Canoeing at the Summer Olympics

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.

Canoeing at the Summer Olympics
Governing body	ICF
Events	16 (men: 8; women: 8)
Games
1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 Note: demonstration or exhibition sport years indicated in italics
Medalists men women

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]

Events

The following tables shows which events were contested at each Games.

Slalom

Current program
Event	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Total
Men's C-1	•					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Men's K-1	•					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Women's C-1													•	1
Women's K-1	•					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Past events
Event	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Total
Men's C-2	•					•	•	•	•	•	•	•		8
Total	4	0	0	0	0	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4

Sprint

Current program
Event	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Total
Men's C-1 1000 m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	20
Men's C-2 1000 m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	20
Men's K-1 200 m																		•	•	•	3
Men's K-1 1000 m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	20
Men's K-2 1000 m	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	20
Men's K-4 500 m																				•	1
Women's C-1 200 m																				•	1
Women's C-2 500 m																				•	1
Women's K-1 200 m																		•	•	•	3
Women's K-1 500 m		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	19
Women's K-2 500 m					•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	16
Women's K-4 500 m											•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	10
Past events
Event	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Total
Men's C-1 200 m																		•	•		2
Men's C-1 500 m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•				9
Men's C-1 10000 m		•	•	•																	3
Men's C-2 500 m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•				9
Men's C-2 10000 m	•	•	•	•																	4
Men's K-1 500 m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•				9
Men's K-1 10000 m	•	•	•	•																	4
Men's K-1 4 × 500 m					•																1
Men's K-2 200 m																		•	•		2
Men's K-2 500 m									•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•				9
Men's K-2 10000 m	•	•	•	•																	4
Men's K-4 1000 m						•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		14
Men's folding K-1 10000 m	•																				1
Men's folding K-2 10000 m	•																				1
Total	9	9	9	9	7	7	7	7	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Medal table

See also: List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men) and List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (women)

Updated after the 2016 Summer Olympics

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	32	18	20	70
2	Soviet Union (URS)	29	13	9	51
3	Hungary (HUN)	25	29	26	80
4	Sweden (SWE)	15	11	4	30
5	East Germany (GDR)	14	7	9	30
6	Romania (ROU)	10	10	14	34
7	France (FRA)	8	9	19	36
8	Slovakia (SVK)	8	6	4	18
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	7	4	1	12
10	New Zealand (NZL)	7	3	2	12
11	Italy (ITA)	6	6	4	16
12	Norway (NOR)	6	4	4	14
13	Great Britain (GBR)	5	7	5	17
14	Spain (ESP)	5	7	4	16
15	United States (USA)	5	5	6	16
16	Finland (FIN)	5	2	3	10
17	Canada (CAN)	4	10	10	24
18	Bulgaria (BUL)	4	5	8	17
19	Czech Republic (CZE)	4	5	5	14
20	United Team of Germany (EUA)	4	5	2	11
21	Australia (AUS)	3	8	13	24
22	Denmark (DEN)	3	6	5	14
23	Austria (AUT)	3	5	6	14
24	Ukraine (UKR)	3	2	3	8
25	West Germany (FRG)	2	6	3	11
26	Russia (RUS)	2	3	8	13
27	Belarus (BLR)	2	2	4	8
28	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	2	1	5
29	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
30	Unified Team (EUN)	1	1	0	2
31	Poland (POL)	0	7	13	20
32	Netherlands (NED)	0	3	5	8
33	Cuba (CUB)	0	3	0	3
34	Brazil (BRA)	0	2	1	3
35	Latvia (LAT)	0	2	0	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	2	0	2
37	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	1	2
38	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
42	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (46 nations)		226	225	227	678

