| Men's canoe sprint K-2 1000 metres at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Lagoa Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 17–18 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 24 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
| Teams | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 3:10.781 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of canoeists Qualification | ||
Slalom | ||
| C-1 | men | |
| C-2 | men | |
| K-1 | men | women |
Sprint | ||
| C-1 200 m | men | |
| C-1 1000 m | men | |
| C-2 1000 m | men | |
| K-1 200 m | men | women |
| K-1 500 m | women | |
| K-1 1000 m | men | |
| K-2 200 m | men | |
| K-2 500 m | women | |
| K-2 1000 m | men | |
| K-4 500 m | women | |
| K-4 1000 m | men | |
The men's canoe sprint K-2 1,000 metres at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place between 17 and 18 August at Lagoa Stadium. [1]
Canoe sprint is a sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water.
The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. These were the first Olympic Games ever to be held in South America and the fourth to be held in a developing country, after the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.
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The medals were presented by Ivo Ferriani, IOC member, Italy and Helen Brownlee, Board Member of the ICF.
Ivo Ferriani is an Italian bobsledder and sports official. In September 2010, he was elected President of the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT), ending the 16-year presidency of Canada's Robert H. Storey.
The International Olympic Committee is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Helen Margaret Brownlee is an Australian executive with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC). In 2013, she was the first woman to be elected as one of the vice presidents of the AOC executive board.
