Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Slalom and sprint pictograms
Venue	Lee Valley White Water Centre (slalom) Eton Dorney (sprint)
Dates	29 July to 2 August for slalom 6 to 11 August for sprint
Competitors	330

Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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 canoeing races at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were contested in two main disciplines: the slalom, from 29 July to 2 August, and the sprint, from 6 to 11 August. 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. This was confirmed at an International Canoe Federation board meeting at Windsor, Berkshire, on 5 December 2009. 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. 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

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

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

Medalists

Overall table

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	Australia	1	1	0	2
7	Russia	1	0	2	3
8	Italy	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
11	Belarus	0	2	1	3
	Spain	0	2	1	3
13	Canada	0	1	2	3
14	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
15	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Portugal	0	1	0	1
17	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
18	Poland	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	16	48

Slalom

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Tony Estanguet (FRA)	Sideris Tasiadis (GER)	Michal Martikán (SVK)
Men's C-2	Timothy Baillie and Etienne Stott (GBR)	David Florence and Richard Hounslow (GBR)	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner (SVK)
Men's K-1	Daniele Molmenti (ITA)	Vavřinec Hradilek (CZE)	Hannes Aigner (GER)
Women's K-1	Émilie Fer (FRA)	Jessica Fox (AUS)	Maialen Chourraut (ESP)

Sprint

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 200 m	Yuriy Cheban (UKR)	Jevgenij Shuklin (LTU)	Ivan Shtyl (RUS)
Men's C-1 1000 m	Sebastian Brendel (GER)	David Cal (ESP)	Mark Oldershaw (CAN)
Men's C-2 1000 m	Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela (GER)	Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (BLR)	Alexey Korovashkov and Ilya Pervukhin (RUS)
Men's K-1 200 m	Ed McKeever (GBR)	Saúl Craviotto (ESP)	Mark de Jonge (CAN)
Men's K-1 1000 m	Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	Max Hoff (GER)
Men's K-2 200 m	Alexander Dyachenko and Yury Postrigay (RUS)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)	Liam Heath and Jon Schofield (GBR)
Men's K-2 1000 m	Rudolf Dombi and Roland Kökény (HUN)	Fernando Pimenta and Emanuel Silva (POR)	Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein (GER)
Men's K-4 1000 m	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 Štĕrba

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women's K-1 200 m	Lisa Carrington (NZL)	Inna Osypenko-Radomska (UKR)	Natasa Dusev-Janics (HUN)
Women's K-1 500 m	Danuta Kozák (HUN)	Inna Osypenko-Radomska (UKR)	Bridgitte Hartley (RSA)
Women's K-2 500 m	Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze (GER)	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Dusev-Janics (HUN)	Beata Mikołajczyk and Karolina Naja (POL)
Women's K-4 500 m	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

Gallery

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

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  Tony Estanguet, pictured in 2006, won the men's C-1 slalom for France

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  Émilie Fer, also from France, pictured winning the women's K-1 slalom

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  Sebastian Brendel, of Germany, won gold in the men's C-1 1,000m sprint

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  David Smith was part of the Australian team that won the men's K-4 1,000m sprint