Canoeing at the Summer Olympics

Canoeing/kayaking has been featured as a sport in the Summer Olympic Games since the 1936 Games in Berlin. There are two disciplines of canoeing in Olympic competition: flatwater and slalom.

Two styles of boats are used in this sport, canoes with 1 or 2 canoers and kayaks with 1, 2 or 4 kayakers. This leads to the name designation of each event. For example, "C-1" is a "canoe singles" event and "K-2" is a "kayak doubles" event. Races are usually 500 metres or 1000 metres long, although there were also 10 km events from 1936 to 1956.

Events

The following tables shows which events were contested at each Games.

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