Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 11 to 23 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

Canoeing at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
Dates	August 11–23, 2008
Competitors	128

Peter Hochschorner and Pavol Hochschorner from Slovakia became the first slalom canoeists to win three Olympic gold medals.

Qualification

Main article: Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Medal summary

By event

Slalom

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Michal Martikán  Slovakia	David Florence  Great Britain	Robin Bell  Australia
Men's C-2	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner (SVK)	Ondřej Štěpánek and Jaroslav Volf (CZE)	Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov (RUS)
Men's K-1	Alexander Grimm  Germany	Fabien Lefèvre  France	Benjamin Boukpeti  Togo
Women's K-1	Elena Kaliská  Slovakia	Jacqueline Lawrence  Australia	Violetta Oblinger-Peters  Austria

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Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Maxim Opalev  Russia	David Cal  Spain	Iurii Cheban  Ukraine
C-1 1000 metres	Attila Vajda  Hungary	David Cal  Spain	Thomas Hall  Canada
C-2 500 metres	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun (CHN)	Alexander Kostoglod and Sergey Ulegin (RUS)	Christian Gille and Thomasz Wylenzek (GER)
C-2 1000 metres	Aliaksandr Bahdanovich and Andrei Bahdanovich (BLR)	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek (GER)	György Kozmann and Tamás Kiss (HUN)
K-1 500 metres	Ken Wallace  Australia	Adam van Koeverden  Canada	Tim Brabants  Great Britain
K-1 1000 metres	Tim Brabants  Great Britain	Eirik Verås Larsen  Norway	Ken Wallace  Australia
K-2 500 metres	Saúl Craviotto and Carlos Pérez (ESP)	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu (BLR)
K-2 1000 metres	Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein (GER)	Kim Wraae Knudsen and René Holten Poulsen (DEN)	Andrea Facchin and Antonio Scaduto (ITA)
K-4 1000 metres	Belarus (BLR) Raman Piatrushenka Aliaksei Abalmasau Artur Litvinchuk Vadzim Makhneu	Slovakia (SVK) Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	Germany (GER) Lutz Altepost Norman Bröckl Torsten Eckbrett Bjorn Hogel Goldschmidt

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Inna Osypenko  Ukraine	Josefa Idem  Italy	Katrin Wagner-Augustin  Germany
K-2 500 metres	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics (HUN)	Beata Mikołajczyk and Aneta Konieczna (POL)	Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard (FRA)
K-4 500 metres	Germany (GER) Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt Katrin Wagner-Augustin Conny Waßmuth	Hungary (HUN) Katalin Kovács Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Nataša Janić	Australia (AUS) Lisa Oldenhof Hannah Davis Chantal Meek Lyndsie Fogarty

By nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	3	2	3	8
2	Slovakia (SVK)	3	1	0	4
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
4	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	1	3
5	Spain (ESP)	1	2	0	3
6	Australia (AUS)	1	1	3	5
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
	Russia (RUS)	1	1	1	3
9	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
10	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
11	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
14	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
18	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Togo (TOG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	16	48

References

• International Canoe Federation
• 2008 Olympic Qualification System
• Flatwater Racing Quotas Situation after Global Qualification Competition

External links

• Canoe/Kayak Flatwater Racing – Official Results Book
• Canoe/Kayak Slalom – Official Results Book