Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, from 29 July to 2 August, and canoe sprint, from 6 to 11 August.^[1] The slalom competition was held at the Lee Valley White Water Centre and the sprint events were staged at Eton College Rowing Centre, at Dorney Lake, known as Eton Dorney.

Canoeing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Pictograms for slalom (left) and sprint (right)
Venue	Lee Valley White Water Centre (slalom) Eton Dorney (sprint)
Dates	29 July – 2 August 2012 (slalom) 6–11 August 2012 (sprint)
Competitors	330
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Around 330 athletes took part in 16 events. The men's 500m sprints were replaced by a 200m race; in addition, the men's C-2 500m was replaced by a women's K-1 200m sprint.^[2] This was confirmed at an International Canoe Federation board meeting at Windsor, Berkshire, on 5 December 2009.^[3] For the first time, women competed in two individual events in sprint canoeing. Because of the changes, the finals were spread over a three-day period instead of the traditional two days which had been in effect since the 1976 Games.^[4] The most successful nation in the slalom was France, with two gold medals in the four events, followed by Great Britain with one gold and one silver. In the sprint, Hungary was the most successful with three gold, two silver and one bronze medal, while Germany topped the medal table overall, with three gold, two silver and three bronze medals.

Qualification

Main article: Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

A new qualification system was created for both slalom and sprint canoeing at the 2012 Games. The quotas were set for each event by the International Canoe Federation in July 2010.

Competition schedule

Eton Dorney, in Buckinghamshire, was the venue for the sprint discipline.

H	Heats	½	Semifinals	F	Final

Slalom^[5]

Event↓/Date →	Sun 29	Mon 30	Tue 31		Wed 1		Thu 2
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 6		Tue 7		Wed 8	Thu 9	Fri 10		Sat 11
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

Jessica Fox competing at the 2012 Olympics in K1

Medal summary

By event

Slalom

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 details	Tony Estanguet  France	Sideris Tasiadis  Germany	Michal Martikán  Slovakia
Men's C-2 details	Timothy Baillie Etienne Stott  Great Britain	David Florence Richard Hounslow  Great Britain	Pavol Hochschorner Peter Hochschorner  Slovakia
Men's K-1 details	Daniele Molmenti  Italy	Vavřinec Hradilek  Czech Republic	Hannes Aigner  Germany
Women's K-1 details	Émilie Fer  France	Jessica Fox  Australia	Maialen Chourraut  Spain

Sprint

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 200 m details	Yuriy Cheban  Ukraine	Ivan Shtyl  Russia [a]	Alfonso Benavides  Spain
C-1 1000 m details	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	David Cal  Spain	Mark Oldershaw  Canada
C-2 1000 m details	Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela (GER)	Aliaksandr Bahdanovich and Andrei Bahdanovich (BLR)	Alexey Korovashkov and Ilya Pervukhin (RUS)
K-1 200 m details	Ed McKeever  Great Britain	Saúl Craviotto  Spain	Mark de Jonge  Canada
K-1 1000 m details	Eirik Verås Larsen  Norway	Adam van Koeverden  Canada	Max Hoff  Germany
K-2 200 m details	Alexander Dyachenko and Yury Postrigay (RUS)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)	Liam Heath and Jon Schofield (GBR)
K-2 1000 m details	Rudolf Dombi and Roland Kökény (HUN)	Fernando Pimenta and Emanuel Silva (POR)	Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein (GER)
K-4 1000 m details	Australia (AUS) Tate Smith Dave Smith Murray Stewart Jacob Clear	Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Kammerer Dávid Tóth Tamás Kulifai Dániel Pauman	Czech Republic (CZE) Daniel Havel Lukáš Trefil Josef Dostál Jan Štěrba

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 200 m details	Lisa Carrington  New Zealand	Inna Osypenko  Ukraine	Nataša Dušev-Janić  Hungary
K-1 500 m details	Danuta Kozák  Hungary	Inna Osypenko  Ukraine	Bridgitte Hartley  South Africa
K-2 500 m details	Franziska Weber and Tina Dietze (GER)	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Dusev-Janics (HUN)	Beata Mikołajczyk and Karolina Naja (POL)
K-4 500 m details	Hungary (HUN) Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Katalin Kovács Krisztina Fazekas Zur	Germany (GER) Carolin Leonhardt Franziska Weber Katrin Wagner-Augustin Tina Dietze	Belarus (BLR) Iryna Pamialova Nadzeya Papok Volha Khudzenka Maryna Pautaran

• ^{Sprint Men's C-1 200 m} On 12 June 2019, the IOC stripped Lithuanian canoeist Jevgenij Shuklin of his silver medal.^[7]

Gallery

Gallery of some of the gold medalists in the canoeing events:

• 
  Tony Estanguet, pictured in 2006, won the men's C-1 slalom for France
• 
  Émilie Fer, also from France, pictured winning the women's K-1 slalom
• 
  Sebastian Brendel, of Germany, won gold in the men's C-1 1,000m sprint
• 
  David Smith was part of the Australian team that won the men's K-4 1,000m sprint

By nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	3	2	3	8
2	Hungary	3	2	1	6
3	Great Britain	2	1	1	4
4	France	2	0	0	2
5	Ukraine	1	2	0	3
6	Russia	1	1	1	3
7	Australia	1	1	0	2
8	Italy	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand	1	0	0	1
	Norway	1	0	0	1
11	Spain	0	2	2	4
12	Belarus	0	2	1	3
13	Canada	0	1	2	3
14	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
15	Portugal	0	1	0	1
16	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
17	Poland	0	0	1	1
	South Africa	0	0	1	1
19	Lithuania	0	0	0	0
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	16	48