Karen Furneaux is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds, three silvers, and four bronzes.
Katalin Kovács is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed in the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics and won eight medals, with three golds and five silvers.
Natasa Dusev-Janics is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed for Hungary since 2001 and has won six Olympic medals in the sprint canoe events.
Raman Ivanavich Piatrushenka or Roman Petrushenko is a Belarusian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2000. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold, one silver and two bronzes.
Erika Mészáros is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won two medals in the K-4 500 m event with a gold in 1992 and a silver in 1988.
Michael "Misha" Kolganov is a USSR-born Israeli sprint kayaker and former world champion (1998-99). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the K-1 500 m event at Sydney in 2000. He was the flag bearer for Israel during the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Canoeing has been featured as competition sports in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1936 Games in Berlin, although they were demonstration sports at the 1924 Games in Paris. There are two disciplines of canoeing in Olympic competition: slalom and sprint.
Inna Volodymyrivna Osypenko-Radomska is a sprint kayaker. Competing for Ukraine, she won four Olympic medals, including gold at the 2008 Olympics in K-1 500 m. She switched to Azerbaijan in 2014 and won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics.
Saúl Craviotto Rivero is a Spanish sprint kayaker who has been racing since the mid-2000s. He has won five Olympic medals: a gold medal in the K-2 500 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, a silver medal in the K-1 200 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, a gold medal in the K-2 200 m and a bronze medal in the K-1 200 m at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and a silver medal in the K-4 500 m at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He served as the flag bearer for Spain at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics and at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympics.
Gabriella Szabó is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s.
Danuta Kozák is a Hungarian sprint canoeist. Her mother is of Polish descent. She has won one silver, one bronze and six Olympic gold medals, three of which in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, making her the only female to win K1, K2 and K4 at the same Olympics. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal in Women's K-4 500 metres, and bronze medal in Women's K-2 500 metres.
Jonas Ems is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-2000s. He has won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold, two silvers and a bronze.
Krisztina Fazekas-Zur is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-2000s. She won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds and five silvers.
Franziska Weber is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s.
Émilie Fournel is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth, and in the K-1 5000 m at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.
Sébastien Jouve is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds, two silvers, and three bronzes.
Carrie Ann Johnson is an American sprint canoer who has competed in the individual and team Canoeing events at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
Liam Heath is a British sprint canoeist. He is the most successful British canoeist at the Olympics with a total of four medals; he won a gold medal in the individual 200m kayak sprint event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the 2020 Olympics, as well as a silver in the men's double with Jon Schofield in 2016. and a bronze at the 2012 London Olympics in the K-2 200 with Schofield.
Marharyta Ryhorauna Makhneva, née Tsishkevich, Belarusian: Маргарыта Рыгораўна Махнева (Цішкевіч); Łacinka: Marharyta Ryhoraŭna Machnieva (Ciškievič); born 13 February 1992) is a Belarusian sprint canoeist. She won two gold medals at the 2015 World Championships and the bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's K-4 500 metres.
Nataliya Yuryevna Podolskaya is a Russian sprint canoeist.
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