List of Olympic venues in canoeing

For the Summer Olympics there are 26 venues that have been or will be used in canoeing. Initially set for canoe sprint (flatwater racing until November 2008), canoe slalom (slalom racing until November 2008) was first added at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Dropped after those games, canoe slalom was reinstituted at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Games Venue Other sports hosted at venue for those games Capacity Ref.
1936 BerlinBerlin-Grünau Regatta CourseRowing19,000 [1]
1948 LondonHenley Royal RegattaRowingNot listed. [2]
1952 HelsinkiTaivallahtiNoneNot listed. [3]
1956 MelbourneLake WendoureeRowing14,300 [4]
1960 RomeLake AlbanoRowing10,000 [5]
1964 TokyoLake SagamiNone1,500[6][7]
1968 Mexico CityVirgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing CourseRowing17,600 [8]
1972 MunichEiskanal (slalom)None25,000 [9]
Regattastrecke Oberschleißheim (sprint)Rowing41,000 [10]
1976 MontrealNotre Dame IslandRowing27,000 [11]
1980 MoscowKrylatskoye Sports Complex Canoeing and Rowing BasinRowing21,600 [12]
1984 Los AngelesLake CasitasRowing4,680 [13]
1988 SeoulHan River Regatta Course/Canoeing SiteRowing25,000 [14]
1992 BarcelonaCanal Olímpic de Catalunya (sprint)None500 [15]
Parc Olímpic del Segre (slalom)None2,500 [16]
1996 AtlantaLake Lanier (sprint)Rowing17,300 [17][18]
Ocoee Whitewater Center (slalom)None14,400 [19][20]
2000 SydneyPenrith Whitewater Stadium (slalom)None12,500 [21]
Sydney International Regatta Centre (sprint)Rowing20,000 [22]
2004 AthensOlympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre (slalom)None3,150 [23]
Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre (sprint)Rowing14,000 [24]
2008 BeijingShunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing ParkRowing, Swimming (marathon)37,000 [25]
2012 LondonDorney Lake (sprint)Rowing30,000 [26]
Lee Valley White Water Centre (slalom)None12,000 [27]
2016 Rio de JaneiroLagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (sprint)Rowing14,000[28]
Olympic Whitewater Stadium (slalom)None8,000[29]
2020 TokyoKasai Rinkai Park (slalom)None7,500
Sea Forest Waterway (sprint)Rowing12,800
Lake Wendouree hosted the canoeing events when the 1956 Summer Olympics were in Melbourne.
The Eiskanal in Augsburg hosted the canoe slalom for the 1972 Summer Olympics held in neighboring Munich.
Lake Lanier in 2010. For the 1996 Summer Olympics in neighboring Atlanta, the venue hosted the canoe sprint events.

References
  1. 1936 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-07-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 996-1029. Accessed 17 October 2010.
  2. 1948 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine pp. 43, 47-8. Accessed 19 October 2010.
  3. 1952 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine p. 52. Accessed 21 October 2010.
  4. 1956 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine p. 42. Accessed 25 October 2010.
  5. 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. pp. 82-3. Accessed 28 October 2010.
  6. 1964 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. p. 115. Accessed 31 October 2010.
  7. 1964 Summer Olympics official report Volume 1, Part 1. Archived 2010-07-07 at the Wayback Machine p. 131. Accessed 31 October 2010.
  8. 1968 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. p. 75. Accessed 4 November 2010. (in English and French)
  9. 1972 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 208-9. Accessed 8 November 2010.
  10. 1972 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 2. pp. 204-5. Accessed 8 November 2010.
  11. 1976 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 112-7. Accessed 14 November 2010.
  12. 1980 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. Part 1. pp. 91-4. Accessed 18 November 2010.
  13. 1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2010-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 108-12. Accessed 24 November 2010.
  14. 1988 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-11-18 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. Part 1. pp. 186-7. Accessed 1 December 2010.
  15. 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 319-22. Accessed 6 December 2010.
  16. 1992 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 327-30. Accessed 6 December 2010.
  17. 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 541. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  18. 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 452, 460. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  19. 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 542. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  20. 1996 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. p. 164. Accessed 9 December 2010.
  21. 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 377. Accessed 17 December 2010.
  22. 2000 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2000-11-09 at the Wayback Machine Volume 1. p. 389. Accessed 17 December 2010.
  23. 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. p. 291. Accessed 24 December 2010.
  24. 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Volume 2. pp. 283, 372. Accessed 24 December 2010.
  25. "Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park". Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
  26. London2012.com profile of Dorney Lake (Eton Dorney). Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today Accessed 30 December 2010.
  27. London2012.com profile of Lee Valley White Water Centre. Archived 2011-01-01 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 30 December 2010.
  28. "Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File (PDF), 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 70–73, archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2013, retrieved December 2, 2009.
  29. "Olympic Whitewater Stadium", Rio de Janeiro 2016 Candidate File (PDF), 2, (BOC), February 16, 2009, pp. 126–127, archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2013, retrieved December 2, 2009.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.