Canoeing has been featured as competition sports in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1936 Games in Berlin, although they were demonstration sports at the 1924 Games in Paris.^[1] There are two disciplines of canoeing in Olympic competition: slalom and sprint.

Two styles of boats are used in this sport: canoes with 1 or 2 canoers and kayaks with 1, 2 or 4 kayakers. This leads to the name designation of each event. For example, "C-1" is a canoe singles event and "K-2" is a kayak doubles event. Races are usually 500 metres or 1000 metres long, although there were also 10 km events from 1936 to 1956. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be replaced at the 2012 Summer Olympics by 200 m events with one of them being K-1 200 m for the women. The other events for men at 200 m will be C-1, K-1, and K-2.^[2] This was confirmed at their 2009 Board of Directors meeting in Windsor, Berkshire, Great Britain on 5 December 2009.^[3]

Updated after the 2020 Summer Olympics and after silver and bronze medals reallocation in 2021 in London 2012 Men's C-1 200 metres event.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	34	19	24	77
2	Soviet Union	29	13	9	51
3	Hungary	28	31	27	86
4	Sweden	15	11	4	30
5	East Germany	14	7	9	30
6	Romania	10	10	14	34
7	New Zealand	10	3	2	15
8	France	8	9	19	36
9	Slovakia	8	7	5	20
10	Czechoslovakia	7	4	1	12
11	Italy	6	7	4	17
12	United States	6	5	6	17
13	Norway	6	4	4	14
14	Spain	5	10	5	20
15	Australia	5	8	14	27
16	Great Britain	5	8	6	19
17	Czech Republic	5	6	6	17
18	Finland	5	2	3	10
19	Canada	4	11	11	26
20	Bulgaria	4	5	8	17
21	United Team of Germany	4	5	2	11
22	Denmark	3	6	7	16
23	Austria	3	5	6	14
24	Ukraine	3	3	4	10
25	China	3	2	0	5
26	West Germany	2	6	3	11
27	Russia	2	4	7	13
28	Belarus	2	3	4	9
29	Yugoslavia	2	2	1	5
30	Cuba	1	3	0	4
31	Brazil	1	2	1	4
32	Slovenia	1	2	0	3
33	Unified Team	1	1	0	2
34	Poland	0	8	14	22
35	Netherlands	0	3	5	8
36	Latvia	0	2	0	2
37	Azerbaijan	0	1	1	2
	Moldova	0	1	1	2
	Portugal	0	1	1	2
40	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
42	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
	Togo	0	0	1	1
Totals (46 entries)		242	242	243	727

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