Summer Paralympics 2016 / Parakanu

Para canoe at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas
Nations	26th
Athletes	60
date	14.-15. September 2016
decisions	6th
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At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , medals were awarded for the first time in a total of six parakanu competitions. The decisions were made on September 15, 2016 in Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas . There were three competitions each for men and women, with 30 participants of each gender; each participant started individually in a 200 m sprint.

Classes

The Paralympic Para canoe competitions are divided into three classes:

• F1 (formerly A; arms): Athletes who can only paddle with the help of their arms and / or shoulders.
• F2 (formerly TA; Trunk / Arms Rumpf / Arme): Athletes who can only control the canoe with their arms and / or shoulders or with their torso.
• F3 (formerly LTA; Legs / Trunk / Arms legs / trunk / arms): Disabled athletes who can still use the trunk, arms and legs to steer.

Qualified nations

•  Argentina
•  Australia
•  Brazil
•  Chile
•  Germany
•  France
•  Greece
•  Iran
•  Ireland
•  Israel
•  Italy
•  Japan
•  Canada
•  New Zealand
•  Austria
•  Poland
•  Romania
•  Sweden
•  Slovenia
•  Spain
•  South Africa
•  Ukraine
•  Hungary
•  United States
•  United Kingdom
•  People's Republic of China

German participants

• Anke Molkenthin (women KL2)
• Edina Müller (women KL1)
• Ivo Kilian (Men F2)
• Tom Kierey (Men F3)

Results

Men

KL1 200 m sprint

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	POLE	Jakub Tokarz	51,084 PB
2	HUN	Róbert Suba	51.129
3	GBR	Ian Marsden	51.220

KL2 200 m sprint

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	OUT	Curtis McGrath	42,190 PB
2	AUT	Markus Swoboda	43.726
3	GBR	Nick Beighton	44.936

The German Ivo Kilian only reached 8th place in the final with 48.622 seconds.

KL3 200 m sprint

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	UKR	Serhii Yemelianov	39,810 PB
2	DEU	Tom Kierey	39.909
3	BRA	Caio Ribeiro de Carvalho	40.199

Women

KL1 200 m sprint

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	GBR	Jeanette Chippington	0: 58.760
2	DEU	Edina Mueller	0: 58.874
3	POLE	Kamila of Cuba	1: 00: 232

KL2 200 m sprint

space	country	sportswoman	Time (s)
1	GBR	Emma Wiggs	53,288 PB
2	UKR	Natalia Lagutenko	55,599
3	OUT	Susan Seipel	56.796

The German athlete Anke Molkenthin was eliminated in the semi-finals.

KL3 200 m sprint

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	GBR	Anne Dickins	51,348 PB
2	OUT	Amanda Reynolds	51.378
3	FRA	Cindy Moreau	52.103

Medal table

Medal table Parakanu
space	country				total
1	United Kingdom	3	-	2	5
2	Australia	1	1	1	3
3	Ukraine	1	1	-	2
4th	Poland	1	-	1	2
5	Germany	-	2	-	2
6th	Austria	-	1	-	1
	Hungary	-	1	-	1
8th	Brazil	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Historical results on Paralympic.org
• Para canoe on Rio2016.com