Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's K-1 500 metres

The men's K-1 500 metres event was an individual kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics program that took place at Lake Lanier.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Antonio Rossi (ITA)	Knut Holmann (NOR)	Piotr Markiewicz (POL)

Results

Heats

26 competitors first raced in three heats. The top three finishers from each of the heats advanced directly to the semifinals with the rest competing in the repechages.

Heat 1
1.	Geza Magyar (ROU)	1:42.391	QS
2.	Piotr Markiewicz (POL)	1:42.731	QS
3.	Sergey Kaleshink (BLR)	1:43.279	QS
4.	Zoltán Antal (HUN)	1:43.343	QR
5.	Róbert Erban (SVK)	1:43.563	QR
6.	Yevgeny Yegorov (KAZ)	1:47.823	QR
7.	Ivan Lawler (GBR)	1:48.991	QR
8.	Tom Krantz (SWE)	1:49.695	QR
Heat 2
1.	Knut Holmann (NOR)	1:41.624	QS
2.	Cameron McFadezan (AUS)	1:42.160	QS
3.	Miguel García (ESP)	1:42.180	QS
4.	Renn Crichlow (CAN)	1:42.652	QR
5.	Sebastián Cuattrin (BRA)	1:44.328	QR
6.	Sergey Verlin (RUS)	1:45.328	QR
7.	Hain Helde (EST)	1:47.316	QR
8.	José Garcia (POR)	1:52.760	QR
9.	Koutoua Abia (CIV)	1:55.208	QR
Heat 3
1.	Antonio Rossi (ITA)	1:40.411	QS
2.	Lutz Liwowski (GER)	1:41.079	QS
3.	Mikko Kolehmainen (FIN)	1:41.171	QS
4.	Javier Correa (ARG)	1:42.691	QR
5.	Petar Merkov (BUL)	1:43.810	QR
6.	Mike Herbert (USA)	1:44.763	QR
7.	Vladyslav Tereshchenko (UKR)	1:45.623	QR
8.	Petar Sibinkić (YUG)	1:45.799	QR
9.	Aleksandr Popov (UZB)	1:56.827	QR

Repechages

The top four finishers from each of the repechages along with the fastest fifth-place finisher advanced to the semifinals.

Repechage 1
1.	Róbert Erban (SVK)	1:43.184	QS
2.	Mike Herbert (USA)	1:43.384	QS
3.	Javier Correa (ARG)	1:44.076	QS
4.	Sebastián Cuattrin (BRA)	1:44.204	QS
5.	Hain Helde (EST)	1:44.340
6.	Ivan Lawler (GBR)	1:45.220
7.	Petar Sibinkić (YUG)	1:46.532
8.	Koutoua Abia (CIV)	1:53.432
Repechage 2
1.	Petar Merkov (BUL)	1:42.851	QS
2.	Renn Crichlow (CAN)	1:43.055	QS
3.	Zoltán Antal (HUN)	1:43.343	QS
4.	Sergey Verlin (RUS)	1:43.359	QS
5.	Vladyslav Tereshchenko (UKR)	1:44.143	QS
6.	Yevgeny Yegorov (KAZ)	1:47.035
7.	Tom Krantz (SWE)	1:47.815
8.	Aleksandr Popov (UZB)	1:51.623
9.	José Garcia (POR)	1:55.103

Semifinals

The top four finishers in each of the two semifinals along with the fifth fastest advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1
1.	Antonio Rossi (ITA)	1:39.185	QF
2.	Knut Holmann (NOR)	1:39.929	QF
3.	Mikko Kolehmainen (FIN)	1:40.765	QF
4.	Róbert Erban (SVK)	1:41.425	QF
5.	Piotr Markiewicz (POL)	1:41.565	QF
6.	Renn Crichlow (CAN)	1:41.749
7.	Zoltán Antal (HUN)	1:41.873
8.	Sergey Kaleshink (BLR)	1:42.505
9.	Sebastián Cuattrin (BRA)	1:43.045
Semifinal 2
1.	Lutz Liwowski (GER)	1:40.319	QF
2.	Geza Magyar (ROU)	1:40.615	QF
3.	Miguel García (ESP)	1:40.687	QF
4.	Cameron McFadezan (AUS)	1:41.083	QF
5.	Sergey Verlin (RUS)	1:41.791
6.	Vladyslav Tereshchenko (UKR)	1:41.883
7.	Javier Correa (ARG)	1:42.071
8.	Mike Herbert (USA)	1:42.335
9.	Petar Merkov (BUL)	1:42.379

Final

The final was held on August 4.

	Antonio Rossi (ITA)	1:37.423
	Knut Holmann (NOR)	1:38.339
	Piotr Markiewicz (POL)	1:38.615
4.	Geza Magyar (ROU)	1:38.975
5.	Lutz Liwowski (GER)	1:39.307
6.	Miguel García (ESP)	1:40.047
7.	Mikko Kolehmainen (FIN)	1:40.331
8.	Róbert Erban (SVK)	1:40.407
9.	Cameron McFadezan (AUS)	1:41.023

References

• 1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. p. 166. (in English and French)
• Sports-reference.com 1996 men's K-1 500 m results
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Singles 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 470.