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Canoeing
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Canoeing; at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
	Pictograms for the Slalom (left) and Sprint (right)
Venue	Olympic Whitewater Stadium (slalom); Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (sprint)
Dates	7–11 August 2016 for Slalom; 15–20 August 2016 for Sprint
No. of events	16
Competitors	334 from 53 nations
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Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, from 7 to 11 August,^[1] and canoe sprint, from 15 to 20 August.^[2] The slalom competition was held at the Olympic Whitewater Stadium; whereas the sprint events were staged at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Copacabana. The location for canoeing events was a source of concern for athletes since the Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab has found the genes of drug-resistant super bacteria in Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon.^[3]^[4]

Around 330 athletes participated in 16 events.

Qualification

A new qualification system had been created for both slalom and sprint canoeing at the 2016 Olympic Games. The quotas were set for each event by the International Canoe Federation in August 2014.^[5]

Competition schedule

H	Heats	½	Semifinals	F	Final

**Slalom**^[6]
Event↓/Date →	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9		Wed 10		Thu 11
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**^[6]
Event↓/Date →	Mon 15		Tue 16	Wed 17		Thu 18	Fri 19		Sat 20
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

Participating

Participating nations

Argentina (10)
Australia (18)
Austria (2)
Azerbaijan (4)
Belarus (12)
Belgium (1)
Brazil (13)
Bulgaria (2)
Canada (9)
China (10)
Cook Islands (2)
Cuba (6)
Czech Republic (12)
Denmark (5)
Ecuador (1)
Egypt (2)
France (17)
Georgia (1)
Germany (16)
Great Britain (11)
Hungary (18)
Italy (4)
Japan (5)
Kazakhstan (13)
Latvia (2)
Lebanon (1)
Lithuania (6)
Moldova (1)
Morocco (1)
Mexico (1)
Mozambique (2)
New Zealand (9)
Nigeria (1)
Palau (1)
Poland (15)
Portugal (7)
Romania (8)
Russia (19)
Samoa (1)
São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
Senegal (3)
Serbia (10)
Slovakia (12)
Slovenia (6)
South Africa (1)
South Korea (2)
Spain (11)
Sweden (5)
Tunisia (3)
Turkey (1)
Ukraine (9)
United States (5)
Uzbekistan (4)

Competitors

Medal summary

By event

Slalom

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1^[7] details	Denis Gargaud Chanut France	Matej Beňuš Slovakia	Takuya Haneda Japan
Men's C-2^[7] details	Ladislav Škantár Peter Škantár Slovakia	David Florence Richard Hounslow Great Britain	Gauthier Klauss Matthieu Péché France
Men's K-1^[7] details	Joe Clarke Great Britain	Peter Kauzer Slovenia	Jiří Prskavec Czech Republic
Women's K-1^[7] details	Maialen Chourraut Spain	Luuka Jones New Zealand	Jessica Fox Australia

Sprint

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 200 metres details	Yuriy Cheban Ukraine	Valentin Demyanenko Azerbaijan	Isaquias Queiroz Brazil
C-1 1000 metres details ^[a]	Sebastian Brendel Germany	Isaquias Queiroz Brazil	Ilia Shtokalov Russia
C-2 1000 metres details	Sebastian Brendel Jan Vandrey Germany	Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz Brazil	Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk Ukraine
K-1 200 metres details	Liam Heath Great Britain	Maxime Beaumont France	Saúl Craviotto Spain Ronald Rauhe Germany
K-1 1000 metres details	Marcus Walz Spain	Josef Dostál Czech Republic	Roman Anoshkin Russia
K-2 200 metres details	Saúl Craviotto Cristian Toro Spain	Liam Heath Jon Schofield Great Britain	Aurimas Lankas Edvinas Ramanauskas Lithuania
K-2 1000 metres details	Max Rendschmidt Marcus Gross Germany	Marko Tomićević Milenko Zorić Serbia	Ken Wallace Lachlan Tame Australia
K-4 1000 metres details	Germany (GER) Max Rendschmidt Tom Liebscher Max Hoff Marcus Gross	Slovakia (SVK) Denis Myšák Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr Tibor Linka	Czech Republic (CZE) Daniel Havel Lukáš Trefil Josef Dostál Jan Štěrba

^{Men's C-1 1000 metres} Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova finished third, but was stripped of his bronze medal due to a failed doping test.^[8]^[9]

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 200 metres details	Lisa Carrington New Zealand	Marta Walczykiewicz Poland	Inna Osypenko-Radomska Azerbaijan
K-1 500 metres details	Danuta Kozák Hungary	Emma Jørgensen Denmark	Lisa Carrington New Zealand
K-2 500 metres details	Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Hungary	Franziska Weber Tina Dietze Germany	Beata Mikołajczyk Karolina Naja Poland
K-4 500 metres details	Hungary (HUN) Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Tamara Csipes Krisztina Fazekas	Germany (GER) Sabrina Hering Franziska Weber Steffi Kriegerstein Tina Dietze	Belarus (BLR) Marharyta Makhneva Nadzeya Liapeshka Volha Khudzenka Maryna Litvinchuk

By nation

Key

* Host nation (Brazil)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	4	2	1	7
2	Spain	3	0	1	4
3	Hungary	3	0	0	3
4	Great Britain	2	2	0	4
5	Slovakia	1	2	0	3
6	France	1	1	1	3
6	New Zealand	1	1	1	3
8	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
9	Brazil*	0	2	1	3
10	Czech Republic	0	1	2	3
11	Azerbaijan	0	1	1	2
11	Poland	0	1	1	2
13	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
16	Australia	0	0	2	2
16	Russia	0	0	2	2
18	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		16	16	17	49

References

^ "Rio 2016: Canoe Slalom". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 14 January 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
^ "Rio 2016: Canoe Sprint". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
^ "Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches". Reuters. 11 June 2016. The second new study, by the Brazilian federal government's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation lab, which will be published next month by the American Society for Microbiology, found the genes of super bacteria in the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon in the heart of Rio and in a river that empties into Guanabara Bay. Waste from countless hospitals, in addition to hundreds of thousands of households, pours into storm drains, rivers and streams crisscrossing Rio, allowing the super bacteria to spread outside the city's hospitals in recent years.
^ "Scientists reportedly find super bacteria in several Rio Olympic venues". Fox News. 11 June 2016. A 2014 study had already shown the presence of super bacteria off one of the beaches in Guanabara Bay, where sailing and wind-surfing events are going to be held. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has already declared super bacteria an urgent public health crisis.
^ "Rio 2016 – ICF Canoe & Kayak Qualification System" (PDF). ICF. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Rio 2016: Ticket Guide – Search for Sessions". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro Canoe Slalom Results" (PDF). 7–11 August 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
^ "Media release. Doping - Canoeing. Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) confirms the decision rendered by the international Canoe Federation (ICF) in the case of Serghei Tarnovschi" (PDF). Court of Arbitration for Sport. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
^ "Rio 2016 C-1 1000m (canoe single) men".