1996 Summer Olympics / Canoe

At the XXVI. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , a total of 16 canoeing competitions were held, twelve for men and four for women. The twelve course competitions were held on the regatta course on Lake Lanier near Gainesville , the four slalom competitions in the Ocoee Whitewater Center .

Canoe racing men

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Antonio Rossi	1: 37.423 min
2	NOR	Knut Holmann	1: 38.339 min
3	POLE	Piotr Markiewicz	1: 38.615 min

Single kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	NOR	Knut Holmann	3: 25.785 min
2	ITA	Beniamino Bonomi	3: 27.073 min
3	OUT	Clint Robinson	3: 29.713 min

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	1: 28.697 min
2	ITA	Beniamino Bonomi Daniele Scarpa	1: 28.729 min
3	OUT	Daniel Collins Andrew Trim	1: 29.409 min

Two-person kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	ITA	Antonio Rossi Daniele Scarpa	3: 09.190 min
2	GER	Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche	3: 10.518 min
3	BUL	Andrian Dushew Milko Kazanov	3: 11.206 min

Quad kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Thomas Reineck Olaf Winter Detlef Hofmann Mark Zabel	2: 51.528 min
2	HUN	András Rajna Gábor Horváth Ferenc Csipes Attila Adrovicz	2: 53.184 min
3	RUS	Oleg Gorobi Sergei Werlin Georgi Zybulnikow Anatoly Tishchenko	2: 53.996 min

Single canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	CZE	Martin Doctor	1: 49.934 min
2	SVK	Slavomír Kňazovický	1: 50.510 min
3	HUN	Imre Pulai	1: 50.758 min

Single canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	CZE	Martin Doctor	3: 54.418 min
2	LAT	Ivans Klementjevs	3: 54.954 min
3	HUN	György Zala	3: 56.366 min

Two-person canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	HUN	György Kolonics Csaba Horváth	1: 40.420 min
2	MDA	Viktor Reneysky Nicolae Juravschi	1: 40.456 min
3	ROME	Gheorghe Andriev Grigore Obreja	1: 41.336

Two-person canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	GER	Andreas Dittmer Gunar Kirchbach	3: 31.870 min
2	ROME	Gheorghe Andriev Grigore Obreja	3: 32.294 min
3	HUN	György Kolonics Csaba Horváth	3: 32.514 min

Canoe racing women

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	HUN	Rita Kőbán	1: 47.655 min
2	CAN	Caroline Brunet	1: 47.891 min
3	ITA	Josefa Idem	1: 48.731 min

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	time
1	SWE	Agneta Andersson Susanne Gunnarsson	1: 39.329 min
2	GER	Birgit Fischer Ramona Portwich	1: 39.689 min
3	OUT	Anna Wood Katrin Borchert	1: 40.641 min

Quad kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	time
1	GER	Birgit Fischer Anett Schuck Ramona Portwich Manuela Mucke	1: 31.077 min
2	SUI	Ingrid Haralamow Daniela Baumer Sabine Eichenberger Gabi Müller	1: 32.701 min
3	SWE	Susanne Rosenqvist Anna Olsson Agneta Andersson Ingela Ericsson	1: 32.917 min

Canoe slalom men

Ocoee Canoe Slalom 1996

One kayak

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GER	Oliver Fix	141.22
2	SLO	Andraž Vehovar	141.65
3	GER	Thomas Becker	142.79

Canadians

space	country	athlete	Points
1	SVK	Michal Martikán	151.03
2	CZE	Lukáš Pollert	151.17
3	FRA	Patrice Estanguet	152.84

Two-man Canadians

space	country	athlete	Points
1	FRA	Franck Adisson Wilfrid Forgues	158.82
2	CZE	Jiří Rohan Miroslav Šimek	160.16
3	GER	André Ehrenberg Michael Senft	163.72

Canoe slalom women

One kayak

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CZE	Štěpánka Hilgertová	169.49
2	United States	Dana Chladek	169.49
3	FRA	Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi	171.00

The American Dana Chladeck narrowly missed the gold medal with the same total number of points because her second run was worse.