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- Competition dates: August 11 - August 23, 2008
- Venue: Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park
- Four slalom events
- 12 flatwater events
- 16 total sets of medals were awarded in slalom and flatwater events
- 82 athletes competed (61 men, 21 women)Official Site: Canoe/Kayak Slalom
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The United States was represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics by five athletes in the Canoe-Kayak events in Beijing. Canoeing and kayaking events were held from August 11 to August 23 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. The U.S. team did not earn any medals in canoeing or kayaking at the 2008 Summer Games.NBC Olympics: Canoe/Kayak 2008 Medals Standings By Nation
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U.S. Men's Team
- (One man canoe) - Benn Fraker
- (Two man canoe) - Casey Eichfeld, Rick Powell
- (One man kayak) - Scott Parsons
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US Olympic Canoeing 2008 Questions
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What was US per capita income for 2008? 3 AnswersWikipedia quotes the IMF ($47,440) the World Bank ($46,716) and the CIA World Factbook ($46,900) as the per capita GDP for 2008. The average of these three numb... read more -
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2008 Olympic Canoeing Medal Winners
Men's Slalom/Whitewater Event Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal One-person canoe Michal Martikan - Slovakia David Florence - Great Britain Robin Bell - Australia One-person kayak Alexander Grimm - Germany Fabien Lefevre - France Benjamin Boukpeti - Togo Two-person canoe Cedric Forgit and Martin Braud - France Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner - Slovakia Jaroslav Volf and Ondrej Stepanek - Czech Republic
Women's Flatwater Event Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal One-person 500 m kayak Inna Osupenko-Radomska - Ukraine Josefa Idem - Italy Katrin Wagner-Augustin - Germany Two-person 500 m kayak Katalin Kovacs and Natasa Janics - Hungary Beata Mikolajczyk and Aneta Konieczna - Poland Marie Delattre and Anne-Laure Viard - France Four-person 500 m kayak Germany Hungary Australia
Women's Slalom/Whitewater Event Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal One-person kayak Elena Kaliska - Slovakia Jacqueline Lawrence - Australia Violetta Oblinger Peters - Austria
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