The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Kayaking -
Sprint K-2 500 Meters

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

HUNGARY - 15 Medals

GERMANY - 12 Medals

  SOVIET UNION - 8 Medals

Medal Table
Sprint K-2 500 Meters
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 K-1 1000 Meters
Sprint C-2 500 Meters
Sprint K-2 1000 Meters
Sprint K-4 1000 Meters
Sprint K-1 500 Meters
Slalom C-1 Sprint K-4 500 Meters Discontinued Events
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Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1976
East Germany - (Joachim Mattern, Bernd Olbricht)
Soviet Union - (Serhei Nahorny, Vladimir Romanovsky)
Romania - (Larion Serghei, Policarp Malihin)
1980
Soviet Union - (Vladimir Parfenovich, Sergei Chukhray)
Spain - (Herminio Menendez, Guillermo del Riego)
East Germany - (Rudiger Helm, Bern Olbricht)
1984
New Zealand - (Ian Ferguson, Paul MacDonald)
Sweden - (Per-Inge Bengtsson, Lars-Erik Moberg)
Canada - (Hugh Fisher, Alwyn Morris)
1988
New Zealand - (Ian Ferguson, Paul MacDonald) Soviet Union - (Igor Nagayev, Viktor Denisov)
Hungary - (Attila Abraham, Ferenc Csipes)
1992
Germany - (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche)
Poland - (Maciej Freimut, Wojciech Kurpiewski)
Italy - (Bruno Dreossi, Antonio Rossi)
1996
Germany - (Kay Bluhm, Torsten Gutsche) Italy - (Beniamino Bonomi, Daniele Scarpa)
Australia - (Daniel Collins, Andrew Trim)
2000
Hungary - (Zoltan Kammerer, Botond Storcz)
Australia - (Daniel Collins, Andrew Trim)
Germany - (Ronald Rauhe, Tim Wieskotter)
2004
Germany - (Ronald Rauhe, Tim Wieskotter) Australia - (Clint Robinson, Nathan Baggaley)
Belarus - (Raman Piatrushenka, Vadzim Makhneu)
2008
Spain - (Saul Craviotto, Carlos Perez)
Germany - (Ronald Rauhe, Tim Wieskotter) Belarus - (Raman Piatrushenka, Vadzim Makhneu)
2024
Germany - (Jacob Schopf, Max Lemke)
Hungary - (Bence Nádas, Sándor Tótka)
Australia - (Jean van der Westhuyzen, Thomas Green)


Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2024 Paris Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1960
Soviet Union - (Mariya Shubina, Antonina Seredina)
United Team of Germany - (Therese Zenz, Ingrid Hartmann)
Hungary - (Klara Fried-Banfalvi, Vilma Egresi)
1964
United Team of Germany - (Roswitha Esser, Annemarie Zimmermann)
United States - (Francine Fox, Glorianne Perrier)
Romania - (Hilde Lauer, Cornelia Sideri)
1968
West Germany - (Roswitha Esser, Annemarie Zimmermann) Hungary - (Anna Pfeffer, Katalin Rozsnyoi)
Soviet Union - (Lyudmila Pinayeva, Antonina Seredina)
1972
Soviet Union - (Lyudmila Pineyeva, Yekaterina Kuryshko)
East Germany - (Ilse Kaschube, Petra Grabowski)
Romania - (Maria Nichiforov, Viorica Dumitru)
1976
Soviet Union - (Nina Gopova, Galina Kreft)
Hungary - (Anna Pfeffer, Klara Rajnai)
East Germany - (Barbel Koster, Carola Zirzow)
1980
East Germany - (Carsta Genauß, Martina Bischof)
Soviet Union - (Galina Alexeyeva, Nina Trofimova)
Hungary - (Eva Rakusz, Maria Zakarias)
1984
Sweden - (Agneta Andersson, Anna Olsson)
Canada - (Alexandra Barre, Susan Holloway)
West Germany - (Josefa Idem, Barbara Schuttpelz)
1988
East Germany - (Birgit Schmidt, Anke Nothnagel)
Bulgaria - (Vanja Gesheva, Diana Paliiska)
Netherlands - (Annemiek Derckx, Annemarie Cox)
1992
Germany - (Ramona Portwich, Anke von Seck)
Sweden - (Agneta Andersson, Susanne Gunnarsson)
Hungary - (Rita Koban, Eva Donusz)
1996
Sweden - (Agneta Andersson, Susanne Gunnarsson) Germany - (Birgit Fischer, Ramona Portwich)
Australia - (Anna Wood, Katrin Borchert)
2000
Germany - (Birgit Fischer, Katrin Wagner)
Hungary - (Katalin Kovacs, Szilvia Szabo)
Poland - (Beata Sokolowska, Aneta Pastuszka)
2004
Hungary - (Katalin Kovacs, Natasa Janics)
Germany - (Birgit Fischer, Carolin Leonhardt)
Poland - (Aneta Pastuszka, Beata Sokolowska-Kulesza)
2008
Hungary - (Katalin Kovacs, Natasa Janics) Poland - (Beata Mikolajczyk, Aneta Konieczna)
France - (Maria Delattre, Anne-Laure Viard)
2012
Germany - (Franziska Weber, Tina Dietze)
Hungary - (Katalin Kovacs, Natasa Dusev-Janics)
Poland - (Beata Mikołajczyk, Karolina Naja)
2016
Hungary - (Gabriella Szabó, Danuta Kozák)
Germany - (Franziska Weber, Tina Dietze)
Poland - (Beata Mikołajczyk, Karolina Naja)
2020
New Zealand - (Lisa Carrington, Caitlin Regal) Poland - (Karolina Naja, Anna Puławska) Hungary - (Danuta Kozák, Dóra Bodonyi)
2024
New Zealand - (Lisa Carrington, Alicia Hoskin)
Hungary - (Tamara Csipes, Alida Dóra Gazsó)
Germany - (Paulina Paszek, Jule Hake)
Hungary - (Noemi Pupp, Sara Fojt)

Medal Total   Men's  Women's
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Hungary
4
6
5
15
2
Germany
7
4
2
12
3
Soviet Union 4
3
1
8
4
Poland 0
3
4
7
5
East Germany
3
1
2
6
6
Australia
0
2
3
5
7
New Zealand 4
0
0
4
8
Sweden
2
2
0
4
9
Romania 0
0
3
3
10
United Team of Germany 1
1
0
2
11
Spain 1
1
0
2
12
West Germany
1
0
1
2
13
Canada 0
1
1
2
14
Italy 0
1
1
2
15
Belarus 0
0
2
2
16
United States
0
1
0
1
17
Bulgaria
0
1
0
1
18
Netherlands
0
0
1
1
19
France
0
0
1
1
20
Hungary
0
0
1
1