Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

The canoeing competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta / USA was composed of 16 events in two disciplines, slalom and sprint. Timing in 1/1000ths of a second began at these games for the sprint events.

Canoeing at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
No. of events	16

Medal summary

Slalom

Slalom events took place at Ocoee Whitewater Center near Ducktown, Tennessee.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Michal Martikán  Slovakia	Lukáš Pollert  Czech Republic	Patrice Estanguet  France
Men's C-2	Frank Adisson and Wilfrid Forgues (FRA)	Jiří Rohan and Miroslav Šimek (CZE)	André Ehrenberg and Michael Senft (GER)
Men's K-1	Oliver Fix  Germany	Andraž Vehovar  Slovenia	Thomas Becker  Germany
Women's K-1	Štěpánka Hilgertová  Czech Republic	Dana Chladek  United States	Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi  France

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	Slavomír Kňazovický  Slovakia	Imre Pulai  Hungary
C-1 1000 metres	Martin Doktor  Czech Republic	Ivans Klementjevs  Latvia	György Zala  Hungary
C-2 500 metres	Hungary (HUN) György Kolonics Csaba Horváth	Moldova (MDA) Viktor Reneysky Nicolae Juravschi	Romania (ROU) Gheorghe Andriev Grigore Obreja
C-2 1000 metres	Germany (GER) Andreas Dittmer Gunar Kirchbach	Romania (ROU) Marcel Glavan Antonel Borsan	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Horváth György Kolonics
K-1 500 metres	Antonio Rossi  Italy	Knut Holmann  Norway	Piotr Markiewicz  Poland
K-1 1000 metres	Knut Holmann  Norway	Beniamino Bonomi  Italy	Clint Robinson  Australia
K-2 500 metres	Germany (GER) Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	Italy (ITA) Beniamino Bonomi Daniele Scarpa	Australia (AUS) Daniel Collins Andrew Trim
K-2 1000 metres	Italy (ITA) Antonio Rossi Daniele Scarpa	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	Caroline Brunet  Canada	Josefa Idem  Italy
K-2 500 metres	Sweden (SWE) Agneta Andersson Susanne Gunnarsson	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
Totals (19 nations)		16	16	16	48

References

• 1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. pp. 162–74. (in English and French)
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.