Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres

These are the results of the men's C-1 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The C-1 event is raced by single-man sprint canoes.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
David Cal (ESP)	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	Attila Vajda (HUN)

Heats

The 19 competitors first raced in three heats. The first-place finishers from each of the heats advanced directly to the final, and the remaining 16 canoers moved on to the two semifinal races. The heats were raced on August 23.

Heat	Place	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	3:52.922	QF
1	2	Stanimir Atanasov	Bulgaria	3:55.590	QS
1	3	Marián Ostrčil	Slovakia	3:56.962	QS
1	4	Dagnis Vinogradovs	Latvia	3:57.070	QS
1	5	Jonnathan Tafra	Chile	4:04.402	QS
1	6	Jing Ying	China	4:05.874	QS
1	7	Emanuel Horvaticek	Croatia	4:27.662	QS
2	1	David Cal	Spain	3:50.091	QF
2	2	Stephen Giles	Canada	3:52.451	QS
2	3	Andreas Kiligkaridis	Greece	3:53.723	QS
2	4	Mitică Pricop	Romania	4:00.559	QS
2	5	Aliaksandr Zhukouski	Belarus	4:02.159	QS
2	6	Darwin Correa	Uruguay	4:27.115	QS
3	1	Konstantin Fomichev	Russia	3.48.690	QF
3	2	Martin Doktor	Czech Republic	3:49.029	QS
3	3	Karel Aguilar Chacon	Cuba	3:54.250	QS
3	4	Attila Vajda	Hungary	3:57.290	QS
3	5	Kaissar Nurmaganbetov	Kazakhstan	4:00.486	QS
3	6	Yuriy Cheban	Ukraine	4:00.637	QS

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals advanced to the finals, joining the three canoers who had moved directly from the heats. All other canoers were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 25.

Semifinal 1
1.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	3:51.812	QF
2.	Attila Vajda (HUN)	3:52.236	QF
3.	Marián Ostrčil (SVK)	3:53.820	QF
4.	Andreas Kiligkaridis (GRE)	3:55.608
5.	Mitică Pricop (ROU)	3:59.640
6.	Jing Ying (CHN)	4:00.684
7.	Darwin Correa (URU)	4:22.096
8.	Jonnathan Tafra (CHI)	4:22.644
Semifinal 2
1.	Stephen Giles (CAN)	3:51.720	QF
2.	Karel Aguilar Chacon (CUB)	3:52.260	QF
3.	Dagnis Vinogradovs (LAT)	3:53.656	QF
4.	Aliaksandr Zhukouski (BLR)	3:55.456
5.	Kaissar Nurmaganbetov (KAZ)	3:57.804
6.	Stanimir Atanasov (BUL)	4:05.664
7.	Emanuel Horvaticek (CRO)	4:24.604
8.	Yuriy Cheban (UKR)	DSQ

Cheban was disqualified for not appearing in boat control after the race.

Final

The final was raced on August 27.

	David Cal (ESP)	3:46.201
	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	3:46.721
	Attila Vajda (HUN)	3:49.025
4.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	3:50.405
5.	Stephen Giles (CAN)	3:51.457
6.	Dagnis Vinogradovs (LAT)	3:53.537
7.	Marián Ostrčil (SVK)	3:54.629
8.	Karel Aguilar Chacon (CUB)	3:54.957
9.	Konstantin Fomichev (RUS)	3:55.773

Dittmer got off to a quick lead, but Cal took the lead in an early surge to open a one-second gap at the 500 meter mark. The German tried to close the gap to the Spaniard, but Cal held on to win the gold.

References

2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results (in English, French, and Greek)
Sports-reference.com 2004 C-1 1000 m results.
Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 481.

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