Canoe sprint at the 2015 European Games

Canoeing was contested at the 2015 European Games between 14 and 16 June 2015.

Canoe sprint at the 2015 European Games
Venue	Kur Sport and Rowing Centre, Mingachevir
Dates	14–16 June 2015
Competitors	350[1]

No canoe slalom events were held in Baku. A total of fifteen medal events were held, three for men only in canoe, and 12 events in kayak across both genders, all on flat water.

Despite the sport being described in official literature as canoe sprint, in line with Olympic practice, a canoe marathon, a 5000-metre non-Olympic event, was included for each gender.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is restricted to one boat per event, a maximum of fifteen boats, and therefore a maximum of 26 qualified athletes. Azerbaijan, as host, is guaranteed entry of three athletes, in three boats; K1-1000 metres and C1-1000 metres for men, and the K1-500 metres for women.

The bulk of qualification (all places other than host and 'universality' places) will be awarded by virtue of performance in the 2014 European Canoe Sprint Championships. Places will be awarded to NOCs rather than individual athletes. Each event has a quota of places available as set out below:[2]

Event	Quota (boats/athletes)	Event	Quota (boats/athletes)
Men		Women
K1-200m	23(23)	K1-200m	18(18)
K1-1000m	23(23)	K1-500m	18(18)
K1-5000m	13(13)	K1-5000m	13(13)
K2-200m	14(28)	K2-200m	14(28)
K2-1000m	14(28)	K2-500m	14(28)
K4-1000m	10(40)	K4-1000m	10(40)
C1-200m	15(15)
C1-1000m	15(15)
C2-1000m	10(20)

In the event an athlete qualifies in two boats (e.g. K1-1000m and K2-1000m), he or she will be allowed to compete in both events, but will only take up the quota place in the larger boat; the unused quota place in the smaller boat will then be redistributed. Where a boat qualifies in two events of the same boat size but over two distances (e.g. 200m and 1000m in K2), that boat will be allowed to compete in both events, but will only take up the quota place in the longer event; the unused quota place in the shorter event will then be redistributed. In both cases this will allow for more boats to compete in a particular event than there are quota places.

Timetable

OC

Opening ceremony

T

Training day

●

Event competitions

1

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

June		12th Fri	13th Sat	14th Sun	15th Mon	16th Tue	17th Wed	18th Thu	19th Fri	20th Sat	21st Sun	22nd Mon	23rd Tue	24th Wed	25th Thu	26th Fri	27th Sat	28th Sun	Events
Canoe sprint		OC		●	5	10												CC	15

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 200m	Henrikas Žustautas  Lithuania	Valentin Demyanenko  Azerbaijan	Martin Fuksa  Czech Republic
C-1 1000m	Sebastian Brendel  Germany	Martin Fuksa  Czech Republic	Attila Vajda  Hungary
C-2 1000m	Belarus Andrei Bahdanovich Aliaksandr Bahdanovich	Russia Alexey Korovashkov Ilya Pervukhin	Germany Peter Kretschmer Michael Mueller
K-1 200m^1	Petter Menning  Sweden	Ed McKeever  Great Britain	Aleksejs Rumjancevs  Latvia Marko Dragosavljević  Serbia
K-1 1000m	Max Hoff  Germany	Fernando Pimenta  Portugal	Rene Holten Poulsen  Denmark
K-1 5000m	Max Hoff  Germany	Fernando Pimenta  Portugal	Cyrille Carre  France
K-2 200m	Serbia Nebojša Grujić Marko Novaković	Germany Ronald Rauhe Tom Liebscher	Hungary Sándor Tótka Péter Molnár
K-2 1000m	Hungary Zoltán Kammerer Tamás Szalai	Germany Max Rendschmidt Marcus Gross	Belarus Vitaliy Bialko Raman Piatrushenka
K-4 1000m	Hungary Zoltán Kammerer Dávid Tóth Tamás Kulifai Dániel Pauman	Russia Alexandr Sergeev Vasily Pogreban Anton Ryakhov Vladislav Blintcov	Belarus Pavel Miadzvedzeu Aleh Yurenia Vitaliy Bialko Raman Piatrushenka

Notes

1. ^ Miklós Dudás of Hungary originally won the gold medal, but were later disqualified due to doping violations.[3][4]

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 200m	Marta Walczykiewicz  Poland	Natalia Podolskaya  Russia	Danuta Kozák  Hungary
K-1 500m	Danuta Kozák  Hungary	Yvonne Schuring  Austria	Ewelina Wojnarowska  Poland
K-1 5000m	Maryna Litvinchuk  Belarus	Lani Belcher  Great Britain	Renáta Csay  Hungary
K-2 200m	Belarus Marharyta Makhneva Maryna Litvinchuk	Serbia Nikolina Moldovan Olivera Moldovan	Ukraine Mariya Povkh Anastasiia Todorova
K-2 500m	Serbia Milica Starović Dalma Ružičić-Benedek	Romania Roxana Borha Elena Meroniac	Hungary Anna Kárász Ninetta Vad
K-4 500m	Hungary Gabriella Szabó Anna Kárász Danuta Kozák Ninetta Vad	Germany Franziska Weber Verena Hantl Conny Wassmuth Tina Dietze	Poland Karolina Naja Ewelina Wojnarowska Edyta Dzieniszewska-Kierkla Beata Mikołajczyk

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Azerbaijan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	4	0	5	9
2	Germany	3	3	1	7
3	Belarus	3	0	2	5
4	Serbia	2	1	1	4
5	Poland	1	0	2	3
6	Lithuania	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
8	Russia	0	3	0	3
9	Great Britain	0	2	0	2
	Portugal	0	2	0	2
11	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
12	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Azerbaijan*	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
15	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 nations)		15	15	16	46

References

1. Qualification summary
2. Canoe sprint qualification summary
3. "Petter Menning guldmedaljör i efterhand!". www.kanot.com. Swedish Canoeing Association. 19 June 2019. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
4. "Baku 2015 medals for sprint canoe reallocated to Minsk 2019 trio". eurolympic.org. EOC. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2019.

External links

• Results book