Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres

Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

The men's C-1 1000 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics program.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Martin Doktor (CZE)	Ivans Klementyev (LAT)	György Zala (HUN)

Results

Heats

18 competitors were entered. The top two finishers in each heat moved on to the final with the others relegated to the semifinals.

Heat 1
1.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	4:19.918	QF
2.	Patrick Schulze (GER)	4:21.114	QF
3.	Ivans Klementyev (LAT)	4:24.678	QS
4.	Victor Partnoi (ROU)	4:25.678	QS
5.	Arne Nielsson (DEN)	4:30.258	QS
6.	Pascal Sylvoz (FRA)	4:33.618	QS
7.	Ján Kubica (SVK)	4:33.810	QS
8.	Konstantin Negodyayev (KAZ)	4:40.842	QS
9.	Nikolay Bukhalov (BUL)	4:43.562	QS
Heat 2
1.	György Zala (HUN)	4:23.399	QF
2.	Roman Bundz (UKR)	4:26.555	QF
3.	Ivan Šabjan (CRO)	4:28.375	QS
4.	Vadim Salcutan (MDA)	4:32.095	QS
5.	José Manuel Crespo (ESP)	4:34.071	QS
6.	Gavin Maxwell (CAN)	4:36.971	QS
7.	Yevgeny Astanin (UZB)	4:39.839	QS
8.	Silvestre Pereira (POR)	4:42.715	QS
9.	Joseph Harper (USA)	4:45.467	QS

Semifinals

The top two finishers in each semifinal and the fastest third-place finisher advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1
1.	Ivan Šabjan (CRO)	4:13.901	QF
2.	Victor Partnoi (ROU)	4:14.333	QF
3.	Arne Nielsson (DEN)	4:14.573
4.	Ján Kubica (SVK)	4:22.773
5.	Konstantin Negodyayev (KAZ)	4:26.251
6.	Gavin Maxwell (CAN)	4:27.721
7.	Joseph Harper (USA)	4:39.949
Semifinal 2
1.	Ivans Klementyev (LAT)	4:10.455	QF
2.	Pascal Sylvoz (FRA)	4:11.483	QF
3.	Nikolay Bukhalov (BUL)	4:14.415	QF
4.	José Manuel Crespo (ESP)	4:15.939
5.	Vadim Salcutan (MDA)	4:16.639
6.	Yevgeny Astanin (UZB)	4:19.151
7.	Silvestre Pereira (POR)	4:31.199

Final

The final took place on August 3.

	Martin Doktor (CZE)	3:54.418
	Ivans Klementyev (LAT)	3:54.954
	György Zala (HUN)	3:56.366
4.	Patrick Schulze (GER)	3:57.778
5.	Pascal Sylvoz (FRA)	3:59.014
6.	Victor Partnoi (ROU)	3:59.858
7.	Roman Bundz (UKR)	4:02.078
8.	Ivan Šabjan (CRO)	4:04.066
9.	Nikolay Bukhalov (BUL)	4:13.034

Doktor led from start to finish.

References

• 1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. p. 173. (English) & (French)
• Sports-reference.com 1996 C-1 1000 m 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.