Canoe Sprint at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The Olympic canoeing program was standardized in 1992, with no change in the men’s and women’s programs from 1992-2008. There were nine men’s flatwater events (five kayak, four Canadian canoe) and three women’s flatwater kayak events, all considered canoe sprint events.

Germany and Hungary won seven medals in sprint canoeing, with Hungary taking four gold medals and Germany three. In the men’s kayak singles, Norway’s Knut Holmann won both gold medals over 500 and 1,000 metres, followed by Bulgarian Petar Merkov, who took the silver medals.

The venues for flatwater and whitewater were separate, as they have to be, but they were adjacent and were set at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith, New South Wales, which also hosted the rowing events. Penrith is a western suburb of Sydney, approximately 50 km from the city center.