- Martin Marinov
Martin Marinov (born 25 October 1967) is a retired Bulgarian flatwater canoer. A former "Mr Bulgaria" he won two Olympic medals for that country in the Canadian canoeing 500m events. In Seoul in 1988 he was the bronze medallist in the C-1 500m. Four years later in Barcelona he and teammate Blagovest Stoyanov won bronze in the C-2 500m. At the 1996 Olympics Marinov and Stojanov reached both C-2 finals, finishing fourth (1000m) and fifth (500m).
- Ian Ferguson
Ian Gordon Ferguson, MBE, (born July 20, 1952 in Taumarunui) is New Zealand's most successful Olympian, competing in K1, K2, and K4 kayak events. He first competed at the Montreal, Canada Olympic Games in 1976 and again at Moscow, Russia Olympic Games in 1980. In the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 1984 he earned three gold medals. He then earned another gold medal and a silver medal at the Olympic Games held in Seoul, Korea in 1988.
- Agneta Andersson
Agneta Andersson (born April 25 1961) is a Swedish canoeist. Andersson was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1996, jointly with Susanne Gunnarsson.
- Caroline Brunet
Caroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian kayaker, who competed in five Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. She began kayaking at age eleven. She has won two silver medals at the Olympics in the women's K1 500 m event (in 1996 and 2000) and a bronze in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. On top of that, she has won ten world championship golds, seven silvers and four bronze medals: *1993 in Copenhagen, …
- Susanne Gunnarsson
Susanne Gunnarsson is a Swedish canoeist. She was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1996, jointly with Agneta Andersson.
- Josefa Idem
Josefa Idem Guerrini (born September 23, 1964 in Goch, West Germany) is an Italian canoer. She has won four Olympic medals in kayak flatwater canoe racing, and 35 international medals during her career. She was the first Italian woman to win World Championships and Olympic medals in kayak. Josefa Idem began paddling at the age of eleven. In 1977, aged thirteen, she competed at the European Championships in Plovdiv and won gold medals over 200, …
- Ivan Klementjev
Ivan Klementjev (born November 18, 1960) is a retired Latvian flatwater canoer, who won three Olympic medals in C-1 1000 metres at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. The highlight was the gold medal in 1988, which he won as a competitor for the USSR. He trained at Trudovye Rezervy and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Riga in the Soviet time. He also won a total of seven world championship C-1 gold medals between 1985 and 1994, …
- Viktor Reneysky
Viktor Iosifovich Reneysky, born January 24, 1967 in Babruysk, is a canoer from Belarus who won three Olympic medals for the USSR and Moldova in the C-2 event with his teammate Nikolaï Juravschi. He also won a total of nine world titles, more than any other Canadian canoe paddler of his generation. Reneysky trained at Dynamo in Babruysk. Reneysky and Juravschi won two gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics as competitors for the USSR.
- Larry Cain
Laurence J. "Larry" Cain (born January 9, 1963) is a Canadian canoeist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the first Canadian canoeist since Frank Amyot to win a Gold medal in canoeing. In 1984, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1997, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He currently teaches Physical Education at St.Mildred's-Lightbourn School.
- Ferenc Csipes
Ferenc Csipes is a Hungarian canoer who has won four Olympic medals (one gold, two silver and one bronze) in kayak flatwater canoeing. He also won eight world championship golds between 1985 and 1991. *1985 K1 1000m Mechelen, Belgium *1986 K1 10000m Montreal, Canada *1986 K4 1000m Montreal, Canada *1987 K2 1000m Duisburg, Germany *1987 K4 1000m Duisburg, Germany *1989 K4 1000m Plovdiv, Bulgaria *1990 K4 1000m Poznań, Poland *1991 K4 1000m Paris, France
- Paul MacDonald
Paul MacDonald, MBE, (born January 8, 1960) is a retired New Zealand professional canoer. He is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most successful international athletes and holds innumerable international speed records in canoeing. He received his first medals at the 1987 World Canoeing Championships in West Germany where Paul, with team-mate Ian Ferguson, won Gold in the K2 1000m and Silver in the K2 500m, …
- Viktor Denisov
Viktor Denisov (born April 2, 1966 in Kalinin), is a retired Russian flatwater canoer who won seven world championship titles between 1987 and 1994 - three for the USSR and then four for Russia. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Kalinin. All his world titles came in the four-man kayak (K4). At the Seoul Olympics he won the silver medal in the K4 1000m final. He also won silver in the K2 event with Soviet team-mate Igor Nagayev, …
- Ramona Portwich
Ramona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is a German flatwater canoer. She won five Olympic medals in the K-2 and K-4 500 m events.
- Zsolt Gyulai
Zsolt Gyulay (born September 12, 1964) is a former Hungarian flatwater canoer who has won four Olympic medals in the K-1 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. He was also very successful in the Flatwater Racing World Championships.
- Nicolae Juravschi
Nicolae Juravschi (or Nikolai Juravskiborn August 8, 1964) is a Moldovan canoer, who won three Olympic medals in the C-2 event with his teammate Viktor Reneysky. In Soviet time Juravschi trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Kishinev. The pair won two gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics, as competitors for the USSR. In the next three years Juravschi won a total of 8 world championship gold medals in the C-2 and C-4 events.
- Annemiek Derckx
Anna Maria ("Annemiek") Josephine Derckx (born April 12, 1954 in Beegden, Limburg) is a retired canoer from the Netherlands, who represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1984 (Los Angeles, California). In both tournaments she claimed a bronze medal.
- László Fidel
László Fidel is a Hungarian flatwater canoer who won an Olympic silver medal in K-4 1000 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He also won a total of five world championship gold medals - four in the K-4 1000m (1986, 1987, 1990, 1991) and once in the two-man K-2 1000m (1987 with Ferenc Csipes).
