The canoeing competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States was composed of 16 events in two disciplines, slalom and sprint. Timing in 1/1000ths of a second began at these games for the sprint events.
Slalom events took place at Ocoee Whitewater Center near Ducktown, Tennessee.
| Men's C-1 | ||||
| Men's C-2 | ||||
| Men's K-1 | ||||
| Women's K-1 |
Sprint events were held at Lake Lanier, Georgia.
| C-1 500 metres | ||||
| C-1 1000 metres | ||||
| C-2 500 metres | György Kolonics Csaba Horváth | Viktor Reneysky Nicolae Juravschi | Gheorghe Andriev Grigore Obreja | |
| C-2 1000 metres | Andreas Dittmer Gunar Kirchbach | Marcel Glăvan Antonel Borșan | Csaba Horváth György Kolonics | |
| K-1 500 metres | ||||
| K-1 1000 metres | ||||
| K-2 500 metres | Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche | Beniamino Bonomi Daniele Scarpa | Daniel Collins Andrew Trim | |
| K-2 1000 metres | Antonio Rossi Daniele Scarpa | Kay Bluhm Torsten Gutsche | Andrian Dushev Milko Kazanov | |
| K-4 1000 metres | Thomas Reineck Olaf Winter Detlef Hofmann Mark Zabel | András Rajna Gábor Horváth Ferenc Csipes Attila Adrovicz | Oleg Gorobiy Sergey Verlin Georgiy Tsybulnikov Anatoli Tishchenko |