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Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 500 metres

The men's C-1 500 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.

Medallists edit

  Gold   Silver   Bronze
  György Kolonics (HUN)   Maxim Opalev (RUS)   Andreas Dittmer (GER)

Results edit

Heats edit

18 competitors were entered on 27 September. The top three finishers in both heats moved on to the final. Fourth through seventh-place finishers and the fastest eighth-place finisher advanced to the semifinal.

Heat 1 of 2
Date: Wednesday 27 September 2000
Place Athlete Nation Time Qual.
1 Maxim Opalev   Russia 1:51.048 QF
2 György Kolonics   Hungary 1:51.492 QF
3 Slavomír Kňazovický   Slovakia 1:52.146 QF
4 Florin Huidu   Romania 1:53.076 QS
5 José Manuel Crespo   Spain 1:53.862 QS
6 Christian Frederiksen   Norway 1:54.366 QS
7 Aleksandr Maseykov   Belarus 1:54.468 SQ
8 Kaysar Nurmaganbetov   Kazakhstan 1:55.422 SQ
9 Jordan Malloch   United States 1:58.938
Heat 2 of 2
Date: Wednesday 27 September 2000
Place Athlete Nation Time Qual.
1 Andreas Dittmer   Germany 1:50.340 QF
2 Martin Doktor   Czech Republic 1:51.174 QF
3 Ledis Balceiro   Cuba 1:51.918 QF
4 Nikolay Bukhalov   Bulgaria 1:51.996 QS
5 Maxime Boilard   Canada 1:52.764 QS
6 Michał Śliwiński   Ukraine 1:53.682 QS
7 Éric le Leuch   France 1:53.934 SQ
8 Andreas Kilingaridis   Greece 1:57.858
9 Michał Gajownik   Poland 2:04.704

Overall Results Heats

Heats
Overall Results
Place Athlete Nation Heat Place Time Qual.
1 Andreas Dittmer   Germany 2 1 1:50.340 QF
2 Maxim Opalev   Russia 1 1 1:51.048 QF
3 Martin Doktor   Czech Republic 2 2 1:51.174 QF
4 György Kolonics   Hungary 1 2 1:51.492 QF
5 Ledis Balceiro   Cuba 2 3 1:51.918 QF
6 Nikolay Bukhalov   Bulgaria 2 4 1:51.996 QS
7 Slavomír Kňazovický   Slovakia 1 3 1:52.146 QF
8 Maxime Boilard   Canada 2 5 1:52.764 QS
9 Florin Huidu   Romania 1 4 1:53.076 QS
10 Michał Śliwiński   Ukraine 2 6 1:53.682 QS
11 José Manuel Crespo   Spain 1 5 1:53.862 QS
12 Éric le Leuch   France 2 7 1:53.934 QS
13 Christian Frederiksen   Norway 1 6 1:54.366 QS
14 Aleksandr Maseykov   Belarus 1 7 1:54.468 SQ
15 Kaysar Nurmaganbetov   Kazakhstan 1 8 1:55.422 SQ
16 Andreas Kilingaridis   Greece 2 8 1:57.858
17 Jordan Malloch   United States 1 9 1:58.938
18 Michał Gajownik   Poland 2 9 2:04.704

Semifinal edit

A semifinal was held on 29 September with the top three finishers advancing to the final.

Heat 1 of 1
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Athlete Nation Time Qual.
1 Maxime Boilard   Canada 1:52.071 QF
2 Nikolay Bukhalov   Bulgaria 1:52.371 QF
3 Michał Śliwiński   Ukraine 1:52.461 QF
4 Florin Huidu   Romania 1:53.277
5 Christian Frederiksen   Norway 1:53.661
6 Kaysar Nurmaganbetov   Kazakhstan 1:54.465
7 José Manuel Crespo   Spain 1:54.765
8 Aleksandr Maseykov   Belarus 1:55.035
9 Éric le Leuch   France 1:56.907

Final edit

The final took place on 1 October.

Heat 1 of 1
Date: Sunday 1 October 2000
Place Athlete Nation Time
  György Kolonics   Hungary 2:24.813
  Maxim Opalev   Russia 2:25.809
  Andreas Dittmer   Germany 2:27.591
4 Maxime Boilard   Canada 2:29.259
5 Slavomír Kňazovický   Slovakia 2:29.613
6 Ledis Balceiro   Cuba 2:32.229
7 Michał Śliwiński   Ukraine 2:33.129
8 Martin Doktor   Czech Republic 2:37.467
9 Nikolay Bukhalov   Bulgaria 2:44.829

Kolonics, initially a C-2 canoer, moved to C-1 500 m when he and his partner Csaba Horváth failed to qualify in the Hungarian Olympic trials. His prior success in this event was a silver at the 1993 world championships, but he was able to upset then two-time defending event world champion Opalev (The Russian has won this event world championship five times as of 2008.) in the final. Before his 2008 death, Kolonics would win two more world championship silvers in the event, earning them in 2001 and 2002.

References edit

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