- Kay Bluhm
Kay Bluhm (born October 13, 1968 in Brandenburgwas a German flatwater canoe racer who won a total of five Olympic medals. His first medal, a bronze in Seoul, came as a member of Germany's K-4 kayak crew. However Bluhm's greatest success came after he joined forces with Torsten Gutsche in 1989 in the two-man kayak. As the outstanding K-2 pairing of their generation they won three Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver and seven World Championship golds.
- Michał Śliwiński
Michał Śliwiński is a Polish flatwater canoer won six world championship titles over his long career. An ethnic Pole from Ukraine, Śliwiński represented the USSR at the 1988 Olympics, winning the Canadian canoe C-1 500m silver medal at the age of only eighteen. Over the next three years he dominated the event, winning consecutive world championship gold medals in 1989, 1990 and 1991.
- Nikolay Bukhalov
Nikolay Bukhalov (born March 20, 1967 in Karlovo) is Bulgaria's most successful ever flatwater canoer. He competed in the Canadian canoe C-1 event. He won three individual canoe Olympic medals, including double gold at Barcelona in 1992. In addition he won five world championship gold medals (1993, 1994 (2) and 1995 (2)). The final gold medal of his career came at the 1997 European Championships, held on his home course in Plovdiv, where he won the the C-1 500m title.
- Beniamino Bonomi
Beniamino Bonomi (born March 9, 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian flatwater kayak racer and former Olympic, world and European champion. A member of the Gruppo Nautico Fiamme Gialle club, he has represented Italy since 1988. He is 181 cm (5'11") tall and races at 81 kg (180 lbs).
- Philippe Renaud
Philippe Renaud is a retired French professional canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal for the dual French team with Joel Bettin in the C 2 500 metres.
- Attila Ábrahám
Attila Ábrahám is a Hungarian canoer who won three Olympic medals in the flatwater kayak team events. He also won five world championship golds - three as a member of Hungary's K-4 kayak 1000 m crew (1989, 1990, 1991), as well as two in the old K-2 10000 m event (1989, 1993).
- Ogniana Dusheva
Ognyana Petkova,/"Dusheva"/ is Bulgarian canoer, born (December 20,1964) in Svilengrad,Bulgaria Ognyana Petkova,/Dusheva/ started her sports career in Plovdiv “Trakia” Sports Club of canoe-kayak in 1976. She has been a Republican Champion many times over a long period of time. From 1981 onward she was included in the National team of Bulgaria. From 1981 she was in the constant 6-person team at European and World Championships.
- Olaf Heukrodt
Olaf Heukrodt is a retired East German canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the 1500m and a silver medal in the C-2 1000 metres.
- Mikhail Slivinsky
Mikhail Slivinsky (born February 5, 1970) is a retired Soviet canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the C 1 1500 metres.
- Anna Wood
Anna Wood was born on July 22, 1966 in Roermond, Netherlands, but is now a naturalised Australian and retired world-class kayaker. Wood represented Australia at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. With Katrin Borchert she won bronze in the womens K2 500 Olympic event. Two years later the same team was crowned champions in the K2 500 and K2 1.000m events at the World Championships in Hungary. Wood and Borchert again won the K2 1000 world champion title in 1999.
- Éva Rakusz
Éva Rakusz is a Hungarian canoer who won two Olympic medals in the kayak flatwater team events.
- Mikko Kolehmainen
Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen is a retired Finnish flatwater canoer. He won Finland's only gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He represented his country at four separate Olympic Games between 1984 and 1996. At Los Angeles in 1984 he competed in the K2 kayak with his brother Olli. Four years later at the Seoul games he was a member of Finland's four-man (K4) crew.
- Jorg Schmidt
Jorg Schmidt is a retired East German canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the C-1 1000 metres.
- Rita Köbán
Rita Köbán is a Hungarian canoer who has won six Olympic medals (two gold, three silver and one bronze) in kayak flatwater canoeing. She has also been very successful in the Flatwater Racing World Championships.
- Petr Procházka
Petr Procházka is a Czech flatwater canoer and current (2006) world champion in the Canadian canoe C4 200m. World junior champion in Belgrade in 1982, Procházka missed the 1984 Olympics because of the Eastern Bloc's boycott but went on to win two medals at the 1987 senior World Championships in Duisburg, Germany. In the individual C1 500m he was the silver medallist. He also won a bronze medal in the C2 500m with partner Alan Lohniský.
- Marek Łbik
Marek Łbik is a retired Polish professional canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal for the dual Polish team in the C 2 500 metres and a bronze medal in C 2 1000 m, both with Marek Dopierała. He is current chairman of Polish football team Warta Poznań.
- Joël Bettin
Joël Bettin is a retired French professional canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal for the dual French team with Philippe Renaud in the C 2 500 metres.
- Sándor Hódosi
Sándor Hódosi is a Hungarian canoer who won an Olympic gold medal in K-4 1000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
- Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova
Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova (born April 6, 1960) is a Bulgarian canoer who won four Olympic medals in the kayak flatwater events.
- Marek Dopierała
Marek Dopierała is a retired Polish professional canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal for the dual Polish team in the C 2 500 metres and a bronze medal in C 2 1000 m, both with Marek Łbik.
- Ivans Klementyev
Ivans Klementyev is a retired Soviet professional canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the C-1 1000 metres.
- Andreas Stahle
Andreas Stahle is a retired East German canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the K-1 1500 metres.
- Grant Davies
Grant Davies is a retired Australian professional canoer. He competed in Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal in the K 1 1000 metres.