1988 Summer Olympics / Canoe

At the XXIV Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988 , a total of 12 canoeing competitions, exclusively distance competitions, were held, 9 for men and 3 for women.

Men

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	HUN	Zsolt Gyulay	1: 44.82 min
2	GDR	Andreas Steels	1: 46.38 min
3	NZL	Paul MacDonald	1: 46.46 min
4th	United States	Mike Herbert	1: 46.73 min
5	SWE	Karl Sundqvist	1: 46.76 min
6th	TCH	Attila Szabó	1: 47.38 min
7th	OUT	Martin Hunter	1: 47.66 min
8th	FRG	Dirk Joestel	1: 47.91 min
9	URS	Viktor Pusew	1: 48.83 min

Single kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Gregory Barton	3: 55.27 min
2	OUT	Grant Davies	3: 55.28 min
3	GDR	André Wohllebe	3: 55.55 min
4th	URS	Dmitri Bankovsky	3: 56.49 min
5	SWE	Gunnar Olsson	3: 56.84 min
6th	NZL	Alan Thompson	3: 56.91 min
7th	TCH	Attila Szabó	3: 57.52 min
8th	NOR	Morten Iversen	3: 59.18 min
9	HUN	Ferenc Csipes	4: 00.30 min

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	NZL	Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	1: 33.98 min
2	URS	Igor Nagayev Viktor Denisov	1: 34.15 min
3	HUN	Attila Ábrahám Ferenc Csipes	1: 34.32 min
4th	FRG	Reiner Scholl Thomas Pfrang	1: 34.40 min
5	ROU	Daniel Stoian Angelin Velea	1: 35.96 min
6th	POLE	Maciej Freimut Wojciech Kurpiewski	1: 36.22 min
7th	GDR	Kay Bluhm André Wohllebe	1: 36.49 min
8th	United States	Terry Kent Terry White	1: 36.62 min
9	ITA	Beniamino Bonomi Daniele Scarpa	1: 37.30 min

Two-person kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	United States	Gregory Barton Norman Bellingham	3: 32.42 min
2	NZL	Ian Ferguson Paul MacDonald	3: 32.71 min
3	OUT	Peter Foster Kelvin Graham	3: 33.76 min
4th	FRG	Niels Ellwanger Carsten Lömker	3: 34.63 min
5	GDR	Guido Behling Torsten Krentz	3: 35.44 min
6th	ROME	Daniel Stoian Angelin Velea	3: 35.75 min
7th	SWE	Ohlsén Hans Olsson is different	3: 36.13 min
8th	NOR	Svein Egil Solvang Harald Amundsen	3: 38.16 min
9	HUN	Tibor Helyi András Rajna	3: 43.43 min

Quad kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	HUN	Zsolt Gyulay Ferenc Csipes Sándor Hódosi Attila Ábrahám	3:00, 20 min
2	URS	Oleksandr Motusenko Sergei Kirsanov Igor Nagayev Viktor Denisov	3: 1.40 min
3	GDR	Kay Bluhm André Wohllebe Hans-Jörg Bliesener Andreas Stähle	3: 02.37 min
4th	OUT	Bryan Thomas Steve Wood Grant Kenny Paul Gilmour	3: 03.70 min
5	POLE	Maciej Freimut Wojciech Kurpiewski Grzegorz Krawców Kazimierz Krzyżański	3: 04.73 min
6th	FRG	Gilbert Schneider Reiner Scholl Dirk Joestel Thomas Reineck	3: 05.43 min
7th	ITA	Beniamino Bonomi Daniele Scarpa Alessandro Pieri Francesco Mandragona	3: 05.97 min
8th	SWE	Per-Inge Bengtsson Lars-Erik Moberg Karl Sundqvist Bengt Andersson	3: 06.03 min
9	FRA	Didier Vavasseur Christophe Petibout Pierre Lubac Daniel Legras	3: 08.71 min

Single canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Olaf Heukrodt	1: 56.52 min
2	URS	Mikhail Slivinsky	1: 57.26 min
3	BUL	Martin Marimow	1: 57.27 min
4th	HUN	Attila Szabó	1: 59.87 min
5	POLE	Jan Pinczura	1: 59.90 min
6th	ROU	Aurel Macarencu	2: 00.98 min
7th	ESP	Narciso Suarez	2: 01.33 min
8th	TCH	Petr Procházka	2: 01.36 min
9	GBR	Eric Jamieson	2: 02.27 min

