2008 Summer Olympics / Canoe

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , 16 decisions were made in canoeing , twelve for men and four for women. These 16 decisions included four in canoe slalom , including one for women, and twelve in canoe racing , including three for women.

All competitions were held in the newly built rowing and canoeing park Shunyi .

qualification

Each NOK was allowed to send one boat to the start per competition, provided they secured a quota place in various qualifying competitions. The main qualification competitions were the 2007 World Championships in Duisburg (flat water) and Foz do Iguaçu (canoe slalom). In addition, there were various continental precipitations in spring 2008.

Canoe racing

As the host nation, China had a place in the single competitions. If a Chinese boat had not qualified directly via the global or the Asian elimination, it would take the place of the last qualified boat in the world championships.

Single kayak men 500 m

Canada (World Cup 2007)  United Kingdom (2007 World Cup)  Poland (World Cup 2007)  Germany (World Cup 2007)

United States (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)  Croatia (World Cup 2007)  South Africa (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe and one for all other continents.

Single kayak men 1000 m

United Kingdom (2007 World Cup)  Canada (World Cup 2007)  Norway (World Cup 2007)  Australia (World Cup 2007)

New Zealand (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)  South Africa (World Cup 2007)  Slovenia (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe and one for all other continents .

Two-person kayak men 500 m

Germany (World Cup 2007)  Belarus (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)

Lithuania (World Cup 2007)  Latvia (World Cup 2007)  Canada (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe, one for America and one for Asia .

Two men 1000 m

France (World Cup 2007)  Poland (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)  Germany (World Cup 2007)

Belgium (World Cup 2007)  Finland (World Cup 2007)  New Zealand (World Cup 2007)

There was also another starting place for Europe, one for America and one for Asia.

Quad kayak men 1000 m

Germany (World Cup 2007)  Poland (World Cup 2007)  Slovakia (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)

Belarus (World Cup 2007)  Russia (World Cup 2007)  Australia (World Cup 2007)

There was also another starting place for Europe, one for America and one for Asia.

Single Canadier men 500 m

Spain (World Cup 2007)  Germany (World Cup 2007)  People's Republic of China (World Cup 2007)

Poland (World Cup 2007)  Canada (World Cup 2007)  Romania (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe and one for all other continents.

One-Canadier men 1000 m

Hungary (World Cup 2007)  Slovakia (World Cup 2007)  Spain (World Cup 2007)

Germany (World Cup 2007)  Russia (World Cup 2007)  Mexico (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe and one for all other continents.

Two-man Canadians, men 500 m

Hungary (World Cup 2007)  Romania (World Cup 2007)  Germany (World Cup 2007)

Poland (World Cup 2007)  People's Republic of China (World Cup 2007)  Ukraine (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe, one for America and one for Asia.

Two-man Canadians men 1000 m

Germany (World Cup 2007)  Cuba (World Cup 2007)  Poland (World Cup 2007)

Romania (World Cup 2007)  Belarus (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe, one for America and one for Asia.

Single kayak women 500 m

Hungary (World Cup 2007)  Finland (World Cup 2007)  Germany (World Cup 2007)  Ukraine (World Cup 2007)

United States (World Cup 2007)  South Africa (World Cup 2007)  Poland (World Cup 2007)  Italy (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe and one for all other continents.

Two-person kayak women 500 m

Germany (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)  France (World Cup 2007)

Slovakia (World Cup 2007)  Poland (World Cup 2007)  Italy (World Cup 2007)

In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe, one for America and one for Asia.

Quad kayak women 500 m

Germany (World Cup 2007)  Hungary (World Cup 2007)  Poland (World Cup 2007)  People's Republic of China (World Cup 2007)

Italy (World Cup 2007)  Australia (World Cup 2007)  South Africa (World Cup 2007)

There was also another starting place for Europe, one for America and one for Asia.

Canoe slalom

The best 15 in a single kayak (women and men), 10 in a single canoe (men) and 6 in a two-person canoe (men) at the World Championships in Foz do Iguaçu from September 19 to 23, 2007 qualified for Beijing. In addition, there were two further starting places for Europe and one for all other continents in all disciplines, which were awarded in the event of eliminations in late 2007 and early 2008. As the host, China had a starting place in every competition. If no Chinese boat qualifies for Beijing via the World Championships or the Asian elimination, it will take the place of the last qualified boat in the World Championships.

