Canoe Slalom 2016 Rio Olympic Review

Men’s Slalom C-1

Sideris Tasiadis (Germany) led the way in the preliminary heats ahead of Denis Gargaud Chanut (France) and David Florence (Great Britain). Tasiadis was again fastest in the semi-finals, albeit in a slower time, with Ander Elosegi (Spain) in second. Tasiadis could not keep up his strong performances in the final, getting his first penalties of the competition and finishing fifth. Instead, Chanut would put down his best run yet to take gold ahead of Matej Benus (Slovakia).

🥇Denis Gargaud Chanut 🇫🇷

🥈Matej Benus 🇸🇰

🥉Takuya Haneda 🇯🇵

Men's Slalom C-2

Skantar/Skantar (Slovakia) laid down a marker on the first run in the heats, posting 100.89. Klauss/Peche (France) were second with 103.35 and 102.43. Kaspar/Sindler (Czech Republic) were actually fastest down the course, but with four penalty points. The semi-finals were contested in worse conditions and Anton/Benzien (Germany) led the field. Again the Czech pair got down the course fastest, but penalty points put them into second. In the final, the medalists all had clean runs, led by the Skantar brothers.

🥇Ladislav Skantar/Peter Skantar 🇸🇰

🥈David Florence/Richard Hounslow 🇬🇧

🥉Gauthier Klauss/Matthieu Peche 🇫🇷

Men’s Slalom K-1

The heats saw Joe Clarke (Great Britain) recover from a poor first run, which left him last, to come second in the heats. Giovanni De Gennaro (Italy) was the fastest. In the semi-finals, Jakub Grigar (Slovakia) led by almost two seconds from Jiri Prskavec (Czech Republic). The final was incredibly close, though, with five men separated by less than a second. Leading the charge was Clarke, while Prskavec paddled the fastest time, but a penalty cost him gold.

🥇Joe Clarke 🇬🇧

🥈Peter Kauzer 🇸🇮

🥉Jiri Prskavec 🇨🇿

Women’s Slalom K-1

Recovering from an awful first run was Maialen Chourraut (Spain), who improved into eleventh. Stefanie Horn (Italy) led the heats, with Jessica Fox (Australia) the only other athlete under 100 seconds. In the semi-finals, Corinna Kuhnle (Austria) led over Fiona Pennie (Great Britain). The fastest time of any female came in the final, as Chourraut went under 99 seconds. In second, a clean round from Luuka Jones (New Zealand) was enough to get a silver medal despite the quicker times of Fox and Kuhnle.

🥇Maialen Chourraut 🇪🇸

🥈Luuka Jones 🇳🇿

🥉Jessica Fox 🇦🇺