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Key facts

Venue: Eton Dorney
Dates: Monday 6 –  Saturday 11 August
Medal events: 12
Athletes: 248

The histories of the canoe and the kayak go back hundreds of years, but it wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century that the first official canoe and kayak races were held. The sport now takes two forms, the oldest of which is the power-packed, fiercely competitive Canoe Sprint discipline.

The basics

Canoe Sprint events are head-to-head races conducted on still water, as opposed to the white water time trials of the Canoe Slalom competition. Athletes race over distances of 200m, 500m or 1,000m, either solo, in pairs or in teams of four.  Athletes use a single-bladed paddle from a kneeling position in canoes, which are steered by the athlete making corrective strokes with their paddle. In kayaks, which are steered using a small rudder, the competitors sit in the boat and use a paddle with two blades.

Olympic Canoe Sprint, past and present

Canoeing first featured as a demonstration sport at the 1924 Paris Games. It became a full Olympic sport in 1936, when races were held over of 1,000m and 10,000m. Since then, the Olympic events have grown shorter: the last long-distance events were held at the Melbourne Games of 1956.

For London 2012, the Canoe Sprint competition will be held at Eton Dorney, one of the best still-water courses in the world with a wonderful location close to Windsor Castle. Races will be held over distances of 1,000m, 500m and, for the first time at the Games, 200m: with the fastest races taking just 30 seconds to complete, it’s bound to be very popular with spectators and athletes alike.

Jargon buster

Bow: The front of the craft.
Stern: The rear of the craft.
Paddler: A canoeist.
Start gate: The yellow metal ‘boot’ in which the bow of the boat sits before the start of a race.
Stroke rate: The number of paddle strokes per minute.
Wing paddle: A paddle with a curved, almost spoon-shaped blade.

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IMPORTANT NOTE - These are the athletes that nominated for London 2012 or earned the right to be nominated.

