed 1		Thu 2
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 6		Tue 7		Wed 8	Thu 9	Fri 10		Sat 11
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

Jessica Fox competing at the 2012 Olympics in K1

Medal summary

By event

Slalom

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 details	Tony Estanguet   France	Sideris Tasiadis   Germany	Michal Martikán   Slovakia
Men's C-2 details	Timothy Baillie Etienne Stott   Great Britain	David Florence Richard Hounslow   Great Britain	Pavol Hochschorner Peter Hochschorner   Slovakia
Men's K-1 details	Daniele Molmenti   Italy	Vavřinec Hradilek   Czech Republic	Hannes Aigner   Germany
Women's K-1 details	Émilie Fer   France	Jessica Fox   Australia	Maialen Chourraut   Spain

Sprint

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 200 m details	Yuriy Cheban   Ukraine	Ivan Shtyl   Russia [a]	Alfonso Benavides   Spain
C-1 1000 m details	Sebastian Brendel   Germany	David Cal   Spain	Mark Oldershaw   Canada
C-2 1000 m details	Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela  (GER)	Aliaksandr Bahdanovich and Andrei Bahdanovich  (BLR)	Alexey Korovashkov and Ilya Pervukhin  (RUS)
K-1 200 m details	Ed McKeever   Great Britain	Saúl Craviotto   Spain	Mark de Jonge   Canada
K-1 1000 m details	Eirik Verås Larsen   Norway	Adam van Koeverden   Canada	Max Hoff   Germany
K-2 200 m details	Alexander Dyachenko and Yury Postrigay  (RUS)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu  (BLR)	Liam Heath and Jon Schofield  (GBR)
K-2 1000 m details	Rudolf Dombi and Roland Kökény  (HUN)	Fernando Pimenta and Emanuel Silva  (POR)	Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein  (GER)
K-4 1000 m details	Australia  (AUS) Tate Smith Dave Smith Murray Stewart Jacob Clear	Hungary  (HUN) Zoltán Kammerer Dávid Tóth Tamás Kulifai Dániel Pauman	Czech Republic  (CZE) Daniel Havel Lukáš Trefil Josef Dostál Jan Štěrba

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 200 m details	Lisa Carrington   New Zealand	Inna Osypenko   Ukraine	Nataša Dušev-Janić   Hungary
K-1 500 m details	Danuta Kozák   Hungary	Inna Osypenko   Ukraine	Bridgitte Hartley   South Africa
K-2 500 m details	Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze  (GER)	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Dusev-Janics  (HUN)	Beata Mikołajczyk and Karolina Naja  (POL)
K-4 500 m details	Hungary  (HUN) Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Katalin Kovács Krisztina Fazekas Zur	Germany  (GER) Carolin Leonhardt Franziska Weber Katrin Wagner-Augustin Tina Dietze	Belarus  (BLR) Iryna Pamialova Nadzeya Papok Volha Khudzenka Maryna Pautaran

• ^{Sprint Men's C-1 200 m} On 12 June 2019, the IOC stripped Lithuanian canoeist Jevgenij Shuklin of his silver medal. ^[7]

Gallery

Gallery of some of the gold medalists in the canoeing events:

• 
  Tony Estanguet, pictured in 2006, won the men's C-1 slalom for France
• 
  Émilie Fer, also from France, pictured winning the women's K-1 slalom
• 
  Sebastian Brendel, of Germany, won gold in the men's C-1 1,000m sprint
• 
  David Smith was part of the Australian team that won the men's K-4 1,000m sprint

By nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	3	2	3	8
2	Hungary	3	2	1	6
3	Great Britain	2	1	1	4
4	France	2	0	0	2
5	Ukraine	1	2	0	3
6	Russia	1	1	1	3
7	Australia	1	1	0	2
8	Italy	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
11	Spain	0	2	2	4
12	Belarus	0	2	1	3
13	Canada	0	1	2	3
14	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
15	Portugal	0	1	0	1
16	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
17	Poland	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
19	Lithuania	0	0	0	0
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	16	48

References

1. "Canoeing". 2009. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009.
2. "Women's boxing for 2012 and golf and rugby proposed for 2016". 2009.^{[ dead link ]}
3. "The Board of Directors Wrap Up in Windsor". ^{[ permanent dead link ]} – International Canoe Federation (5 December 2009) – Retrieved 18 December 2009.^{[ dead link ]}
4. "ICF announces changes to the Olympic and World Championship Programmes." Archived 3 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine – International Canoe Federation (18 December 2009) – Retrieved 19 December 2009.
5. "Olympic sport competition schedule". London 2012. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
6. "Olympic sport competition schedule". London 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.^{[ dead link ]}
7. https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-one-athlete-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-london-2012-2 IOC sanctions one athlete for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012

External links

Media related to Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

• Canoe Slalom at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com. at the UK Government Web Archive (archived 28 February 2013)
• Canoe Sprint at the 2012 Summer Olympics. London2012.com. at the UK Government Web Archive (archived 28 February 2013)
• Official results book – Canoe Slalom. London2012.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 May 2013)
• Official results book – Canoe Sprint. London2012.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 April 2013)
• Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)

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