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Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1	men
C-2	men
K-1	men	women
Sprint
C-1 500 m	men
C-1 1000 m	men
C-2 500 m	men
C-2 1000 m	men
K-1 500 m	men	women
K-1 1000 m	men
K-2 500 m	men	women
K-2 1000 m	men
K-4 500 m		women
K-4 1000 m	men
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The canoeing competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics was composed of 16 events (12 for men and 4 for women) in two disciplines, slalom and sprint. Timing in 1/1000ths of a second began at these games for the sprint events.

Medal summary

Slalom

Slalom events took place at Ocoee Whitewater Center near Ducktown, Tennessee.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1 details	Michal Martikán  Slovakia	Lukáš Pollert  Czech Republic	Patrice Estanguet  France
Men's C-2 details	Frank Adisson and Wilfrid Forgues  France	Jiří Rohan and Miroslav Šimek  Czech Republic	André Ehrenberg and Michael Senft  Germany
Men's K-1 details	Oliver Fix  Germany	Andraž Vehovar  Slovenia	Thomas Becker  Germany
Women's K-1 details	Štěpánka Hilgertová  Czech Republic	Dana Chladek  United States	Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi  France

Sprint

2010 picture of the finish tower at Lake Lanier where the canoe sprint and rowing competitions for the 1996 Summer Olympics took place.

Sprint events were held at Lake Lanier, Georgia.

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres details	Martin Doktor  Czech Republic	Slavomír Kňazovický  Slovakia	Imre Pulai  Hungary
C-1 1000 metres details	Martin Doktor  Czech Republic	Ivans Klementjevs  Latvia	György Zala  Hungary
C-2 500 metres details	György Kolonics and Csaba Horváth  Hungary	Viktor Reneysky and Nicolae Juravschi  Moldova	Gheorghe Andriev and Grigore Obreja  Romania
C-2 1000 metres details	Andreas Dittmer and Gunar Kirchbach  Germany	Marcel Glavan and Antonel Borsan  Romania	Csaba Horváth and György Kolonics  Hungary
K-1 500 metres details	Antonio Rossi  Italy	Knut Holmann  Norway	Piotr Markiewicz  Poland
K-1 1000 metres details	Knut Holmann  Norway	Beniamino Bonomi  Italy	Clint Robinson  Australia
K-2 500 metres details	Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche  Germany	Beniamino Bonomi and Daniele Scarpa  Italy	Daniel Collins and Andrew Trim  Australia
K-2 1000 metres details	Antonio Rossi and Daniele Scarpa  Italy	Kay Bluhm and Torsten Gutsche  Germany	Andrian Dushev and Milko Kazanov  Bulgaria
K-4 1000 metres details	Germany (GER) Thomas Reineck Olaf Winter Detlef Hofmann Mark Zabel	Hungary (HUN) András Rajna Gábor Horváth Ferenc Csipes Attila Adrovicz	Russia (RUS) Oleg Gorobiy Sergey Verlin Georgiy Tsybulnikov Anatoli Tishchenko

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres details	Rita Kőbán  Hungary	Caroline Brunet  Canada	Josefa Idem  Italy
K-2 500 metres details	Agneta Andersson and Susanne Gunnarsson  Sweden	Birgit Fischer and Ramona Portwich  Germany	Anna Wood and Katrin Borchert  Australia
K-4 500 metres details	Germany (GER) Anett Schuck Birgit Fischer Manuela Mucke Ramona Portwich	Switzerland (SUI) Gabi Müller Ingrid Haralamow Sabine Eichenberger Daniela Baumer	Sweden (SWE) Susanne Rosenqvist Anna Olsson Ingela Ericsson Agneta Andersson

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	2	2	9
2	Czech Republic (CZE)	3	2	0	5
3	Italy (ITA)	2	2	1	5
4	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	3	6
5	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	0	2
7	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
8	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
9	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
10	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
16	Australia (AUS)	0	0	3	3
17	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1

References

• 
  1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. pp. 162–74. (in English) & (in French)
  


• 
  "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.