Canoeing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 500 metres

13 competitors were entered. Held on August 6, the top three finishers in each heat moved on to the semifinals with the others were relegated to the repechages.

Heat 1
1.	Henning Lynge Jakobsen (DEN)	2:05.09	QS
2.	Timo Grönlund (FIN)	2:06.11	QS
3.	Kiyoto Inoue (JPN)	2:06.61	QS
4.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	2:07.90	QR
5.	Stephen Train (GBR)	2:08.80	QR
6.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:13.21	QR
Heat 2
1.	Costicǎ Olaru (ROU)	2:03.49	QS
2.	Larry Cain (CAN)	2:04.30	QS
3.	Hartmut Faust (FRG)	2:05.95	QS
4.	John Plankenhorn (USA)	2:07.20	QR
5.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:08.01	QR
6.	Göran Backlund (SWE)	2:15.72	QR
7.	Yun Hui-Chun (KOR)	2:40.92	QR

Repechages were held on August 6 with the top three finishers in each repechage advancing to the semifinals.

Repechage 1
1.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:08.30	QS
2.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:09.72	QS
3.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	2:10.44	QS
4.	Yun Hui-Chun (KOR)	2:51.38
Repechage 2
1.	Stephen Train (GBR)	2:12.69	QS
2.	John Plankenhorn (USA)	2:13.18	QS
3.	Göran Backlund (SWE)	2:21.81	QS

Three semifinals were held on August 8 with the top three finishers of each semifinal advancing to the final.

Semifinal 1
1.	Henning Lynge Jakobsen (DEN)	2:01.42	QF
2.	Hartmut Faust (FRG)	2:02.60	QF
3.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	2:03.30	QF
4.	Stephen Train (GBR)	2:06.01
Semifinal 2
1.	Costicǎ Olaru (ROU)	2:02.62	QF
2.	Kiyoto Inoue (JPN)	2:03.55	QF
3.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:04.38	QF
4.	John Plankenhorn (USA)	2:04.54
Semifinal 3
1.	Larry Cain (CAN)	2:02.60	QF
2.	Timo Grönlund (FIN)	2:03.36	QF
3.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:06.87	QF
4.	Göran Backlund (SWE)	2:14.08

The final took place on August 10.

	Larry Cain (CAN)	1:57.91
	Henning Lynge Jakobsen (DEN)	1:58.45
	Costicǎ Olaru (ROU)	1:59.86
4.	Philippe Renaud (FRA)	1:59.95
5.	Timo Grönlund (FIN)	2:01.00
6.	Kiyoto Inoue (JPN)	2:01.79
7.	Hartmut Faust (FRG)	2:01.85
8.	Robert Rozanski (NOR)	2:02.12
9.	Francisco López (ESP)	2:03.95