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

The men's C-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 11 and 12 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The C-1 (solo canoe) event was raced by one-man canoes through a whitewater course.

There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was added to the number of penalty points assessed. Touching any of the 21 slalom gates resulted in a 2-second penalty for each gate touched, while skipping any of the gates resulted in a 50-second penalty. The total times for the two preliminary runs were summed to give a score for the heats. The top 12 boats advanced to the semifinals.

The semifinals consisted of a single run. The field was narrowed to the top 8 scores from that run; those 8 boats advanced to the final. The times from the final were added to the semifinal score to give an overall total.

Schedule edit

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date Time Round
Monday, August 11, 2008 15:00-15:50 Heats 1st Run
Monday, August 11, 2008 16:52-17:40 Heats 2nd Run
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 15:00-15:40 Semifinal
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 16:47-17:15 Final

Medalists edit

  Gold   Silver   Bronze
  Michal Martikán (SVK)   David Florence (GBR)   Robin Bell (AUS)

Results edit

Rank Name Country Preliminary Round Semifinal Final
Run 1 Run 2 Total Rank Time Rank Time Total
  Michal Martikán   Slovakia 85.13 85.02 170.15 1 88.92 1 87.73 176.65
  David Florence   Great Britain 89.47 82.16 171.63 3 90.46 4 88.15 178.61
  Robin Bell   Australia 88.86 87.59 176.45 7 91.16 5 89.43 180.59
4 Ander Elosegi   Spain 87.00 85.47 172.47 5 92.19 7 89.93 182.12
5 Stanislav Ježek   Czech Republic 85.69 86.40 172.09 4 89.85 2 92.44 182.29
6 Benn Fraker   United States 91.97 87.47 179.44 10 92.27 8 90.87 183.14
7 Christos Tsakmakis   Greece 91.53 86.01 177.54 8 92.18 6 94.49 186.67
8 Krzysztof Bieryt   Poland 95.39 87.90 183.29 12 90.08 3 110.13 200.21
9 Tony Estanguet   France 89.99 86.09 176.08 6 93.92 9
10 Alexander Lipatov   Russia 87.65 90.51 178.16 9 94.16 10
11 Feng Liming   China 91.44 90.55 181.99 11 94.64 11
12 Jan Benzien   Germany 85.92 84.58 170.50 2 95.15 12
13 James Cartwright   Canada 93.83 90.80 184.63 13
14 Takuya Haneda   Japan 94.08 92.24 186.32 14
15 Emir Mujčinović   Croatia 95.41 93.90 189.31 15
16 Siboniso Cele   South Africa 162.51 100.42 262.93 16

References edit