Single canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Ivans Klementjevs	4: 12.78 min
2	GDR	Jörg Schmidt	4: 15.83 min
3	BUL	Nikolai Bukhalov	4: 18.94 min
4th	CAN	Larry Cain	4: 20.70 min
5	ROU	Aurel Macarencu	4: 21.72 min
6th	HUN	Imre Pulai	4: 21.86 min
7th	TCH	Peter Páleš	4: 22.14 min
8th	YUG	Ivan Sabjan	4: 24.67 min
9	GBR	Eric Jamieson	4: 39.60 min

Two-person canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Viktor Reneysky Nicolae Juravschi	1: 41.77 min
2	POLE	Marek Dopierała Marek Łbik	1: 43.61 min
3	FRA	Philippe Renaud Joël Bettin	1: 43.81 min
4th	BUL	Dejan Bonew Petar Boschilow	1: 44.32 min
5	GDR	Alexander Schuck Thomas Zereske	1: 44.36 min
6th	HUN	János Sarusi Kis István Vaskuti	1: 44.85 min
7th	ROU	Grigore Obreja Gheorghe Andriev	1: 45.84 min
8th	THE	Christian Frederiksen Arne Nielsson	1: 45.90 min
9	TCH	Petr Procházka Alan Lohniský	1: 51.00 min

Two-person canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Viktor Reneysky Nicolae Juravschi	3: 48.36 min
2	GDR	Olaf Heukrodt Ingo Spelly	3: 51.44 min
3	POLE	Marek Dopierała Marek Łbik	3: 54.33 min
4th	THE	Christian Frederiksen Arne Nielsson	3: 54.94 min
5	FRG	Hartmut Faust Wolfram Faust	3: 55.62 min
6th	ROU	Grigore Obreja Gheorghe Andriev	3: 56.56 min
7th	HUN	Gábor Takács Gusztáv Leikep	4: 04.18 min
8th	FRA	Pascal Sylvoz Didier Hoyer	4: 04.75 min
9	BUL	Dejan Bonew Petar Boschilow	4: 11.42 min

Women

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	BUL	Vanya Geschewa	1: 55.19 min
2	GDR	Birgit Fischer	1: 55.31 min
3	POLE	Izabela Dylewska	1: 57.38 min
4th	HUN	Rita Kőbán	1: 57.58 min
5	THE	Yvonne Knudsen	1: 58.80 min
6th	United States	Traci Phillips	2: 00.81 min
7th	URS	Galina Sawenko	2: 00.88 min
8th	SWE	Agneta Andersson	2: 01.00 min
9	FRG	Josefa Idem	2: 1.80 min

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	time
1	GDR	Birgit Fischer Anke Nothnagel	1: 43.46 min
2	BUL	Wanja Geschewa Diana Palijska	1: 44.06 min
3	NED	Annemiek Derckx Annemarie Cox	1: 46.00 min
4th	HUN	Erika Mészáros Éva Rakusz	1: 46.58 min
5	URS	Irina Salomikova Irina Kmelevskaya	1: 47.68 min
6th	SWE	Anna Olsson Agneta Andersson	1: 48.39 min
7th	United States	Sheila Conover Cathy Marino	1: 50.33 min
8th	CAN	Barbara Olmsted Sheila Taylor	1: 51.03 min
9	POLE	Bożena Ksiąźek Jolanta Łukaszewicz	1: 51.13 min

Quad kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	time
1	GDR	Birgit Fischer Anke Nothnagel Ramona Portwich Heike Singer	1: 40.78 min
2	HUN	Erika Géczi Erika Mészáros Éva Rakusz Rita Kőbán	1: 41.88 min
3	BUL	Wanja Geschewa Diana Palijska Ogniana Petkowa Borislawa Iwanowa	1: 42.63 min
4th	URS	Aleksandra Apanoviča Irina Chmelewskaja Irina Salomikowa Nadezhda Kowalewitsch	1: 44.26 min
5	FRG	Andrea Martin Claudia Österheld Josefa Idem Ruth Domgörgen	1: 45.62 min
6th	SWE	Agneta Andersson Anna Olsson Liselotte Ohlson Susanne Wiberg	1: 45.67 min
7th	THE	Birgitte Froberg Jeanette Knudsen Susanne Sandgaard Petersen Yvonne Knudsen	1: 47.10 min
8th	POLE	Bożena Ksiąźek Elżbieta Urbańczyk Jolanta Łukaszewicz Katarzyna Weiss	1: 47.40 min
9	United States	Cathy Marino Sheila Conover Shirley Dery Traci Phillips	1: 47.94 min

literature

• Official Report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume One, Part Two (PDF) (25.99 MB)
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .