What is your favourite international Olympic canoe/kayak sprint moment?
Hungary’s Gyorgy Kozmann and Tamas Kiss win C-2 1000m bronze at Beijing 2008 just a month after Kozmann’s former partner and four-time Olympic medallist Gyorgy Kolonics died of heart failure during training.
At Beijing 2008, Ukraine’s Inna Osypenko-Radomska defeats Italy’s Josefa Idem-Guerrini by just 0.004 of a second to win the K-1 500m.
Germany’s Birgit Fischer wins gold and silver at Athens 2004, her sixth and final Olympic appearance at age 42, to bring her career medal total to 12, the most by a paddler.
Swede Gert Fredriksson wins the K-1 1000m three straight times from London 1948 to Melbourne 1956
It takes examination of the photo finish to determine that American Greg Barton won K-1 1000m gold at Seoul 1988 by 0.005 of a second over Australian Grant Davies, the equivalent of less than one centimetre.
After taking an 18-month leave from sport following Athens 2004 to focus on his medical career, Tim Brabants returns to win K-1 1000m gold at Beijing 2008.
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