| Canoeing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |
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%2c_London_2012.png) %2c_London_2012.png) Pictograms for slalom (left) and sprint (right) | |
| Venue | Lee Valley White Water Centre (slalom) Eton Dorney (sprint) |
| Dates | 29 July – 2 August 2012 (slalom) 6–11 August 2012 (sprint) |
| Competitors | 330 |
| Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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| C-1 | men | |
| C-2 | men | |
| K-1 | men | women |
Sprint_pictogram.svg) | ||
| C-1 200m | men | |
| C-1 1000m | men | |
| C-2 1000m | men | |
| K-1 200m | men | women |
| K-1 500m | women | |
| K-1 1000m | men | |
| K-2 200m | men | |
| K-2 500m | women | |
| K-2 1000m | men | |
| K-4 500m | women | |
| K-4 1000m | men | |
Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were contested in two main disciplines:canoe slalom, from 29 July to 2 August, andcanoe sprint, from 6 to 11 August.[1] The slalom competition was held at theLee Valley White Water Centre and the sprint events were staged at Eton College Rowing Centre, atDorney Lake, known as Eton Dorney.
Around 330 athletes took part in 16 events. The men's 500m sprints were replaced by a 200m race; in addition, the men's C-2 500m was replaced by a women's K-1 200m sprint.[2] This was confirmed at anInternational Canoe Federation board meeting atWindsor, Berkshire, on 5 December 2009.[3] For the first time, women competed in two individual events in sprint canoeing. Because of the changes, the finals were spread over a three-day period instead of the traditional two days which had been in effect since the1976 Games.[4]The most successful nation in the slalom wasFrance, with two gold medals in the four events, followed byGreat Britain with one gold and one silver. In the sprint,Hungary was the most successful with three gold, two silver and one bronze medal, whileGermany topped the medal table overall, with three gold, two silver and three bronze medals.
A new qualification system was created for both slalom and sprint canoeing at the 2012 Games. The quotas were set for each event by theInternational Canoe Federation in July 2010.
| H | Heats | ½ | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | Sun 29 | Mon 30 | Tue 31 | Wed 1 | Thu 2 | |||
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| Men's C-1 | H | ½ | F | |||||
| Men's C-2 | H | ½ | F | |||||
| Men's K-1 | H | ½ | F | |||||
| Women's K-1 | H | ½ | F | |||||
| Event↓/Date → | Mon 6 | Tue 7 | Wed 8 | Thu 9 | Fri 10 | Sat 11 | |||
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| Men's C-1 200 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's C-1 1000 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's C-2 1000 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's K-1 200 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's K-1 1000 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's K-2 200 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's K-2 1000 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Men's K-4 1000 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Women's K-1 200 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Women's K-1 500 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Women's K-2 500 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
| Women's K-4 500 m | H | ½ | F | ||||||
Men
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| C-1 200 m details | Yuriy Cheban Ukraine | Ivan Shtyl Russia[a] | Alfonso Benavides Spain |
| C-1 1000 m details | Sebastian Brendel Germany | David Cal Spain | Mark Oldershaw Canada |
| C-2 1000 m details | Peter Kretschmer andKurt Kuschela (GER) |  Aliaksandr BahdanovichandAndrei Bahdanovich (BLR) | Alexey Korovashkov andIlya Pervukhin (RUS) |
| K-1 200 m details | Ed McKeever Great Britain | Saúl Craviotto Spain | Mark de Jonge Canada |
| K-1 1000 m details | Eirik Verås Larsen Norway | Adam van Koeverden Canada | Max Hoff Germany |
| K-2 200 m details | Alexander Dyachenko andYury Postrigay (RUS) | Raman Piatrushenka andVadzim Makhneu (BLR) | Liam Heath andJon Schofield (GBR) |
| K-2 1000 m details |  Rudolf DombiandRoland Kökény (HUN) |  Fernando PimentaandEmanuel Silva (POR) | Andreas Ihle andMartin Hollstein (GER) |
| K-4 1000 m details |  Australia (AUS)Tate Smith Dave Smith Murray Stewart Jacob Clear | Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Kammerer Dávid Tóth Tamás Kulifai Dániel Pauman |  Czech Republic (CZE)Daniel Havel Lukáš Trefil Josef Dostál Jan Štěrba |
Gallery of some of the gold medalists in the canoeing events:
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Germany | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | Hungary | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 |  France | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Russia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 |  Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Spain | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | Belarus | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Czech Republic | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 |  Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 |  Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 South Africa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 19 |  Lithuania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals (19 entries) | 16 | 16 | 16 | 48 | |
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