# 2008 Canoe Sprint European Championships

The 2008 Canoe Sprint European Championships were held in Milan, Italy.

## Medal overview
### Men

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| C1-200m | Nikolai Lipkin | 40.204 | Dzmitry Vaitsishkin | 41.627 | László Foltán Jr. | 41.707 |
| C2-200m | Tomas Gadeikis Raimundas Labuckas | 37.167 | Evgeny Ignatov Ivan Shtyl | 37.177 | Attila Végh Gergely Kovács | 38.577 |
| C4-200m | Ivan Shtyl Evgeny Ignatov Nikolai Lipkin Viktor Melantyev | 34.613 | Péter Balázs Gábor Horváth Márton Joób Pál Sarudi | 34.979 | Aliaksandr Bahdanovich Dzmitry Rabchanka Andrei Bahdanovich Aliaksandr Zhukouski | 35.096 |
| K1-200m | Vytautas Vaičikonis | 36.333 | Péter Molnár | 36.506 | Aleksejs Rumjancevs | 36.536 |
| K2-200m | Vadzim Makhneu Raman Piatrushenka | 32.920 | Egidijus Balčiūnas Alvydas Duonėla | 33.374 | Péter Molnár Viktor Kadler | 33.454 |
| K4-200m | Raman Piatrushenka Dziamyan Turchyn Vadzim Makhneu Ruslan Bichan | 30.721 | Ognjen Filipović Bora Sibinkić Milan Djenadić Dragan Zorić | 30.784 | Márton Sík Gergely Boros Attila Csamango Balázs Babella | 31.094 |
| C1-500m | Nikolai Lipkin | 1:56.156 | Sebastian Brendel | 1:56.435 | Yuriy Cheban | 1:57.569 |
| C2-500m | Sergey Ulegin Alexander Kostoglod | 1:48.271 | György Kolonics György Kozmann | 1:48.918 | Deyan Georgiev Adnan Aliev | 1:49.028 |
| C4-500m | Cătălin Costache Constantin Popa Silviu Simioncencu Nicolae Flocea | 1:39.237 | Gábor Horváth Péter Balázs Pál Sarudi Márton Joób | 1:40.547 | Mikhail Pavlov Roman Kruglyakov Alexander Kovalev Dmitri Sergeev | 1:40.857 |
| K1-500m | Kasper Bleibach | 1:44.598 | Michele Zerial | 1:44.638 | Anton Ryahov | 1:45.275 |
| K2-500m | Tim Wieskötter Ronald Rauhe | 1:33.432 | Saúl Craviotto Rivero Carlos Pérez Rial | 1:33.925 | Egidijus Balčiūnas Alvydas Duonėla | 1:35.222 |
| K4-500m | Erik Vlček Michal Riszdorfer Richard Riszdorfer Juraj Tarr | 1:20.655 | Zoltán Benkő Gábor Kucsera Viktor Kadler Zoltán Kammerer | 1:21.822 | Vadzim Makhneu Artur Litvinchuk Aliaksei Abalmasau Raman Piatrushenka | 1:21.822 |
| C1-1000m | Mathieu Goubel | 3:58.869 | Konstantin Fomichev | 3:59.723 | Sebastian Brendel | 4:00.989 |
| C2-1000m | Andrei Bahdanovich Aliaksandr Bahdanovich | 3:40.655 | Sergey Bezugliy Maksym Prokopenko | 3:41.192 | Paweł Baraszkiewicz Wojciech Tyszynski | 3:41.955 |
| C4-1000m | Dzmitry Rabchanka Dzmitry Vaitsishkin Kanstantsin Shcharbak Aliaksandr Vauchetski | 3:23.386 | Cătălin Costache Florin Mironcic Andrei Cuculici Josif Chirilă | 3:24.559 | Arkadiusz Toński Adam Ginter Łukasz Gros Łukasz Woszczyński | 3:25.116 |
| K1-1000m | Tim Brabants | 3:33.493 | Gábor Kucsera | 3:33.563 | Max Hoff | 3:34.960 |
| K2-1000m | René Poulsen Kim Wråe Knudsen | 3:16.003 | Javier Hernanz Diego Cosgaya | 3:16.336 | Philippe Colin Cyrille Carré | 3:17.616 |
| K4-1000m | Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr Michal Riszdorfer Richard Riszdorfer | 3:02.876 | Torsten Eckbrett Lutz Altepost Norman Bröckl Björn Goldschmidt | 3:04.284 | Antonio Rossi Franco Benedini Luca Piemonte Alberto Ricchetti | 3:04.532 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| K1-200m | Lucy Wainwright | 41.399 | Inna Osypenko-Radomska | 41.607 | Dorota Kuczkowska | 42.471 |
| K2-200m | Martina Kohlová Ivana Kmetová | 38.198 | Sandra Pawelczak Marta Walczykiewicz | 39.158 | Melinda Patyi Krisztina Fazekas | 39.183 |
| K4-200m | Melinda Patyi Krisztina Fazekas Danuta Kozák Tímea Paksy | 35.915 | Nadezda Petrova Nadezda Pishulina Natalia Lobova Alexandra Tomnikova | 36.559 | Miljana Knezevic Antonija Panda Marta Tibor Renata Kubik | 36.592 |
| K1-500m | Katalin Kovács | 1:56.195 | Katrin Wagner-Augustin | 1:56.475 | Josefa Idem | 1:57.035 |
| K2-500m | Danuta Kozák Gabriella Szabó | 1:48.459 | Jenni Mikkonen Anne Rikala | 1:49.426 | Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt | 1:49.502 |
| K4-500m | Conny Waßmuth Carolin Leonhardt Katrin Wagner-Augustin Nicole Reinhardt | 1:32.953 | Danuta Kozák Tímea Paksy Krisztina Fazekas Dalma Benedek | 1:33.547 | Beatriz Manchón Jana Smidakova Teresa Portela Rivas Sonia Molanes Costa | 1:34.813 |
| K1-1000m | Dalma Benedek | 3:59.304 | Antonija Nađ | 4:03.961 | Marina Schuck | 4:04.134 |
| K2-1000m | Erika Medveczky Berenike Faldum | 3:44.105 | Marta Walczykiewicz Sandra Pawelczak | 3:47.095 | Lidia Talpă Alina Chirilă | 3:49.932 |
| K4-1000m | Dalma Benedek Krisztina Fazekas Alexandra Keresztesi Tímea Paksy | 3:28.303 | Beata Mikołajczyk Edyta Dzieniszewska Małgorzata Chojnacka Ewelina Wojnarowska | 3:30.613 | Alina Chirilă Lidia Talpă Florica Vulpeş Iulia Pascu | 3:36.400 |

### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Hungary | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| 2 | Russia | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Belarus | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Slovakia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Germany | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | Lithuania | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Denmark | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Great Britain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Romania | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | France | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Poland | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 12 | Serbia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Spain | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 27 | 27 | 27 | 81 |