Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres

The men's C-1 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing between August 18 and 22. The C-1 event is raced in single-man sprint canoes.

Competition consists of three rounds: the heats, the semifinals, and the final. All boats compete in the heats. The top finisher in each of the three heats advances directly to the final, while the next six finishers (places 2 through 7) in each heat move on to the semifinals. The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals join the heats winners in the final.

Heats took place on August 18, semifinals on August 20, and the final on August 22.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Attila Vajda (HUN)	David Cal (ESP)	Thomas Hall (CAN)

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, August 18, 2008	16:00-16:30	Heats
Wednesday, August 20, 2008	15:50-16:10	Semifinals
Friday, August 22, 2008	15:45-16:00	Final

Results

Heats

Qualification Rules: 1->Final, 2..7->Semifinals, Rest Out

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Attila Vajda	Hungary	3:55.319	QF
2	Florin Georgian Mironcic	Romania	3:57.538	QS
3	Marcin Grzybowski	Poland	4:02.010	QS
4	Miķelis Ežmalis	Latvia	4:13.777	QS
5	Torsten Lachmann	Australia	4:15.188	QS
6	Everardo Cristóbal	Mexico	4:15.280	QS
7	Fortunato Luis Pacavira	Angola	4:39.538	QS
8	Sean Pangelinan	Guam	4:49.284

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Vadim Menkov	Uzbekistan	3:56.793	QF
2	Mathieu Goubel	France	3:56.972	QS
3	Marián Ostrčil	Slovakia	4:00.191	QS
4	Aliaksandr Zhukouski	Belarus	4:01.380	QS
5	Viktor Melantiev	Russia	4:03.316	QS
6	Nivalter Santos	Brazil	4:17.407	QS
7	Mikhail Yemelyanov	Kazakhstan	4:19.259	QS

Heat 3

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	David Cal	Spain	3:58.756	QF
2	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	4:00.505	QS
3	Aldo Pruna Díaz	Cuba	4:02.351	QS
4	Thomas Hall	Canada	4:05.198	QS
5	Andreas Kiligkaridis	Greece	4:18.488	QS
6	Yuriy Cheban	Ukraine	4:23.188	QS
7	Calvin Mokoto	South Africa	4:33.887	QS

Semifinals

Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, Rest Out

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Thomas Hall	Canada	3:58.820	QF
2	Florin Georgian Mironcic	Romania	3:59.664	QF
3	Aldo Pruna Díaz	Cuba	4:01.745	QF
4	Viktor Melantiev	Russia	4:02.854
5	Marián Ostrčil	Slovakia	4:03.696
6	Everardo Cristóbal	Mexico	4:04.267
7	Yuriy Cheban	Ukraine	4:06.095
8	Mikhail Yemelyanov	Kazakhstan	4:16.813
9	Miķelis Ežmalis	Latvia	4:16.820

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mathieu Goubel	France	3:57.607	QF
2	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	3:58.595	QF
3	Aliaksandr Zhukouski	Belarus	3:58.851	QF
4	Marcin Grzybowski	Poland	4:00.226
5	Andreas Kiligkaridis	Greece	4:04.627
6	Torsten Lachmann	Australia	4:09.792
7	Nivalter Santos	Brazil	4:12.556
8	Calvin Mokoto	South Africa	4:26.650
9	Fortunato Luis Pacavira	Angola	4:40.697

Final

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
	Attila Vajda	Hungary	3:50.467
	David Cal	Spain	3:52.751
	Thomas Hall	Canada	3:53.653
4	Vadim Menkov	Uzbekistan	3:54.237
5	Aliaksandr Zhukouski	Belarus	3:55.645
6	Florin Georgian Mironcic	Romania	3:57.876
7	Mathieu Goubel	France	3:57.889
8	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	3:57.894
9	Aldo Pruna Díaz	Cuba	3:59.087

Menkov led for the early part of the race, but was passed at the 750 meter mark by defending Olympic champion Cal and defending world champion Vajda. The Hungarian pulled away in the final 150 meters to win his gold medal which he dedicated to his fallen teammate György Kolonics, who had died a month earlier training for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

References

• Sports-reference.com 2008 C-1 1000 m results.
• Yahoo! August 18, 2008 sprint heat results. - accessed August 19, 2008.
• Yahoo! August 20, 2008 sprint semifinal results. - accessed August 20, 2008.
• Yahoo! August 22, 2008 sprint final results. - accessed August 22, 2008.
• YouTube.com C-1 1000 m Eurosport final. - accessed 27 October 2009.