One-kayak men

France  United Kingdom  Slovakia  Italy  Spain

Poland  Germany  United States  Austria  Czech Republic

Switzerland  Slovenia  Ireland  Canada  Togo

One-Canadians men

France  Slovakia  Australia  Germany

United Kingdom  Poland  Spain

Czech Republic  Russia  Canada

Two-man Canadians

Slovakia  Czech Republic  Italy

France  Germany  Russia

One-kayak women

Czech Republic  Slovakia  Germany  France  United Kingdom

Austria  Andorra  Spain  Poland  Russia

Australia  Netherlands  United States  Japan  People's Republic of China

Olympic tournament

Canoe race men

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	OUT	Ken Wallace	1: 37.252
2	CAN	Adam van Koeverden	1: 37.630
3	GBR	Tim Brabants	1: 37.671
4th	NOR	Eirik Verås Larsen	1: 37.949
5	RUS	Anton Ryachov	1: 38.187
6th	HUN	Ákos Vereckei	1: 38.318
7th	SWE	Not so Gustafsson	1: 38.447
8th	NZL	Steven Ferguson	1: 38.512
9	CRO	Stjepan Janic	1: 38.729

Date: August 23, 2008, 3:30 p.m.

Single kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GBR	Tim Brabants	3: 26.323
2	NOR	Eirik Verås Larsen	3: 27.342
3	OUT	Ken Wallace	3: 27.485
4th	NZL	Ben Fouhy	3: 29.193
5	GER	Max Hoff	3: 29.391
6th	SWE	Markus Oscarsson	3: 30.198
7th	CRO	Stjepan Janic	3: 30.495
8th	CAN	Adam van Koeverden	3: 31.793
9	HUN	Zoltán Benkő	3: 32.120

Date: August 22, 2008, 3:30 p.m.

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	ESP	Saúl Craviotto Carlos Pérez	1: 28.736
2	GER	Ronald Rauhe Tim Wieskötter	1: 28.827
3	BLR	Raman Petruschenka Wadzim Machneu	1: 30.005
4th	HUN	Zoltán Kammerer Gábor Kucsera	1: 30.285
5	THE	Kim Wraae Knudsen René Holten Poulsen	1: 30.569
6th	CAN	Richard Dober Jr. Andrew Willows	1: 30.857
7th	FRA	Vincent Lecrubier Sébastien Jouve	1: 31.312
8th	POLE	Marek Twardowski Adam Wysocki	1: 31.869
9	ITA	Andrea Facchin Antonio Scaduto	1: 31.934

Date: August 23, 2008, 4:35 pm

Two-person kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GER	Martin Hollstein Andreas Ihle	3: 11.809
2	THE	Kim Wraae Knudsen René Holten Poulsen	3: 13.580
3	ITA	Andrea Facchin Antonio Scaduto	3: 14.750
4th	HUN	Zoltán Kammerer Gábor Kucsera	3: 15.049
5	NZL	Mike Walker Steven Ferguson	3: 15.329
6th	FRA	Philippe Colin Cyrille Carré	3: 16.532
7th	LAT	Krists Straume Kristaps Zaļupe	3: 19.387
8th	CHN	Shen Jie Huang Zhipeng	3: 22.058
DSQ	POLE	Adam Seroczyński Mariusz Kujawski	3: 14.828

Date: August 22, 2008, 4:35 pm

The fourth-placed Poles were disqualified because of a positive doping test with Adam Seroczyński .

