Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held at the Sydney International Regatta Centre for the sprint events and the Whitewater Stadium in Penrith for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines. The repechage rounds that ran from the 1960 to the 1996 Games were eliminated in the sprint events while qualifying rounds were added to the slalom events. Additionally, a quota system for each event was enacted, meaning each event had a limited number of competitors that could compete.

Canoeing at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Penrith Whitewater Stadium (slalom) Sydney International Regatta Centre (sprint)
No. of events	16

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

By event

Slalom

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1	Tony Estanguet  France	Michal Martikán  Slovakia	Juraj Minčík  Slovakia
C-2	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner  Slovakia	Krzysztof Kołomański and Michał Staniszewski  Poland	Marek Jiras and Tomáš Máder  Czech Republic
K-1	Thomas Schmidt  Germany	Paul Ratcliffe  Great Britain	Pierpaolo Ferrazzi  Italy

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1	Štěpánka Hilgertová  Czech Republic	Brigitte Guibal  France	Anne-Lise Bardet  France

Sprint

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	György Kolonics  Hungary	Maxim Opalev  Russia	Andreas Dittmer  Germany
C-1 1000 metres	Andreas Dittmer  Germany	Ledis Balceiro  Cuba	Stephen Giles  Canada
C-2 500 metres	Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai  Hungary	Daniel Jędraszko and Paweł Baraszkiewicz  Poland	Mitică Pricop and Florin Popescu  Romania
C-2 1000 metres	Florin Popescu and Mitică Pricop  Romania	Ibrahim Rojas and Leobaldo Pereira  Cuba	Stefan Uteß and Lars Kober  Germany
K-1 500 metres	Knut Holmann  Norway	Petar Merkov  Bulgaria	Michael Kolganov  Israel
K-1 1000 metres	Knut Holmann  Norway	Petar Merkov  Bulgaria	Tim Brabants  Great Britain
K-2 500 metres	Zoltán Kammerer and Botond Storcz  Hungary	Daniel Collins and Andrew Trim  Australia	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter  Germany
K-2 1000 metres	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi  Italy	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson  Sweden	Krisztián Bártfai and Krisztián Veréb  Hungary
K-4 1000 metres	Hungary (HUN) Ákos Vereckei Gábor Horváth Zoltán Kammerer Botond Storcz	Germany (GER) Jan Schäfer Mark Zabel Björn Bach Stefan Ulm	Poland (POL) Grzegorz Kotowicz Adam Seroczyński Dariusz Białkowski Marek Witkowski

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Josefa Idem  Italy	Caroline Brunet  Canada	Katrin Borchert  Australia
K-2 500 metres	Birgit Fischer and Katrin Wagner (GER)	Katalin Kovács and Szilvia Szabó (HUN)	Beata Sokołowska and Aneta Pastuszka (POL)
K-4 500 metres	Germany (GER) Birgit Fischer Manuela Mucke Anett Schuck Katrin Wagner	Hungary (HUN) Rita Kőbán Katalin Kovács Szilvia Szabó Erzsébet Viski	Romania (ROU) Raluca Ioniță Mariana Limbău Elena Radu Sanda Toma

By nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	4	2	1	7
2	Germany (GER)	4	1	3	8
3	Italy (ITA)	2	0	1	3
4	Norway (NOR)	2	0	0	2
5	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	1	3
7	Romania (ROU)	1	0	2	3
8	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	1	2
9	Poland (POL)	0	2	2	4
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	0	2
	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	0	2
12	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
15	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
17	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		16	16	16	48

References

• 2000 Summer Olympics Canoe slalom results. (in English and French)
• 2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results. (in English and French)