Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

The canoeing competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was composed of 16 events (12 for men and 4 for women) in two disciplines, slalom and sprint. Timing in 1/1000ths of a second began at these games for the sprint events.

Medal summary

Slalom

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Michal Martikán (SVK)	Lukáš Pollert (CZE)	Patrice Estanguet (FRA)
Men's C-2	Frank Adisson and Wilfrid Forgues (FRA)	Jiří Rohan and Miroslav Šimek (CZE)	Andre Ehrenberg and Michael Senft (GER)
Men's K-1	Oliver Fix (GER)	Andraž Vehovar (SLO)	Thomas Becker (GER)
Women's K-1	Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE)	Dana Chladek (USA)	Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi (FRA)

Sprint

2010 picture of the finish tower at Lake Lanier where the canoe sprint and rowing competitions for the 1996 Summer Olympics took place.

Sprint events were held at Lake Lanier, Georgia.

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Martin Doktor (CZE)	Slavomír Kňazovický (SVK)	Imre Pulai (HUN)
C-1 1000 metres	Martin Doktor (CZE)	Ivans Klementjevs (LAT)	György Zala (HUN)
C-2 500 metres	György Kolonics and Csaba Horváth (HUN)	Viktor Reneysky and Nicolae Juravschi (MDA)	Gheorghe Andriev and Grigore Obreja (ROU)
C-2 1000 metres	Andreas Dittmer and Gunar Kirchbach (GER)	Marcel Glavan and Antonel Borsan (ROU)	Csaba Horváth and György Kolonics (HUN)
K-1 500 metres	Antonio Rossi (ITA)	Knut Holmann (NOR)	Piotr Markiewicz (POL)
K-1 1000 metres	Knut Holmann (NOR)	Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)	Clint Robinson (AUS)
K-2 500 metres	Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche (GER)	Beniamino Bonomi and Daniele Scarpa (ITA)	Daniel Collins and Andrew Trim (AUS)
K-2 1000 metres	Antonio Rossi and Daniele Scarpa (ITA)	Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche (GER)	Andrian Dushev and Milko Kazanov (BUL)
K-4 1000 metres	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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Rita Kőbán (HUN)	Caroline Brunet (CAN)	Josefa Idem (ITA)
K-2 500 metres	Agneta Andersson and Susanne Gunnarsson (SWE)	Birgit Fischer and Ramona Portwich (GER)	Anna Wood and Katrin Borchert (AUS)
K-4 500 metres	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

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

References

• 1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. pp. 162–74. (English) & (French)