Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Pictograms for slalom (left) and sprint canoeing (right)
Venue	Hellinikon Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre (slalom) Schinias Rowing and Canoeing Centre (sprint)
Dates	17 - 28 August 2004

Canoeing at the 2004 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

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre for the sprint events and the Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre at the Helliniko Olympic Complex for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines. A total of 16 events were contested, 12 sprint events (9 for men and 3 for women) and 4 slalom events (3 for men and 1 for women).

Medal summary

Slalom

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C-1	Tony Estanguet  France	Michal Martikán  Slovakia	Stefan Pfannmöller  Germany
Men's C-2	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner  Slovakia	Marcus Becker and Stefan Henze  Germany	Jaroslav Volf and Ondřej Štěpánek  Czech Republic
Men's K-1	Benoît Peschier  France	Campbell Walsh  Great Britain	Fabien Lefèvre  France
Women's K-1	Elena Kaliská  Slovakia	Rebecca Giddens  United States	Helen Reeves  Great Britain

Sprint

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Andreas Dittmer  Germany	David Cal  Spain	Maxim Opalev  Russia
C-1 1000 metres	David Cal  Spain	Andreas Dittmer  Germany	Attila Vajda  Hungary
C-2 500 metres	Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun  China	Ibrahim Rojas and Ledis Balceiro  Cuba	Alexander Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov  Russia
C-2 1000 metres	Christian Gille and Tomasz Wylenzek  Germany	Aleksandr Kostoglod and Aleksandr Kovalyov  Russia	György Kozmann and György Kolonics  Hungary
K-1 500 metres	Adam van Koeverden  Canada	Nathan Baggaley  Australia	Ian Wynne  Great Britain
K-1 1000 metres	Eirik Verås Larsen  Norway	Ben Fouhy  New Zealand	Adam van Koeverden  Canada
K-2 500 metres	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter  Germany	Clint Robinson and Nathan Baggaley  Australia	Raman Piatrushenka and Vadzim Makhneu  Belarus
K-2 1000 metres	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson  Sweden	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi  Italy	Eirik Verås Larsen and Nils Olav Fjeldheim  Norway
K-4 1000 metres	Hungary (HUN) Zoltán Kammerer Botond Storcz Ákos Vereckei Gábor Horváth	Germany (GER) Andreas Ihle Mark Zabel Björn Bach Stefan Ulm	Slovakia (SVK) Richard Riszdorfer Michal Riszdorfer Erik Vlček Juraj Bača

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Natasa Janics  Hungary	Josefa Idem Guerrini  Italy	Caroline Brunet  Canada
K-2 500 metres	Katalin Kovács and Natasa Janics  Hungary	Birgit Fischer and Carolin Leonhardt  Germany	Aneta Pastuszka and Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza  Poland
K-4 500 metres	Germany (GER) Birgit Fischer Maike Nollen Katrin Wagner Carolin Leonhardt	Hungary (HUN) Katalin Kovács Szilvia Szabó Erzsébet Viski Kinga Bóta	Ukraine (UKR) Inna Osypenko Tetyana Semykina Hanna Balabanova Olena Cherevatova

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	4	4	1	9
2	Hungary (HUN)	3	1	2	6
3	Slovakia (SVK)	2	1	1	4
4	France (FRA)	2	0	1	3
5	Spain (ESP)	1	1	0	2
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	2	3
7	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
8	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
10	Australia (AUS)	0	2	0	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	2	0	2
12	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
14	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
17	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2. pp. 284–92.