Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's K-1 1000 metres

Canoeing at the 2004 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

These are the results of the men's K-1 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The K-1 event is raced by single-man canoe sprint kayaks.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	Ben Fouhy (NZL)	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)

Heats

The 25 competitors first raced in three heats. The top finisher in each heat moved directly to the final, and the next six finishers in each heat moved to the semifinals. The heats were raced on August 23. Tim Brabants' time of 3:24.412 was the World's fastest until 2011.

Heat 1
1.	Ben Fouhy (NZL)	3:26.064	QF
2.	Roland Kökény (HUN)	3:27.904	QS
3.	Adam Seroczyński (POL)	3:28.464	QS
4.	Javier Correa (ARG)	3:28.492	QS
5.	Róbert Erban (SVK)	3:30.576	QS
6.	Alan van Coller (RSA)	3:32.516	QS
7.	Jernej Zupancic Regent (SLO)	3:32.552	QS
8.	Apostolos Papandreou (GRE)	3:41.664
9.	Tony Lespoir (SEY)	4:17.128
Heat 2
1.	Tim Brabants (GBR)	3:24.412	QF
2.	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	3:24.984	QS
3.	Roei Yellin (ISR)	3:34.036	QS
4.	Andrey Shkiotov (RUS)	3:35.708	QS
5.	Andrea Facchin (ITA)	3:36.492	QS
6.	Simon Faeh (SUI)	3:41.392	QS
7.	Benjamin Lewis (USA)	3:43.052	QS
8.	Danila Turchin (UZB)	3:48.140
Heat 3
1.	Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	3:25.150	QF
2.	Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	3:29.414	QS
3.	Emanuel Silva (POR)	3:29.854	QS
4.	Björn Goldschmidt (GER)	3:31.310	QS
5.	Sebastian Cuattrin (BRA)	3:36.506	QS
6.	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb (FRA)	3:36.882	QS
7.	Romas Petrukanecas (LTU)	3:37.758	QS
8.	Liu Haitao (CHN)	3:38.522

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the final. Fourth place and higher competitors were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 25.

Semifinal 1
1.	Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	3:28.417	QF
2.	Björn Goldschmidt (GER)	3:29.561	QF
3.	Roei Yellin (ISR)	3:30.005	QF
4.	Adam Seroczyński (POL)	3:30.201
5.	Alan van Coller (RSA)	3:32.893
6.	Róbert Erban (SVK)	3:33.481
7.	Andrey Shkiotov (RUS)	3:35.349
8.	Simon Faeh (SUI)	3:37.569
9.	Romas Petrukanecas (LTU)	3:39.493
Semifinal 2
1.	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	3:27.502	QF
2.	Roland Kökény (HUN)	3:29.134	QF
3.	Emanuel Silva (POR)	3:29.942	QF
4.	Javier Correa (ARG)	3:31.934
5.	Bâbak Amir-Tahmasseb (FRA)	3:32.582
6.	Jernej Zupancic Regent (SLO)	3:35.050
7.	Sebastian Cuattrin (BRA)	3:37.682
8.	Andrea Facchin (ITA)	3:39.510
9.	Benjamin Lewis (USA)	3:47.426

Final

The final was raced on August 27.

	Eirik Verås Larsen (NOR)	3:25.897
	Ben Fouhy (NZL)	3:27.413
	Adam van Koeverden (CAN)	3:28.218
4.	Nathan Baggaley (AUS)	3:28.310
5.	Tim Brabants (GBR)	3:30.552
6.	Roland Kökény (HUN)	3:31.121
7.	Emanuel Silva (POR)	3:33.862
8.	Björn Goldschmidt (GER)	3:34.381
9.	Roei Yellin (ISR)	3:43.485

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results (English), (French), & (Greek)
• Sports-reference.com 2004 K-1 1000 m results.
• Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results