# Canoeing at the 1998 Asian Games

Canoeing and Kayaking were held at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand from 8 to 11 December. Men's and women's competition were held in Kayak and men's competition in Canoe with all events having taken place at the Map Prachan Reservoir in Chonburi. The competition included only flatwater events.

## Schedule

| H | Heats | S | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 8th Tue | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 10th Thu | 11th Fri |
| Men's C-1 500 m | | | | H | S | F |
| Men's C-1 1000 m | H | S | F | | | |
| Men's C-2 500 m | | | | H | S | F |
| Men's C-2 1000 m | H | S | F | | | |
| Men's K-1 500 m | | | | H | S | F |
| Men's K-1 1000 m | H | S | F | | | |
| Men's K-2 500 m | | | | H | S | F |
| Men's K-2 1000 m | H | S | F | | | |
| Men's K-4 1000 m | H | S | F | | | |
| Women's K-1 500 m | | | | H | S | F |
| Women's K-2 500 m | | | | H | S | F |
| Women's K-4 500 m | | | | H | S | F |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| C-1 500 m details | Kaisar Nurmaganbetov Kazakhstan | Dmitriy Kovalenko Uzbekistan | Lee Seung-woo South Korea |
| C-1 1000 m details | Meng Guanliang China | Kaisar Nurmaganbetov Kazakhstan | Lee Seung-woo South Korea |
| C-2 500 m details | Kazakhstan Konstantin Negodyayev Sergey Sergeyev | South Korea Jun Kwang-rak Park Chang-kyu | China Meng Guanliang Sun Maosheng |
| C-2 1000 m details | Kazakhstan Konstantin Negodyayev Sergey Sergeyev | China Qiu Suoren Sun Maosheng | Japan Fumiaki Okawa Masanobu Ozono |
| K-1 500 m details | Yevgeniy Yegorov Kazakhstan | Anton Ryakhov Uzbekistan | Kenta Tsutsui Japan |
| K-1 1000 m details | Sergey Sergin Kazakhstan | Jiang Yuguo China | Andrey Shilin Uzbekistan |
| K-2 500 m details | Kazakhstan Dmitriy Torlopov Dmitriy Kaltenberger | China Fang Lei Wang Guizhong | Uzbekistan Vladimir Kazantsev Andrey Shilin |
| K-2 1000 m details | Kazakhstan Yevgeniy Yegorov Sergey Skrypnik | Uzbekistan Anton Ryakhov Gerart Shapar | China Fang Lei Wang Guizhong |
| K-4 1000 m details | Uzbekistan Rafayel Islamov Andrey Shilin Vladimir Kazantsev Konstantin Yashin | Indonesia Absir Laode Hadi Lampada Sayadin | China Jiang Yuguo Wang Fei Wang Hai Zheng Yi |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m details | Tatyana Sergina Kazakhstan | Sayuri Maruyama Japan | Zhou Yingjie China |
| K-2 500 m details | China Gao Beibei Zhong Hongyan | Kazakhstan Natalya Sergeyeva Tatyana Sergina | Uzbekistan Tatiana Levina Oksana Shpiganevich |
| K-4 500 m details | China Fang Ailing Gao Beibei Liu Zhimin Xian Bangxing | Uzbekistan Inna Isakova Antonina Moskaleva Irina Lyalina Oksana Shpiganevich | North Korea Jo Jong-hwa Ri Myong-bok Pang Myong-sun Kang Yon-suk |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 |

## Participating nations

A total of 169 athletes from 18 nations competed in canoeing at the 1998 Asian Games:
* China (16)
* Hong Kong (4)
* India (10)
* Indonesia (4)
* Iran (11)
* Japan (10)
* Kazakhstan (12)
* Kyrgyzstan (5)
* Laos (3)
* Myanmar (13)
* North Korea (13)
* Pakistan (9)
* Philippines (5)
* Singapore (1)
* South Korea (12)
* Tajikistan (6)
* Thailand (22)
* Uzbekistan (13)