# Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was contested in two main disciplines: canoe slalom, from 7 to 11 August, and canoe sprint, from 15 to 20 August. 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.
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.

## Competition schedule

| H | Heats | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
Slalom :
| Event↓/Date → | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | 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 :
| Event↓/Date → | Mon 15 | Mon 15 | Tue 16 | Wed 17 | Wed 17 | Thu 18 | Fri 19 | 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 details | Denis Gargaud Chanut France | Matej Beňuš Slovakia | Takuya Haneda Japan |
| Men's C-2 details | Ladislav Škantár Peter Škantár Slovakia | David Florence Richard Hounslow Great Britain | Gauthier Klauss Matthieu Péché France |
| Men's K-1 details | Joe Clarke Great Britain | Peter Kauzer Slovenia | Jiří Prskavec Czech Republic |
| Women's K-1 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 | 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 |
* $^{Men'sC-11000metres}$ Serghei Tarnovschi of Moldova finished third, but was stripped of his bronze medal due to a failed doping test.

##### 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 |
| 13 | Serbia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | Russia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Belarus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 16 | 16 | 17 | 49 |