Canoeing at the 2006 Asian Games

Canoe and kayak were held at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 10 to December 13. Men's and women's competitions were held in kayak and men's competition in canoe with all events having taken place at the West Bay Lagoon. The competition included only sprint events.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 m	Yang Wenjun  China	Zhomart Satubaldin  Kazakhstan	Vadim Menkov  Uzbekistan
C-1 1000 m	Vadim Menkov  Uzbekistan	Yevgeniy Bezhnar  Kazakhstan	Taito Ambo  Japan
C-2 500 m	Kazakhstan Alexandr Dyadchuk Kaisar Nurmaganbetov	China Wang Bing Yang Wenjun	Uzbekistan Rustam Mirzadiyarov Maksim Kiryanov
C-2 1000 m	China Ma Xiaojie Huang Shaokun	Uzbekistan Gerasim Kochnev Serik Mirbekov	Japan Taito Ambo Kosuke Fujii
K-1 500 m	Liu Haitao  China	Sergey Borzov  Uzbekistan	Alexandr Yemelyanov  Kazakhstan
K-1 1000 m	Liu Haitao  China	Aleksey Babadjanov  Uzbekistan	Moon Chul-wook  South Korea
K-2 500 m	Kazakhstan Dmitriy Torlopov Dmitriy Kaltenberger	Uzbekistan Sergey Borzov Aleksey Babadjanov	China Li Zhen Zhou Peng
K-2 1000 m	China Li Zhen Lin Miao	Iran Abbas Sayyadi Reza Raeisi	Kazakhstan Yevgeniy Alexeyev Alexey Podoinikov

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 m	Yulia Borzova  Uzbekistan	Zhong Hongyan  China	Natalya Sergeyeva  Kazakhstan
K-2 500 m	China Zhu Minyuan Yu Lamei	Japan Shinobu Kitamoto Mikiko Takeya	South Korea Lee Sun-ja Lee Ae-yeon

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	6	2	1	9
2	Uzbekistan	2	4	2	8
3	Kazakhstan	2	2	3	7
4	Japan	0	1	2	3
5	Iran	0	1	0	1
6	South Korea	0	0	2	2
Total		10	10	10	30

Participating nations

A total of 103 athletes from 17 nations competed in canoeing at the 2006 Asian Games:

• China (11)
• Hong Kong (2)
• India (6)
• Indonesia (6)
• Iran (9)
• Iraq (1)
• Japan (8)
• Kazakhstan (12)
• Kyrgyzstan (6)
• Macau (4)
• Mongolia (2)
• Philippines (4)
• Qatar (2)
• South Korea (10)
• Tajikistan (2)
• Uzbekistan (9)
• Vietnam (9)

References

• Official Website

External links

• Asian Canoe Confederation