The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Kayaking - Sprint K-2 1000 Meters

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SWEDEN - 7 Medals

GERMANY - 7 Medals

HUNGARY - 7 Medals

Medal Table
Sprint K-2 1000 Meters
Slalom C-1 Slalom C-2
Slalom K-1 Sprint C-1 200 Meters Sprint C-1 1000 Meters
Sprint C-2 1000 Meters Sprint K-1 200 Meters Sprint C-2 500 Meters
Sprint K-1 1000 Meters
Sprint K-4 1000 Meters
Sprint K-1 500 Meters
Sprint K-2 500 Meters Sprint K-4 500 Meters Discontinued Events
Kayak Cross


Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1936
Austria - (Adolf Kainz, Alfons Dorfner)
Germany - (Ewald Tilker, Fritz Bondroit)
Netherlands - (Nicolaas Tates, Wim van der Kroft)
1948
Sweden - (Hans Berglund, Lennart Klingstrom)
Denmark - (Ejvind Hansen, Jakob Jensen)
Finland - (Thor Axelsson, Nils Bjorklof)
1952
Finland - (Kurt Wires, Yrjo Hietanen)
Sweden - (Lars Glasser, Ingemar Hedberg)
Austria - (Maximilian Raub, Herbert Wiedermann)
1956
United Team of Germany - (Michael Scheuer, Meinrad Miltenberger)
Soviet Union - (Mikhail Kaaleste, Anatoli Demitkov)
Austria - (Maximilian Raub, Herbert Wiedermann)
1960
Sweden - (Gert Fredriksson, Sven-Olov Sjodelius)
Hungary - (Gyorgy Meszaros, Andres Szente)
Poland - (Stefan Keplaniak, Wladyslaw Zielinski)
1964
Sweden - (Gunnar Utterberg, Sven-Olov Sjodelius) Netherlands - (Antonius Geurts, Paul Hoesktra)
United Team of Germany - (Heinz Buker, Holger Zander)
1968
Soviet Union - (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Voldodymyr Morozov)
Hungary - (Csaba Giczi, Istvan Timar)
Austria - (Gerhard Siebold, Gunther Pfaff)
1972
Soviet Union - (Nikolai Gorbachev, Viktor Kratasyuk)
Hungary - (Jozsef Deme, Janos Ratkai)
Poland - (Wladyslaw Szuzkiewicz, Rafal Piszcz)
1976
Soviet Union - (Serhei Nahorny, Vladimir Romanovsky)
East Germany - (Joachim Mattern, Bernd Olbricht)
Hungary - (Zoltan Bako, Istvan Szabo)
1980
Soviet Union - (Vladimir Parfanovich, Sergei Chukhray)
Hungary - (Istvan Szabo, Istvan Joos)
Spain - (Luis Gregorio Ramos, Herminio Menendez)
1984
Canada - (Hugh Fisher, Alwyn Morris)
France - (Bernard Bregeon, Patrick Lefoulon)
Australia - (Barry Kelly, Grant Kenny)
1988
United States - (Greg Barton, Norman Bellingham)
New Zealand - (Ian Ferguson, Paul MacDonald)
Australia - (Peter Foster, Kelvin Graham)
1992
Germany - (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche)
Sweden - (Gunnar Olsson, Kalle Sundqvist)
Poland - (Grzegorz Kotowicz, Dariusz Bialkowski)
1996
Italy - (Antonio Rossi, Daniele Scarpa)
Germany - (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche) Bulgaria - (Andrian Dushev, Miko Kazanov)
2000
Italy - (Antonio Rossi, Beniamino Bonomi)
Sweden - (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson)
Hungary - (Krisztian Bartfai, Krisztian Vereb)
2004
Sweden - (Markus Oscarsson, Henrik Nilsson) Italy - (Antonio Rossi, Beniamino Bonomi) Norway - (Eirik Veras Larsen, Nils Olav Fjeldheim)
2008
Germany - (Andreas Ihle, Martin Hollstein)
Denmark - (Kim Wraae Knudsen, Rene Holten Poulsen)
Italy - (Andrea Facchin, Antonio Scaduto)
2012
Hungary - (Rudolf Dombi, Roland Kokeny)
Portugal - (Fernando Pimenta, Emanuel Silva)
Germany - (Martin Hollstein, Andreas Ihle)
2016
Germany - (Max Rendschmidt, Marcus Gross)
Serbia - (Marko Tomićević, Milenko Zorić)
Australia - (Ken Wallace, Lachlan Tame)
2020
Australia - (Jean van der Westhuyzen, Thomas Green) Germany - (Max Hoff, Jacob Schopf) Czech Republic - (Josef Dostįl, Radek Šlouf)

Medal Total
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Sweden
4
3
0
7
2
Germany 3
3
1
7
3
Hungary
1
4
2
7
4
Soviet Union
4
1
0
5
5
Italy
2
1
1
4
6
Austria
1
0
3
4
7
Australia 1
0
3
4
8
Poland
0
0
3
3
9
Finland
1
0
1
2
10
United Team of Germany 1
0
1
2
11
Denmark
0
2
0
2
12
Netherlands
0
1
1
2
13
Canada
1
0
0
1
14
United States
1
0
0
1
15
France
0
1
0
1
16
New Zealand
0
1
0
1
17
Portugal
0
1
0
1
18
Serbia
0
1
0
1
19
East Germany
0
1
0
1
20
Spain
0
0
1
1
21
Bulgaria
0
0
1
1
22
Norway
0
0
1
1
23
Czech Republic
0
0
1
1