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

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

Medallists

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

Results

Heats

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

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

The final took place on 1 October.

Heat 1 of 1
Date: Sunday 1 October 2000
Place Athlete Nation Time
1 György Kolonics Hungary 2:24.813
2 Maxim Opalev Russia 2:25.809
3 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

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