Nations

Nation	96	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Years
Andorra (AND)																										1				1
Angola (ANG)																										1	2			2
Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)																							3							1
Argentina (ARG)																				1	8	5	4	3	2	2	3	10		9
Australia (AUS)													8	7	10	6	7	8	5	9	8	17	23	21	16	16	20	18		16
Austria (AUT)										9	7	7	7	10	5	4	12	2	6	2		4	3	4	2	4	4	2		18
Armenia (ARM)																								1						1
Azerbaijan (AZE)																											3	4		2
Belarus (BLR)																							4	5	9	8	12	12		6
Belgium (BEL)										9	9	4	2	4	2	3	8	11	6	5	2	2	3	1	3	2	4	1		19
Bolivia (BOL)															1	1														2
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)																						1	1		1					3
Brazil (BRA)																						6	3	4	2	2	3	13		7
Bulgaria (BUL)														5	2	3	7	12	12		12	11	11	7	7	2	1	2		14
Canada (CAN)							(D)			8	7	11	9	6	6	10	12	14		15	14	18	21	16	19	21	8	9		19
Chile (CHI)																									1	1				2
China (CHN)																				4	4	4	8		15	23	18	10		8
Cook Islands (COK)																											2	2		2
Costa Rica (CRC)																						4	2							2
Croatia (CRO)																						4	4	4	3	2	1			6
Cuba (CUB)																	2		3			5		3	4	4	6	6		8
Czech Republic (CZE)																							25	19	10	7	11	12		6
Czechoslovakia (TCH)										13	13	13	5	10	4	5	23	11	9		9	27								12
Denmark (DEN)										4	7	9	7	9	7	5	6	1	1	1	6	6	4	3	2	4	5	5		19
East Germany (GDR)																12	26	11	13		15									5
Ecuador (ECU)																											1	1		2
Egypt (EGY)																											1	2		2
Estonia (EST)																						1	1	1						3
Finland (FIN)										3	5	10	6	9	3	5	4	7	4	5	3	2	1	1	2	4	2			18
France (FRA)										3	10	13	6	9	2	6	14	13	11	14	16	31	19	14	13	15	14	15		19
Georgia (GEO)																												1		1
Germany (GER)										14		10										29	27	25	26	22	21	16		19
Great Britain (GBR)										3	7	7	3	7	5	10	20	11	11	15	17	25	17	12	9	7	15	11		19
Greece (GRE)																								1	6	3	1			4
Guam (GUM)																										1				1
Guatemala (GUA)																							1							1
Hong Kong (HKG)																		6		7	2	2								4
Hungary (HUN)										5	5	12	13	9	10	10	12	14	16		16	14	19	15	16	16	13	18		18
Independent Olympic Participants (IOP)																						5								1
Indonesia (INA)																						3			1					2
Iran (IRI)																								1			2			2
Ireland (IRL)																	4	4	2	1	4	5	6	3	2	1	3			11
Israel (ISR)																				1			1	5	3	1				5
Italy (ITA)										1		6		12	4	2	10	11	5	7	5	18	15	8	8	16	8	4		17
Ivory Coast (CIV)																3	5			4	2	2	2			1				7
Japan (JPN)															12	2	5	3		5	8	6	8	2	5	9	8	5		13
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																							8	4	3	7	5	13		6
Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)																							2							1
Latvia (LAT)																						3	3	1	1	3	2	2		7
Lebanon (LIB)																												1		1
Lithuania (LTU)																						1	2	3	3	4	2	6		7
Luxembourg (LUX)										3	3	4		3																4
Macedonia (MKD)																							3	1	1	1				4
Malaysia (MAS)																							1							1
Mexico (MEX)																12	7	4		2		4	6	2		3	1	1		10
Moldova (MDA)																							4					1		2
Morocco (MAR)																								1			1	1		3
Mozambique (MOZ)																												1		1
Myanmar (MYA)																										1				1
Netherlands (NED)										9	7	5		4	5	7	2	2	6	3	2	4	2		2	2				15
New Zealand (NZL)																	2	4	3	6	7	8	1		2	5	8	9		11
Nigeria (NGR)																											1	1		2
Norway (NOR)										1	4	4	1	2		5	6	7		13	7	7	5	4	6	1	2			16
Palau (PLW)																												1		1
Panama (PAN)																							1							1
Peru (PER)																						1								1
Poland (POL)										2	3		4	6	9	8	23	13	15		12	18	23	21	23	21	13	15		17
Portugal (POR)																					3	7	6	1	1	4	6	7		8
Romania (ROU)												1	5	11	11	11	11	13	14	14	5	14	14	13	10	5	11	8		17
Russia (RUS)																							14	12	8	14	21	19		6
Saar (SAA)												3																		1
Samoa (SAM)																										1	1	1		3
São Tomé and Príncipe (STP)																										1		1		2
Senegal (SEN)																										2	1	3		3
Serbia (SRB)																											12	10		2
Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)																							1	6	2					3
Seychelles (SEY)																									1	1				2
Singapore (SIN)																											1			1
Slovakia (SVK)																							17	19	16	12	12	12		6
Slovenia (SLO)																						6	5	4	4	3	6	6		7
South Africa (RSA)																						11	1	2	1	10	2	1		7
South Korea (KOR)																				2	15	6	2	1		1		2		7
Soviet Union (URS)												13	9	12	13	11	15	15	15		17									9
Spain (ESP)														2		5	4	7	5	10	11	22	19	17	14	10	8	11		14
Sweden (SWE)										9	9	10	6	6	7	11	10	11	12	11	11	13	12	10	5	3	6	5		19
Switzerland (SUI)										9	6	7		4			6		3	4	1	6	8	3	4	1	2			14
Thailand (THA)																											1			1
Togo (TOG)																									1	1	1			3
Tunisia (TUN)																											3	3		2
Turkey (TUR)																												1		1
Ukraine (UKR)																							13	11	7	6	2	9		6
United Team of Germany (EUA)													10	10	12															3
Unified Team (EUN)																						19								1
United States (USA)							(D)			10	8	9	12	13	11	12	26	16		16	16	32	25	14	17	7	7	6		19
Uruguay (URU)																						1			1					2
Uzbekistan (UZB)																							17	1	7	1	2	4		6
Venezuela (VEN)																										3				1
Vietnam (VIE)																									1					1
West Germany (FRG)																13	28	13		15	14									5
Yugoslavia (YUG)										4		1		3	4	2	13	1	3	3	3									10
No. of nations																														94
No. of athletes
Year	96	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20

See also

• List of Olympic venues in canoeing

References

1. Olympic sprint events
2. "IOC announcement of canoe sprint format changes for the 2012 Summer Olympics". International Canoe Federation. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
3. "The Board of Directors Wrap Up in Windsor." - International Canoe Federation (5 December 2009) - accessed 18 December 2009.