ANG	Fortunato Pacavira (C2 1000), Nelson Henriques (C2 1000)
ARG	Miguel Correa (K1 200 and K2 200), Rubén Rézola (K2 200)
AZE	Maksim Prokopenko (C2 1000), Valentin Demyanenko (C1 200), Sergey Bezugliy (C2 1000)
AUS	Alana Nicholls (WK1 200 and 500), Alexander Haas (C2 1000), David Smith (K4 1000), Hannah Davis (WK4 500), Jacob Clear (K4 1000), Jake Donaghey (C1 1000, C2 1000), Jesse Phillips (K2 200), Jo Brigden-Jones (WK4 500), Ken Wallace (K2 1000), Lyndsie Fogarty (WK2 and K4 500), Murray Stewart (K1, K2 & K4 1000, K1 200), Naomi Flood (WK2 500), Rachel Lovell (WK4 500), Sebastian Marczak (C1 200), Stephen Bird (K2 200), Tate Smith (K4 1000)
AUT	Viktoria Schwarz (WK2 500), Yvonne Schuring (WK2 500)
BLR	Aleh Yurenia (K1 1000), Aliaksandr Bahdanovich (C2 1000), Aliaksandr Zhukovski (C1 1000), Andrei Bahdanovich (C2 1000), Dmitri Voitishkin (C1 200), Irina Pomelova (WK4 500), Marina Poltoran (WK4 500), Nadezhda Popok (WK4 500), Olga Khudenko (WK4 500), Raman Piatrushenka (K2 200), Vadzim Makhneu (K2 200)
BEL	Laurens Pannecoucke (K2 1000), Maxime Richard (K1 200), Olivier Cauwenbergh (K2 1000)
BRA	Erlon de Souza Silva (C2 1000), Matias de Oliveira Ronilson (C2 1000)
BUL	Miroslav Kirchev (K1 1000)
CAN	Adam van Koeverden (K1 1000), Hugues Fournel (K2 200), Emilie Fournel (WK1 200 and WK1 500), Jason McCoombs (C1 200), Mark de Jonge (K1 200), Mark Oldershaw (C1 1000), Ryan Coachrane (K2 200)
CHN	Huang Maoxing (C2 1000), Huang Zhipeng (K4 1000), Li Qiang (C2 1000), Li Zhangli (WK4 500), Liu Haiping (WK4 500), Ren Wenjun (WK4 500), Shen Jie (K4 1000), Wu Yanan (WK2 500), Yu Lamei (WK4 500), Zhang Hongpeng (C1 1000), Zhou Peng (K1 200 and K4 1000), Zhou Yu (WK1 500 and WK2 500), Zhou Yubo (K4 1000)
CUB	Darisleidys Amador (K1W 200 and K1W 500), Dayexis Gandarela (K2W 500), Jorge Garcia (K1 1000), Jose Carlos Bulnes (C2 1000), Sergey Torres (C2 1000), Yulitza Meneses (K2W 500)
CZE	Daniel Havel (K4 1000), Filip Dvořák (C2 1000), Jan Štěrba (K4 1000), Jaroslav Radoň (C2 1000), Josef Dostál (K4 1000), Lukáš Trefil (K4 1000)
DEN	Emil Stær Simensen (K2 1000 and K4 1000), Henriette Engel Hansen (WK1 500), Kasper Bleibach (K1 200 and K4 1000), Kim Wraae Knudsen (K2 1000 and K4 1000), René Holten Poulsen (K1 1000 and K4 1000)
ECU	César de Cesare (K1 200)
EGY	Mustafa Mansour (K1 200 and K1 1000)
FIN	Anne Rikala (WK1 500m), Jenni Mikkonen (WK1 200m)
FRA	Arnaud Hybois (K2 200), Cyrille Carre (K1 1000), Gabrielle Tuleu (WK4 500), Joanne Mayer (WK4 500), Marie Delattre (WK4 500), Mathieu Goubel (C1 200 and C1 1000), Maxime Beaumont (K1 200), Sarah Guyot (WK4 500), Sébastien Jouve (K2 200)
GER	Andreas Ihle (K2 1000), Carolin Leonhardt (WK4 500), Franziska Weber (WK2 500 and WK4 500), Jonas Ems (K2 200), Katrin Wagner-Augustin (WK4 500), Kurt Kuschela (C2 1000), Marcus Groß (K4 1000), Martin Hollstein (K2 1000), Max Hoff (K1 1000 and K4 1000), Norman Bröckl (K4 1000), Peter Kretschmer (C2 1000), Ronald Rauhe (K1 200 and K2 200), Sebastian Brendel (C1 1000), Silke Hörmann (WK4 500), Tim Wieskötter (K4 1000), Tina Dietze (WK2 500 and WK4 500)
GBR	Abigail Edmonds (WK2 500), Angela Hannah (WK4 500), Edward McKeever (K1 200), Jessica Walker (WK1 200 and WK4 500), Jonathan Schofield (K2 200), Liam Heath (K2 200), Louisa Sawers (WK2 500 and WK4 500), Rachel Cawthorn (WK1 500 and WK4 500), Richard Jefferies (C1 200 and 1000), Tim Brabants (K1 1000)
