Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Pictograms for slalom (left) and sprint (right)
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

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.

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	Portugal	0	1	0	1
16	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
17	Poland	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
19	Lithuania	0	0	0	0
Totals (19 entries)		16	15	16	47

Slalom

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Tony Estanguet  France	Sideris Tasiadis  Germany	Michal Martikán  Slovakia
Men's C-2	Timothy Baillie Etienne Stott  Great Britain	David Florence Richard Hounslow  Great Britain	Pavol Hochschorner Peter Hochschorner  Slovakia
Men's K-1	Daniele Molmenti  Italy	Vavřinec Hradilek  Czech Republic	Hannes Aigner  Germany
Women's K-1	Émilie Fer  France	Jessica Fox  Australia	Maialen Chourraut  Spain

Sprint

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 200 m	Yuriy Cheban  Ukraine	vacant [a]	Ivan Shtyl  Russia
C-1 1000 m	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	David Cal  Spain	Mark Oldershaw  Canada
C-2 1000 m	Peter Kretschmer Kurt Kuschela  Germany	Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Andrei Bahdanovich  Belarus	Alexey Korovashkov Ilya Pervukhin  Russia
K-1 200 m	Ed McKeever  Great Britain	Saúl Craviotto  Spain	Mark de Jonge  Canada
K-1 1000 m	Eirik Verås Larsen  Norway	Adam van Koeverden  Canada	Max Hoff  Germany
K-2 200 m	Alexander Dyachenko Yury Postrigay  Russia	Raman Piatrushenka Vadzim Makhneu  Belarus	Liam Heath Jon Schofield  Great Britain
K-2 1000 m	Rudolf Dombi Roland Kökény  Hungary	Fernando Pimenta Emanuel Silva  Portugal	Andreas Ihle Martin Hollstein  Germany
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
K-1 200 m	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	Inna Osypenko-Radomska  Ukraine	Nataša Dušev-Janić  Hungary
K-1 500 m	Danuta Kozák  Hungary	Inna Osypenko-Radomska  Ukraine	Bridgitte Hartley  South Africa
K-2 500 m	Franziska Weber Tina Dietze  Germany	Katalin Kovács Natasa Dusev-Janics  Hungary	Beata Mikołajczyk Karolina Naja  Poland
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

• ^{Sprint Men's C-1 200 m} On 12 June 2019, the IOC stripped Lithuanian canoeist Jevgenij Shuklin of his silver medal. Medals in this event are not redistributed yet.

Gallery

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

• 
  Tony Estanguet, pictured in 2006, won the men's C-1 slalom for France
• 
  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
• 
  David Smith was part of the Australian team that won the men's K-4 1,000m sprint

External links

• "Canoe Slalom at the 2012 Summer Olympics (London2012.com)". Archived from the original on 28 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• "Canoe Sprint at the 2012 Summer Olympics (London2012.com)". Archived from the original on 28 February 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)