Canoe Sprint was introduced to the Olympic Games program in 1936 at the Berlin Olympic Games. Australia made its first appearance in Olympic Canoe Sprint competition at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games.
Since this first appearance Australia has had 84 athletes participate in Canoe Sprint at the Olympic Games. Many of these representatives have been to more than one Olympic Games.
Our longest serving Olympians are Dennis Green and Adrian Powell who have both been to five Olympic Games. Dennis Green's first Olympics were the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and his last was the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Adrian Powell first participated in the Olympic Games in 1960 in Rome and finished his Olympic Games career in 1976 in Montreal.
In 2004 Clint Robinson and Daniel Collins joined Barry Stuart with Four Olympic Games representative honours. Both Clint and Daniel began their Olympic careers at the 1992 Barcelona Olympc Games and recently competed at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Barry Stuart was in Australia's first Olympic Team in 1956 and finished his career after the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. Clint has since gone on to compete at his fifth games at Beijing in 2008.
Australia's first Olympic medal was won in 1956 in Melbourne by Walter Brown and Dennis Green, alaiming the bronze medal in the K2 10,000m (now discontinued).
Australians have won 17 Olympic medals, (2 Gold, 5 Silver and 10 Bronze).
Canoe Slalom was introduced to the Olympic Games program in 1972 at the Munich Olympic Games. Due to the immense cost of a man-made courses, the Munich Olympic Games would be the last time that Slalom would appear until the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games in Spain.
Slalom was again taken out of the Olympic Games program after the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games but was reinstated into the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games program in September 1997.
Australia first participated in Olympic Canoe Slalom competition at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
Since this first Olympic Games appearance Australia has had 16 athletes participate in Slalom Canoe/Kayak at the Olympic Games. Of these representatives five have been to more than one Olympic Games.
Our longest serving Olympian is Danielle Woodward who competed at the Barcelona Olympic Games, Atlanta Olympic Games and the Sydney Olympic Games. Matthew Pallister, Andrew Wilson and Robin Bell have all competed at two Olympic Games and Atlanta Olympic Games.
Australia's firat Olympic medal was won in 1992 in Barcelona by Danielle Woodward. The Victorian won the silver medal in the Women's Kayak event.
In Beijing in 2008 the Australian Slalom Team had it's most succesful Olympics with Jacqui Lawrence winning Silver in Women's K1 and Robin Bell picking up a Bronze medal in the Men's C1
In London in 2012 Australian produced another medal in the Women's K1 with Jessica Fox winning a silver medal at only 18 years of age.
