Canoeing_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics

Canoeing
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Canoeing; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Dates	August 11–23, 2008
Competitors	128
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Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 11 to 23 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

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Peter Hochschorner and Pavol Hochschorner from Slovakia became the first slalom canoeists to win three Olympic gold medals.

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 details	Michal Martikán Slovakia	David Florence Great Britain	Robin Bell Australia
Men's C-2 details	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner (SVK)	Ondřej Štěpánek and Jaroslav Volf (CZE)	Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov (RUS)
Men's K-1 details	Alexander Grimm Germany	Fabien Lefèvre France	Benjamin Boukpeti Togo
Women's K-1 details	Elena Kaliská Slovakia	Jacqueline Lawrence Australia	Violetta Oblinger-Peters Austria

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres details	Maxim Opalev Russia	David Cal Spain	Iurii Cheban Ukraine
C-1 1000 metres details	Attila Vajda Hungary	David Cal Spain	Thomas Hall Canada
C-2 500 metres details	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun (CHN)	Alexander Kostoglod and Sergey Ulegin (RUS)	Christian Gille and Thomasz Wylenzek (GER)
C-2 1000 metres details	Aliaksandr Bahdanovich and Andrei Bahdanovich (BLR)	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)	György Kozmann and Tamás Kiss (HUN)
K-1 500 metres details	Ken Wallace Australia	Adam van Koeverden Canada	Tim Brabants Great Britain
K-1 1000 metres details	Tim Brabants Great Britain	Eirik Verås Larsen Norway	Ken Wallace Australia
K-2 500 metres details	Saúl Craviotto and Carlos Pérez (ESP)	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)
K-2 1000 metres details	Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein (GER)	Kim Wraae Knudsen and René Holten Poulsen (DEN)	Andrea Facchin and Antonio Scaduto (ITA)
K-4 1000 metres details	Belarus (BLR) Raman Piatrushenka Aliaksei Abalmasau Artur Litvinchuk Vadzim Makhneu	Slovakia (SVK) Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	Germany (GER) Lutz Altepost Norman Bröckl Torsten Eckbrett Bjorn Hogel Goldschmidt

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Inna Osypenko Ukraine	Josefa Idem Italy	Katrin Wagner-Augustin Germany
K-2 500 metres details	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics (HUN)	Beata Mikołajczyk and Aneta Konieczna (POL)	Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard (FRA)
K-4 500 metres details	Germany (GER) Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt Katrin Wagner-Augustin Conny Waßmuth	Hungary (HUN) Katalin Kovács Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Nataša Janić	Australia (AUS) Lisa Oldenhof Hannah Davis Chantal Meek Lyndsie Fogarty

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	3	2	3	8
2	Slovakia (SVK)	3	1	0	4
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
4	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	1	3
5	Spain (ESP)	1	2	0	3
6	Australia (AUS)	1	1	3	5
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
7	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
9	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
10	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
11	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
18	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
18	Togo (TOG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	16	48

Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics