Canoeing at the Summer Olympics


Canoeing has been featured as competition sports in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1936 Games in Berlin, and they were also demonstration sports at the 1924 Games in Paris. There are two current disciplines of canoeing in Olympic competition: slalom and sprint.
Two styles of boats are used in this sport: canoes with 1 or 2 canoers and kayaks with 1, 2 or 4 kayakers. This leads to the name designation of each event. For example, "C-1" is a canoe singles event and "K-2" is a kayak doubles event. '"KX-1" denotes kayak cross. Races are usually 500 metres or 1000 metres long, although there were also 10 km events from 1936 to 1956. On 13 August 2009, it was announced by the International Canoe Federation that the men's 500 m events would be replaced at the 2012 Summer Olympics by 200 m events with one of them being K-1 200 m for the women. The other events for men at 200 m will be C-1, K-1, and K-2. This was confirmed at their 2009 Board of Directors meeting in Windsor, Berkshire, Great Britain on 5 December 2009. Kayak cross was introduced in the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Summary

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Canoeing was demonstration sport
Canoeing events not held
Olympic Games not held

Canoe sprint

Men's

Event364852566064687276808488929600040812162024Total
C-1 1000 m•••••••••••••••••••••21
C-2 500 m••••••••••10
K-1 1000 m•••••••••••••••••••••21
K-2 500 m••••••••••10
K-4 500 m••2

Event364852566064687276808488929600040812162024Total
C-1 200 m••2
C-1 500 m•••••••••9
C-2 1000 m••••••••••••••••••••20
K-1 200 m•••3
K-1 500 m•••••••••9
K-1 4 × 500 m•1
K-2 200 m••2
K-2 1000 m••••••••••••••••••••20
K-4 1000 m••••••••••••••14
Total4555777711111212121212121212121210

Women's

Event364852566064687276808488929600040812162024Total
C-1 200 m••2
C-2 500 m••2
K-1 500 m••••••••••••••••••••20
K-2 500 m•••••••••••••••••17
K-4 500 m•••••••••••11
K-1 200 m•••3

Medal table

Source:
''Last updated after the 2024 Paris Olympics. Note that this table includes both canoe sprint and canoe marathon medals.''

Canoe slalom

Medal table

Source:
''Last updated after the 2024 Summer Olympics''

Canoe marathon

Men's races of 10,000 metres were held from 1936 to 1956 and were considered canoe marathons, separate from the sprint and slalom disciplines.

Men's

Event364852566064687276808488929600040812162024Total
C-1 10000 m•••3
C-2 10000 m••••4
K-1 10000 m••••4
K-2 10000 m••••4
Folding K-1 10000 m•1
Folding K-2 10000 m•1
Total544400000000000000000

Overall medal table

''Updated after 2024''