Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Pictograms for the Slalom (left) and Sprint (right)
Venue	Olympic Whitewater Stadium (slalom) Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (sprint)
Dates	7–11 August 2016 for Slalom 15–20 August 2016 for Sprint
No. of events	16
Competitors	334 from 53 nations
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Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, from 7 to 11 August, ^[1] and canoe sprint, from 15 to 20 August. ^[2] The slalom competition was held at the Olympic Whitewater Stadium; whereas the sprint events were staged at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Copacabana. The location for canoeing events was a source of concern for athletes since the Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab has found the genes of drug-resistant super bacteria in Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon. ^{[3] [4]}

Around 330 athletes participated in 16 events.

Qualification

Main article: Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A new qualification system had been created for both slalom and sprint canoeing at the 2016 Olympic Games. The quotas were set for each event by the International Canoe Federation in August 2014. ^[5]

Competition schedule

H

Heats

½

Semifinals

F

Final

Slalom ^[6]

Event↓/Date →	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9		Wed 10		Thu 11
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 15		Tue 16	Wed 17		Thu 18	Fri 19		Sat 20
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

Participating

Participating nations

•   Argentina  (10)
•   Australia  (18)
•   Austria  (2)
•   Azerbaijan  (4)
•   Belarus  (12)
•   Belgium  (1)
•   Brazil  (13)
•   Bulgaria  (2)
•   Canada  (9)
•   China  (10)
•   Cook Islands  (2)
•   Cuba  (6)
•   Czech Republic  (12)
•   Denmark  (5)
•   Ecuador  (1)
•   Egypt  (2)
•   France  (17)
•   Georgia  (1)
•   Germany  (16)
•   Great Britain  (11)
•   Hungary  (18)
•   Italy  (4)
•   Japan  (5)
•   Kazakhstan  (13)
•   Latvia  (2)
•   Lebanon  (1)
•   Lithuania  (6)
•   Moldova  (1)
•   Morocco  (1)
•   Mexico  (1)
•   Mozambique  (2)
•   New Zealand  (9)
•   Nigeria  (1)
•   Palau  (1)
•   Poland  (15)
•   Portugal  (7)
•   Romania  (8)
•   Russia  (19)
•   Samoa  (1)
•   São Tomé and Príncipe  (1)
•   Senegal  (3)
•   Serbia  (10)
•   Slovakia  (12)
•   Slovenia  (6)
•   South Africa  (1)
•   South Korea  (2)
•   Spain  (11)
•   Sweden  (5)
•   Tunisia  (3)
•   Turkey  (1)
•   Ukraine  (9)
•   United States  (5)
•   Uzbekistan  (4)

Competitors

Main article: List of canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Medal summary

By event

Slalom

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 [7] details	Denis Gargaud Chanut   France	Matej Beňuš   Slovakia	Takuya Haneda   Japan
Men's C-2 [7] details	Ladislav Škantár Peter Škantár   Slovakia	David Florence Richard Hounslow   Great Britain	Gauthier Klauss Matthieu Péché   France
Men's K-1 [7] details	Joe Clarke   Great Britain	Peter Kauzer   Slovenia	Jiří Prskavec   Czech Republic
Women's K-1 [7] details	Maialen Chourraut   Spain	Luuka Jones   New Zealand	Jessica Fox   Australia

Sprint

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 200 metres details	Yuriy Cheban   Ukraine	Valentin Demyanenko   Azerbaijan	Isaquias Queiroz   Brazil
C-1 1000 metres details [a]	Sebastian Brendel   Germany	Isaquias Queiroz   Brazil	Ilia Shtokalov   Russia
C-2 1000 metres details	Sebastian Brendel Jan Vandrey   Germany	Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz   Brazil	Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk   Ukraine
K-1 200 metres details	Liam Heath   Great Britain	Maxime Beaumont   France	Saúl Craviotto   Spain Ronald Rauhe   Germany
K-1 1000 metres details	Marcus Walz   Spain	Josef Dostál   Czech Republic	Roman Anoshkin   Russia
K-2 200 metres details	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro   Spain	Liam Heath Jon Schofield   Great Britain	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas   Lithuania
K-2 1000 metres details	Max Rendschmidt Marcus Gross   Germany	Marko Tomićević Milenko Zorić   Serbia	Ken Wallace Lachlan Tame   Australia
K-4 1000 metres details	Germany  (GER) Max Rendschmidt Tom Liebscher Max Hoff Marcus Gross	Slovakia  (SVK) Denis Myšák Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr Tibor Linka	Czech Republic  (CZE) Daniel Havel Lukáš Trefil Josef Dostál Jan Štěrba

• ^{Men's C-1 1000 metres} Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova finished third, but was stripped of his bronze medal due to a failed doping test. ^{[8] [9]}

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 200 metres details	Lisa Carrington   New Zealand	Marta Walczykiewicz   Poland	Inna Osypenko-Radomska   Azerbaijan
K-1 500 metres details	Danuta Kozák   Hungary	Emma Jørgensen   Denmark	Lisa Carrington   New Zealand
K-2 500 metres details	Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák   Hungary	Franziska Weber Tina Dietze   Germany	Beata Mikołajczyk Karolina Naja   Poland
K-4 500 metres details	Hungary  (HUN) Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Tamara Csipes Krisztina Fazekas	Germany  (GER) Sabrina Hering Franziska Weber Steffi Kriegerstein Tina Dietze	Belarus  (BLR) Marharyta Makhneva Nadzeya Liapeshka Volha Khudzenka Maryna Litvinchuk

By nation

Key

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	2	1	7
2	Spain	3	0	1	4
3	Hungary	3	0	0	3
4	Great Britain	2	2	0	4
5	Slovakia	1	2	0	3
6	France	1	1	1	3
	New Zealand	1	1	1	3
8	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
9	Brazil*	0	2	1	3
10	Czech Republic	0	1	2	3
11	Azerbaijan	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
13	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
16	Australia	0	0	2	2
	Russia	0	0	2	2
18	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		16	16	17	49

See also

• Paracanoeing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

References

1. "Rio 2016: Canoe Slalom". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
2. "Rio 2016: Canoe Sprint". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
3. "Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches". Reuters. 11 June 2016. The second new study, by the Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab, which will be published next month by the American Society for Microbiology, found the genes of super bacteria in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in the heart of Rio and in a river that empties into Guanabara Bay. Waste from countless hospitals, in addition to hundreds of thousands of households, pours into storm drains, rivers and streams crisscrossing Rio, allowing the super bacteria to spread outside the city's hospitals in recent years.
4. "Scientists reportedly find super bacteria in several Rio Olympic venues". Fox News. 11 June 2016. A 2014 study had already shown the presence of super bacteria off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events are going to be held. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already declared super bacteria an urgent public health crisis.
5. "Rio 2016 – ICF Canoe & Kayak Qualification System" (PDF). ICF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
6. "Rio 2016: Ticket Guide – Search for Sessions". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
7. "2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro Canoe Slalom Results" (PDF). 7–11 August 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
8. "Media release. Doping - Canoeing. Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) confirms the decision rendered by the international Canoe Federation (ICF) in the case of Serghei Tarnovschi" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
9. "Rio 2016 C-1 1000m (canoe single) men".

External links

• "Canoe Slalom at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
• "Canoe Sprint at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
• Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• Results Book – Canoe Slalom
• Results Book – Canoe Sprint
• International Canoe Federation