1992 Summer Olympics / Canoe

At the XXV. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona there were 16 canoeing competitions (twelve for men and four for women) . The two disciplines canoe slalom and canoe racing were represented.

The fastest boats in the canoe races on the new regatta course in Castelldefels were painted pink. In the twelve competitions held, the German starters took home half of the gold medals. There were two Olympic victories in a two-man kayak over 500 and 1000 meters for Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche from Berlin , who had already escaped their pursuers three seconds at halftime on the longer route but were only just ahead of the Swedish boat at the finish. The German kayak four also won gold and relegated the boats from Hungary and Australia to their places. In the singles competitions in the kayak, the Finn Mikko Kolehmainen over 500 meters and the Australian Clint Robinson over 1000 meters were able to secure the gold medals.

In the women's category, Birgit Schmidt , better known by her maiden name Fischer, was able to repeat her Olympic victory from Moscow twelve years earlier in a single kayak . Together with Katrin Borchert and the Olympic champions in two, Ramona Portwich and Anke von Seck , she also won silver in four. All they had to do was give in to the Hungarian boat.

In the races in the Canadier , in which the athletes kneel in their boats, the Bulgarian Nikolai Buchalow was the outstanding participant. He won both gold medals in the 500 and 1000 meters. In the two-man canoe, the relatively unknown Belarusians Aljaksandr Massjajkou and Dsmitryj Dauhaljonak won over the shorter distance ahead of the two German Ulrich Papke and Ingo Spelly , who in turn celebrated the Olympic victory over 1000 meters the next day.

After canoe slalom was part of the Olympic program in Munich in 1972 , the athletes were able to prove themselves in four boat classes on the newly built slalom course in La Seu d'Urgell . The medals all went to different nations. The men's single kayak was won by the Italian Pierpaolo Ferrazzi , while Elisabeth Micheler from Augsburg won the women 's kayak during a violent thunderstorm . The Olympic champion in the canoe one was Lukáš Pollert from the ČSFR and in the canoe two the boat from the USA won.

Canoe racing men

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	FIN	Mikko Kolehmainen	1: 40.34
2	HUN	Zsolt Gyulay	1: 40.64
3	NOR	Knut Holmann	1: 40.71

Single kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	OUT	Clint Robinson	3: 37.26
2	NOR	Knut Holmann	3: 37.50
3	United States	Gregory Barton	3: 37.93

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	1: 28.27
2	POLE	Maciej Freimut Wojciech Kurpiewski	1: 29.84
3	ITA	Bruno Dreossi Antonio Rossi	1: 30.00

Two-person kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	3: 16.10
2	SWE	Gunnar Olsson Karl Sundqvist	3: 17.70
3	POLE	Grzegorz Kotowicz Dariusz Białkowski	3: 18.86

Quad kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Mario von Appen Oliver Kegel Thomas Reineck André Wohllebe	2: 54.18
2	HUN	Ferenc Csipes Zsolt Gyulay Attila Ábrahám László Fidel	2: 54.82
3	OUT	Kelvin Graham Ian Rowling Steven Wood Ramon Andersson	2: 56.97

Single canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	BUL	Nikolai Bukhalov	1: 51.32
2	EUN	Mikhail Slivinsky	1: 51.40
3	GER	Olaf Heukrodt	1: 53.00

Single canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	BUL	Nikolai Bukhalov	4: 05.92
2	LAT	Ivans Klementjevs	4: 06.60
3	HUN	György Zala	4: 07.35

Two-person canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	EUN	Dmitri Dovgalenok Alyaksandr Massjajkou	1: 41.54
2	GER	Ulrich Papke Ingo Spelly	1: 41.68
3	BUL	Martin Marinow Blagowest Stojanow	1: 41.94

Two-person canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Ulrich Papke Ingo Spelly	3: 37.42
2	THE	Arne Nielsson Christian Frederiksen	3: 39.26
3	FRA	Didier Hoyer Olivier Boivin	3: 39.51

Canoe racing women

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	GER	Birgit Schmidt	1: 51.60
2	HUN	Rita Kőbán	1: 51.96
3	POLE	Izabella Dylewska	1: 52.36

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	time
1	GER	Ramona Portwich Anke von Seck	1: 40.29
2	SWE	Agneta Andersson Susanne Gunnarsson	1: 40.41
3	HUN	Rita Kőbán Éva Dónusz	1: 40.81

Quad kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	time
1	HUN	Éva Dónusz Kinga Czigány Erika Mészáros Rita Kőbán	1: 38.32
2	GER	Katrin Borchert Birgit Schmidt Anke von Seck Ramona Portwich	1: 38.47
3	SWE	Anna Olsson Maria Haglund Susanne Rosenqvist Agneta Andersson	1: 39.79

Canoe slalom men

Segre Olympic Park in La Seu d'Urgell, panorama

Kayak One

space	country	athlete	Points
1	ITA	Pierpaolo Ferrazzi	106.89
2	FRA	Sylvain Curinier	107.06
3	GER	Jochen Lettmann	109.72

Canadians

space	country	athlete	Points
1	TCH	Lukáš Pollert	113.69
2	GBR	Gareth Marriott	116.48
3	FRA	Jacky Avril	135.75

Two-man Canadians

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Joe Jacobi Scott Strausbaugh	122.41
2	TCH	Jiří Rohan Miroslav Šimek	124.25
3	FRA	Franck Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	124.38

Canoe slalom women

One kayak

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	GER	Elisabeth Micheler	126.41
2	OUT	Danielle Woodward	128.27
3	United States	Dana Chladek	131.75