HUN	Attila Vajda (C1 1000), Dániel Pauman (K4 1000), Gabriella Szabó (K4 500), Danuta Kozak (WK1 500 and K4 500), Dávid Tóth (K4 1000), Katalin Kovács (K2 500 and K4 500), Krisztina Fazekas (K4 500), Natasa Douchev-Janics (K1 200 and K2 500), Roland Kökény (K2 1000), Rudolf Dombi (K2 1000), Tamás Kulifai (K4 1000), Zoltán Kammerer (K4 1000)
IRI	Ahmad Reza Talebian (K1 1000), Arezou Hakimi (WK1 200)
IRL	Andrzej Jezierski (C1 200)
ITA	Josefa Idem (K1W 500), Maximilian Benassi (K1 1000), Norma Murabito (K1W 200)
JAP	Asumi Omura (WK1 500 and WK2 500), Hiroki Watanabe (K2 200), Momotaro Matsushita (K2 200), Naoya Sakamoto (C1 200), Shinobu Kitamoto (WK1 200 and WK2 500)
KAZ	Alexey Dergunov (K2 1000), Alexandr Dyadchuk (C1 200), Natalya Sergeyeva (WK1 500), Yevgeniy Alekseyev (K2 1000)
LAT	Aleksejs Rumjancevs (K2 200), Krists Straume (K2 200)
LTU	Egidijus Balciunas (K1 200), Jevgenijus Šuklinas (C1 200)
MEX	Jose Everardo Cristobal Quirino (C1 1000)
NOR	Erik Larsen (K1 1000), Mira Larsen (K1 500)
NZL	Ben Fouhy (K1 1000), Darryl Fitzgerald (K2 1000), Erin Taylor (WK2 500), Lisa Carrington (WK1 200 and WK2 500), Steven Ferguson (K2 1000), Teneale Hatton (WK1 500)
POL	Aneta Konieczna (WK1 500 and WK4 500), Beata Mikołajczyk (WK2 500 and WK4 500), Karolina Naja (WK2 500 and WK4 500), Marcin Grzybowski (C2 1000), Marta Walczykiewicz (WK1 200 and WK4 500), Piotr Kuleta (C1 200), Piotr Siemionowski (K1 200), Tomasz Kaczor (C2 1000)
POR	Beatriz Gomes (WK4 500), Emanuel Silva (K2 1000), Fernando Pimenta (K1 1000 and K2 1000), Helena Rodrigues (WK4 500), Joana Vasconcelos (WK4 500), Teresa Portela (WK1 200, WK1 500 and WK4 500)
RSA	Bridgitte Hartley (K1W 500), Calvin Mokoto (C1 1000), Tiffany Kruger (K1W 200)
ROU	Alexandru Dumitrescu (C2 1000), Bogdan Mada (K2 200), Ionel Gavrilă (K4 1000), Ionut Mitrea (K2 200), Irina Lauric (WK2 500), Iuliana Paleu (WK2 500), Josef Chirila (C1 1000), Ştefan Vasile (K4 1000), Toni Ioneticu (K4 1000), Traian Neagu (K4 1000), Victor Mihalachi (C2 1000)
RUS	Aleksey Korovashkov (C2 1000), Alexander Dyachenko (K2 200), Anton Ryahov (K2 1000 and K4 1000), Anton Vasilev (K4 1000), Evgeniy Salakhov (K1 200), Iliya Medvedev (K2 1000 and K4 1000), Iliya Pervuhin (C2 1000), Iliya Shtokalov (C1 1000), Ivan Shtil (C1 200), Natalya Lobova (K1W 200, K2 500W and K4W 500), Oleg Zhestkov (K4 1000), Pavel Nikolaev (K1 1000), Vera Sobetova (K2W 500 and K4W 500), Yulia Kachalova (K4W 500), Yuliana Salakhova (K1W 500 and K4W 500), Yury Postrygay (K2 200)
SEN	Ndiatte Gueye (C1 200 and C1 1000)
SIN	Geraldine Lee Wei Ling (WK1 200 and WK1 500)
SRB	Aleksandar Aleksić (K4 1000), Antonija Nađ (WK4 500), Antonija Panda (WK4 500), Dejan Terzić (K4 1000), Ervin Holpert (K4 1000), Marko Novaković (K1 200), Marko Tomićević (K1 1000), Marta Tibor (WK4 500), Milenko Zorić (K4 1000), Nikolina Moldovan (WK1 200 and WK2 500), Olivera Moldovan (WK2 500), Renata Kubik (WK4 500)
SLO	Špela Ponomarenko Janić (WK1 200 and 500)
ESP	Alfonso Benavides (C1 200), David Cal (C1 1000), Francisco Cubelos (K1 1000), María Teresa Portela (WK1 200), Saúl Craviotto (K1 200)
SVK	Erik Vlček (K2 & K4 1000), Ivana Kmetova (WK2 500), Lubomir Hagara (C1 200), Martina Kohlova (WK2 500), Peter Gelle (K2 1000)
SWE	Anders Gustafsson (K1 1000), Henrik Nilsson (K2 1000), Josefin Nordlow (K2 500), Karin Johansson (K2 500), Markus Oscarsson (K2 1000), Sofia Paldanius (WK1 200)
TUN	Mohamed Ali Mrabet (K1 1000), Affef Ben Ismail (WK1 500), Khaled Bargoui (C1 Men)
UKR	Inna Osipenko-Radomskaya (K1W 200 and K1W 500), Yuri Cheban (C1 200)
USA	Carrie Johnson (WK1 500), Tim Hornsby (K1 200)
UZB	Vadim Menkov (C1 1000), Yuliya Borzova (WK1 500)
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