Quad kayak 1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	BLR	Raman Petruschenka Aljaksej Abalmassau Artur Litvintschuk Wadzim Machneu	2: 55.714
2	SVK	Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Tarr	2: 56.593
3	GER	Lutz Altepost Norman Bröckl Torsten Eckbrett Björn Goldschmidt	2: 56.676
4th	ITA	Franco Benedini Antonio Rossi Alberto Ricchetti Luca Piemonte	2: 57.626
5	HUN	Márton Sík István Beé Ákos Vereckei Gábor Bozsik	2: 59.009
6th	POLE	Marek Twardowski Tomasz Mendelski Paweł Baumann Adam Wysocki	2: 59.505
7th	CHN	Li Zhen Liu Haitao Zhou Peng Lin Miao	3: 00.078
8th	RUS	Ilya Medvedev Yevgeny Salachow Anton Wassiljew Konstantin Vishnyakov	3: 00.654
9	CAN	Brady Reardon Angus Mortimer Chris Pellini Rhys Hill	3: 01.630

Date: August 22, 2008, 5:20 pm

Single canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	RUS	Maxim Opalew	1: 47.140
2	ESP	David Cal	1: 48.397
3	UKR	Yury Cheban	1: 48.766
4th	FRA	Mathieu Goubel	1: 49.056
5	BLR	Aljaksandr Schukouski	1: 49.092
6th	CHN	Li Qiang	1: 49.287
7th	ROME	Florin Mironcic	1: 49.861
8th	POLE	Paweł Baraszkiewicz	1: 50.048
9	HUN	Attila Vajda	1: 50.156

Date: August 23, 2008, 3:45 p.m.

Single canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	HUN	Attila Vajda	3: 50.467
2	ESP	David Cal	3: 52.751
3	CAN	Thomas Hall	3: 53.653
4th	UZB	Wadim Menkow	3: 54.237
5	BLR	Aljaksandr Schukouski	3: 55.645
6th	ROME	Florin Mironcic	3: 57.876
7th	FRA	Mathieu Goubel	3: 57.889
8th	GER	Andreas Dittmer	3: 57.894
9	CUB	Aldo Pruna	3: 59.087

Date: August 22, 2008, 3:45 p.m.

Two-person canoe 500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	CHN	Meng Guanliang Yang Wenjun	1: 41.025
2	RUS	Sergei Ulegin Alexander Kostoglod	1: 41.282
3	GER	Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	1: 41.964
4th	BLR	Andrej Bahdanowitsch Aljaksandr Bahdanowitsch	1: 41.996
5	CAN	Andrew Russell Gabriel Beauchesne-Sevigny	1: 42.450
6th	ROME	Iosif Chirilă Andrei Cuculici	1: 43.195
7th	BUL	Dejan Georgiev Adnan Aliev	1: 43.971
8th	UKR	Sergij Referenzlyy Maksym Prokopenko	1: 44.157
9	POLE	Daniel Jędraszko Roman Rynkiewicz	1: 44.389

Date: August 23, 2008, 5:05 p.m.

Two-person canoe 1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	BLR	Andrej Bahdanowitsch Aljaksandr Bahdanowitsch	3: 36.365
2	GER	Christian Gille Tomasz Wylenzek	3: 36.588
3	HUN	György Kozmann Tamás Kiss	3: 40.258
4th	ROME	Constantin Popa Niculae Flocea	3: 40.342
5	CHN	Chen Zhongyun Zhang Zhiwu	3: 40.593
6th	CAN	Andrew Russell Gabriel Beauchesne-Sevigny	3: 41.165
7th	POLE	Wojciech Tyszyński Paweł Baraszkiewicz	3: 42.845
8th	RUS	Sergei Ulegin Alexander Kostoglod	3: 44.669
9	CUB	Serguey Torres Karel Aguilar	3: 48.877

Date: August 22, 2008, 5:05 p.m.

Canoe racing women

Single kayak 500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	UKR	Inna Ossypenko	1: 50.673
2	ITA	Josefa Idem	1: 50.677
3	GER	Katrin Wagner-Augustin	1: 51.022
4th	HUN	Katalin Kovács	1: 51.139
5	CHN	Zhong Hongyan	1: 52.220
6th	SLO	Špela Ponomarenko	1: 52.363
7th	GBR	Lucy Wainwright	1: 53.102
8th	RSA	Jennifer Hodson	1: 53.353
9	RUS	Juliana Salachowa	1: 53.973

