Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2000 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 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.

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 (FRA)	Michal Martikán (SVK)	Juraj Minčík (SVK)
Men's C-2	Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner (SVK)	Krzysztof Kołomański and Michał Staniszewski (POL)	Marek Jiras and Tomáš Máder (CZE)
Men's K-1	Thomas Schmidt (GER)	Paul Ratcliffe (GBR)	Pierpaolo Ferrazzi (ITA)
Women's K-1	Štěpánka Hilgertová (CZE)	Brigitte Guibal (FRA)	Anne-Lise Bardet (FRA)

Sprint

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	György Kolonics (HUN)	Maxim Opalev (RUS)	Andreas Dittmer (GER)
C-1 1000 metres	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	Ledis Balceiro (CUB)	Stephen Giles (CAN)
C-2 500 metres	Ferenc Novák and Imre Pulai (HUN)	Daniel Jędraszko and Paweł Baraszkiewicz (POL)	Mitică Pricop and Florin Popescu (ROU)
C-2 1000 metres	Florin Popescu and Mitică Pricop (ROU)	Ibrahim Rojas and Leobaldo Pereira (CUB)	Stefan Uteß and Lars Kober (GER)
K-1 500 metres	Knut Holmann (NOR)	Petar Merkov (BUL)	Michael Kolganov (ISR)
K-1 1000 metres	Knut Holmann (NOR)	Petar Merkov (BUL)	Tim Brabants (GBR)
K-2 500 metres	Zoltán Kammerer and Botond Storcz (HUN)	Daniel Collins and Andrew Trim (AUS)	Ronald Rauhe and Tim Wieskötter (GER)
K-2 1000 metres	Antonio Rossi and Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)	Markus Oscarsson and Henrik Nilsson (SWE)	Krisztián Bártfai and Krisztián Veréb (HUN)
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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Josefa Idem (ITA)	Caroline Brunet (CAN)	Katrin Borchert (AUS)
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 Ioniţǎ Mariana Limbău Elena Radu Sanda Toma

Medal table

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	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
17	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1

References

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