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 along the Toccoa/Ocoee River near the Georgia-Tennessee state line.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Michal Martikán Slovakia (SVK)	Lukáš Pollert Czech Republic (CZE)	Patrice Estanguet France (FRA)
Men's C-2	France (FRA) Frank Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	Czech Republic (CZE) Jiří Rohan Miroslav Šimek	Germany (GER) Andre Ehrenberg Michael Senft
Men's K-1	Oliver Fix Germany (GER)	Andraž Vehovar Slovenia (SLO)	Thomas Becker Germany (GER)
Women's K-1	Štěpánka Hilgertová Czech Republic (CZE)	Dana Chladek United States (USA)	Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi France (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 Czech Republic (CZE)	Slavomír Kňazovický Slovakia (SVK)	Imre Pulai Hungary (HUN)
C-1 1000 metres	Martin Doktor Czech Republic (CZE)	Ivans Klementjevs Latvia (LAT)	György Zala Hungary (HUN)
C-2 500 metres	Hungary (HUN) György Kolonics Csaba Horváth	Moldova (MDA) Viktor Reneysky Nicolae Juravschi	Romania (ROU) Grigore Obreja Gheorghe Andriev
C-2 1000 metres	Germany (GER) Gunar Kirchbach Andreas Dittmer	Romania (ROU) Marcel Glavan Antonel Borsan	Hungary (HUN) György Kolonics Csaba Horváth
K-1 500 metres	Antonio Rossi Italy (ITA)	Knut Holmann Norway (NOR)	Piotr Markiewicz Poland (POL)
K-1 1000 metres	Knut Holmann Norway (NOR)	Beniamino Bonomi Italy (ITA)	Clint Robinson Australia (AUS)
K-2 500 metres	Germany (GER) Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	Italy (ITA) Beniamino Bonomi Daniele Scarpa	Australia (AUS) Andrew Trim Daniel Collins
K-2 1000 metres	Italy (ITA) Daniele Scarpa Antonio Rossi	Germany (GER) Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	Bulgaria (BUL) Andrian Dushev Milko Kazanov
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 Hungary (HUN)	Caroline Brunet Canada (CAN)	Josefa Idem Italy (ITA)
K-2 500 metres	Sweden (SWE) Susanne Gunnarsson Agneta Andersson	Germany (GER) Birgit Fischer Ramona Portwich	Australia (AUS) Anna Wood Katrin Borchert
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)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.