Date: August 23, 2008, 4:20 pm

Two-person kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	Time (min)
1	HUN	Katalin Kovács Natasa Janics	1: 41.308
2	POLE	Beata Mikołajczyk Aneta Konieczna	1: 42.092
3	FRA	Marie Delattre Anne-Laure Viard	1: 42.128
4th	GER	Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt	1: 42.899
5	JPN	Shinobu Kitamoto Mikiko Takeya	1: 43.291
6th	OUT	Hannah Davis Lyndsie Fogarty	1: 43.969
7th	FIN	Anne Rikala Jenni Mikkonen	1: 44.176
8th	CZE	Michala Mrůzková Jana Blahová	1: 44.870
9	AUT	Yvonne Schuring Viktoria Schwarz	1: 44.965

Date: August 23, 2008, 5:20 pm

Quad kayak 500 m

space	country	Sportswomen	Time (min)
1	GER	Fanny Fischer Nicole Reinhardt Katrin Wagner-Augustin Conny Waßmuth	1: 32.231
2	HUN	Katalin Kovács Gabriella Szabó Danuta Kozák Natasa Janics	1: 32.971
3	OUT	Lisa Oldenhof Hannah Davis Chantal Meek Lyndsie Fogarty	1: 34.704
4th	POLE	Beata Mikołajczyk Aneta Konieczna Edyta Dzieniszewska Dorota Kuczkowska	1: 34.752
5	ESP	Beatriz Manchón Jana Smidaková Sonia Molanes Teresa Portella	1: 35.366
6th	JPN	Shinobu Kitamoto Ayaka Kuno Mikiko Takeya Yumiko Suzuki	1: 36.465
7th	RSA	Michele Eray Carol Joyce Nicola Mocke Jennifer Hodson	1: 36.724
8th	ITA	Stefania Cicali Alessandra Galiotto Fabiana Sgroi Alice Fagioli	1: 36.770
9	CHN	Xu Yaping Zhong Hongyan Yu Lamei Liang Peixing	1: 37.418

Date: August 22, 2008, 4:20 pm

Canoe slalom men

Kayak One

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	GER	Alexander Grimm	171.70
2	FRA	Fabien Lefèvre	173.30
3	TOG	Benjamin Boukpeti	173.45
4th	IRL	Eoin Rheinisch	176.91
5	OUT	Warwick Draper	177.85
6th	CAN	David Ford	178.35
7th	AUT	Helmut Oblinger	178.83
8th	POLE	Dariusz Popiela	179.68

Date: August 12, 2008, 5:17 pm

Of the 21 participants, fifteen qualified for the semi-finals and ten for the final. The Swiss Michael Kurt had to retire early because he was only 17th in the two preliminary races. After the first run only in 20th place, the Togolese Benjamin Boukpeti was able to qualify for the semifinals with a good second run and caused a surprise there with his best time. Both the German Alexander Grimm and the Austrian Helmut Oblinger managed to place in the top 10 in the semi-finals and thus qualify for the final. Grimm, who started fourth from last because of his fourth place in the semifinals, was initially able to undercut the fastest time of the previously leader. Then the French Fabien Lefèvre , the Australian Warwick Draper and the Togolese Boukpeti failed because of Grimm's time, so that Grimm won the first gold medal at this Olympic Games for the German team. Lefèvre came in second, Benjamin Boukpeti reached third place and thus won the first ever medal at the Olympics for Togo. The Austrian Helmut Oblinger came in seventh.

Canoe One

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	SVK	Michal Martikán	176.65
2	GBR	David Florence	178.61
3	OUT	Robin Bell	180.59
4th	ESP	Other Elosegi	182.12
5	CZE	Stanislav Ježek	182.29
6th	United States	Benn Fraker	183.14
7th	GRE	Christos Tsakmakis	186.67
8th	POLE	Krzysztof Bieryt	200.21
...	...	...
12	GER	Jan Benzien	95.15 (HF)

Date: August 12, 2008, 4:47 pm

The Slovak Michal Martikán continued his streak of success at the Olympic Games. After gold in 1996 and two silver medals in 2000 and 2004, he again prevailed on the difficult route in Shunyi . Despite two penalty seconds each, he was the fastest in the semifinals and finals. With just one touch of a goal, the Briton David Florence finished second. The Australian Robin Bell drove from fifth place in the semifinals to bronze . Two of the favorites, Frenchman Tony Estanguet , gold medalist from Sydney and Athens , and German Jan Benzien , reigning runner-up world and European champion, failed in the semifinals. Estanguet finished ninth, while the runner-up Benzien lost considerable speed after a risky maneuver in a water roller and in the end missed the final by three seconds. An Austrian canoe driver was not at the start.

