Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's K-1 500 metres

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1	men
C-2	men
K-1	men	women
Sprint
C-1 500 m	men
C-1 1000 m	men
C-2 500 m	men
C-2 1000 m	men
K-1 500 m	men	women
K-1 1000 m	men
K-2 500 m	men	women
K-2 1000 m	men
K-4 500 m		women
K-4 1000 m	men

These are the results of the men's K-1 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The K-1 event is raced by single-man canoe sprint kayaks.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	Ian Wynne (GBR)

Heats

The 28 competitors first raced in three heats for position in one of three semifinal races. As there are 9 lanes on the course, 27 of 28 kayakers moved on. The heats were raced on August 24.

Heat	Place	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Eirik Verås Larsen	Norway	1:36.905	QS
1	2	Nathan Baggaley	Australia	1:37.997	QS
1	3	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb	France	1:39.401	QS
1	4	Michael Kolganov	Israel	1:39.745	QS
1	5	Kimmo Latvamaki	Finland	1:40.645	QS
1	6	Anders Gustafsson	Sweden	1:40.689	QS
1	7	Andrey Shkiotov	Russia	1:40.809	QS
2	1	Ian Wynne	Great Britain	1:37.341	QS
2	2	Ákos Vereckei	Hungary	1:37.589	QS
2	3	Petar Merkov	Bulgaria	1:38.725	QS
2	4	Andrea Facchin	Italy	1:40.025	QS
2	5	Carlos Pérez	Spain	1:40.149	QS
2	6	Anton Ryahov	Uzbekistan	1:42.253	QS
2	7	Liu Haitao	China	1:43.337	QS
3	1	Adam van Koeverden	Canada	1:37.591	QS
3	2	Javier Correa	Argentina	1:38.675	QS
3	3	Lutz Altepost	Germany	1:38.859	QS
3	4	Emanuel Silva	Portugal	1:40.067	QS
3	5	Sebastian Cuattrin	Brazil	1:40.999	QS
3	6	Martin Chorváth	Slovakia	1:42.383	QS
3	7	Simon Faeh	Switzerland	1:42.415	QS
4	1	Alan van Coller	South Africa	1:40.089	QS
4	2	Rami Zur	United States	1:40.349	QS
4	3	Alvydas Duonėla	Lithuania	1:40.365	QS
4	4	Paweł Baumann	Poland	1:42.581	QS
4	5	Apostolos Papandreou	Greece	1:44.217	QS
4	6	Tony Lespoir	Seychelles	2:02.669	QS
4	7	Steven Ferguson	New Zealand	2:06.937

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the final. Fourth place and higher competitors were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 26.

Semifinal 1
1.	Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	1:38.361	QF
2.	Ákos Vereckei (HUN)	1:38.737	QF
3.	Javier Correa (ARG)	1:39.525	QF
4.	Alvydas Duonėla (LTU)	1:40.253
5.	Anton Ryahov (UZB)	1:40.737
6.	Kimmo Latvamaki (FIN)	1:40.753
7.	Andrey Shkiotov (RUS)	1:40.765
8.	Sebastian Cuattrin (BRA)	1:42.213
9.	Paweł Baumann (POL)	1:43.125
Semifinal 2
1.	Ian Wynne (GBR)	1:38.911	QF
2.	Lutz Altepost (GER)	1:39.643	QF
3.	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb (FRA)	1:40.467	QF
4.	Rami Zur (USA)	1:40.727
5.	Simon Faeh (SUI)	1:41.039
6.	Carlos Pérez (ESP)	1:41.335
7.	Emanuel Silva (POR)	1:43.051
8.	Michael Kolganov (ISR)	1:43.411
9.	Tony Lespoir (SEY)	2:04.975
Semifinal 3
1.	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	1:38.907	QF
2.	Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	1:39.031	QF
3.	Andrea Facchin (ITA)	1:40.387	QF
4.	Alan van Coller (RSA)	1:41.131
5.	Anders Gustafsson (SWE)	1:41.291
6.	Petar Merkov (BUL)	1:42.207
7.	Martin Chorváth (SVK)	1:43.095
8.	Liu Haitao (CHN)	1:46.179
9.	Apostolos Papandreou (GRE)	1:46.627

Final

The final was raced on August 28.

	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	1:37.919
	Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	1:38.467
	Ian Wynne (GBR)	1:38.547
4.	Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	1:38.667
5.	Ákos Vereckei (HUN)	1:39.315
6.	Lutz Altepost (GER)	1:39.647
7.	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb (FRA)	1:40.187
8.	Javier Correa (ARG)	1:40.639
9.	Andrea Facchin (ITA)	1:41.575

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results (in English), (in French), & (in Greek)
• Sports-reference.com 2004 men's K-1 500 m results
• Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results