Canoe twos

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	SVK	Pavol Hochschorner Peter Hochschorner	190.82
2	CZE	Jaroslav Volf Ondřej Štěpánek	192.89
3	RUS	Mikhail Kuznetsov Dmitri Larionov	197.37
4th	FRA	Cédric Forgit Martin Braud	198.19
5	ITA	Andrea Benetti Erik Masoero	204.12
6th	GER	Felix Michel Sebastian Piersig	204.43
7th	OUT	Mark Bellofiore Lachlan Milne	104.17
8th	POLE	Paweł Sarna Marcin Pochwała	105.32

Date: August 15, 2008, 4:12 pm

For the third time in a row, the Slovak twin brothers Pavol and Peter Hochschorner achieved Olympic victory in the Canadian two-man. After the heats, the two were in the front. The German duo Felix Michel and Sebastian Piersig were also among the top 10 and qualified for the semi-finals . The only African and American teams from South Africa and the United States had to leave. In the semifinals, Michel and Piersig relegated the Slovaks to second place by touching the goal and thus taking two penalty seconds and taking the lead themselves. In the final, the six remaining teams started in the reverse order of the semifinals. After the times of the Italians, the French and the Russians Michail Kuznetsov and Dmitri Larionov had been undercut by the Czechs Jaroslav Volf and Ondřej Štěpánek , it was clear that they would at least have the bronze medal. The next starting favorites from Slovakia were able to increase this time again and since the leading Germans Michel and Piersig fell back to the last and sixth place in the final due to several mistakes, after they had capsized and lost almost 15 seconds to the Hochschorners, it was clear that Slovakia won the second gold medal in these games.

Canoe slalom women

Kayak One

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	SVK	Elena Kaliská	192.64
2	OUT	Jacqueline Lawrence	206.94
3	AUT	Violetta Oblinger-Peters	214.77
4th	JPN	Yuriko Takeshita	219.30
5	POLE	Agnieszka Stanuch	221.08
6th	NED	Ariane Herd	231.99
7th	FRA	Émilie Fer	251.96
8th	United States	Heather Corrie	270.88
...	...	...
15th	GER	Jennifer Bongardt	203.29 (HF)

Date: August 15, 2008, 4:37 pm

Also in the kayak One of the women could Slovakia win the gold medal; Elena Kaliská had already won in Athens in 2004 and secured first place with the best time in the run-up, semi-finals and final. After the semifinals in fourth place, Jacqueline Lawrence moved up to the silver rank in front of the Austrian Violetta Oblinger-Peters , who even drove from seventh place after the semifinals to bronze. In a promising second place after the semi-finals, the French Émilie Fer missed a goal and fell back to seventh place. The German Jennifer Bongardt , who was still world and European champion in 2007, was eliminated in fourth of the preliminary rounds in the semifinals after missing two goals and finishing the competition in fifteenth.

Medal table canoe

Medal table canoe
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
01	Germany	3	2	3	8th
02	Slovakia	3	1	-	4th
03	Hungary	2	1	1	4th
04th	Belarus	2	-	1	3
05	Spain	1	2	-	3
06th	Australia	1	1	3	4th
07th	Russia	1	1	1	3
	United Kingdom	1	1	1	3
09	Ukraine	1	-	1	1
10	People's Republic of China	1	-	-	1
11	France	-	1	1	2
12	Italy	-	1	1	2
	Canada	-	1	1	2
14th	Czech Republic	-	1	-	1
	Denmark	-	1	-	1
	Norway	-	1	-	1
	Poland	-	1	-	1
18th	Austria	-	-	1	1
	Togo	-	-	1	1