Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's K-1 500 metres

Canoeing at the 2008 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 women's K-1 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics will take place at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 event is raced in single-person kayaks.

Competition consists of three rounds: the heats, the semifinals, and the final. All boats compete in the heats. The top finisher in each of the three heats advances directly to the final, while the next six finishers (places 2 through 7) in each heat move on to the semifinals. The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals join the heats winners in the final.

Heats took place on August 19, semifinals on August 21, and final on August 23.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date	Time	Round
Tuesday, August 19, 2008	16:40-17:10	Heats
Thursday, August 21, 2008	16:20-16:40	Semifinals
Saturday, August 23, 2008	16:20-16:35	Final

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Inna Osypenko (UKR)	Josefa Idem (ITA)	Katrin Wagner-Augustin (GER)

Results

Heats

Qualification Rules: Winner->Finals, 2...6->Semifinals, Rest Out

Heat 1

Rank	Athletes	Country	Time	Notes
1	Katalin Kovács	Hungary	1:49.424	QF
2	Maria Teresa Portela	Spain	1:51.654	QS
3	Jennifer Hodson	South Africa	1:51.655	QS
4	Shinobu Kitamoto	Japan	1:52.148	QS
5	Chantal Meek	Australia	1:53.374	QS
6	Małgorzata Chojnacka	Poland	1:53.635	QS
7	Karen Furneaux	Canada	1:54.065	QS
8	Estefania Fontanini	Argentina	2:00.291
9	Khathia Bâ	Senegal	2:17.740

Heat 2

Rank	Athletes	Country	Time	Notes
1	Josefa Idem	Italy	1:48.864	QF
2	Zhong Hongyan	China	1:49.440	QS
3	Lucy Wainwright	Great Britain	1:50.103	QS
4	Carrie Johnson	United States	1:50.221	QS
5	Henriette Engel Hansen	Denmark	1:52.773	QS
6	Teresa Portela	Portugal	1:53.761	QS
7	Anne Rikala	Finland	1:54.294	QS
8	Tatsiana Fedarovich	Belarus	1:57.881

Heat 3

Rank	Athletes	Country	Time	Notes
1	Katrin Wagner-Augustin	Germany	1:48.875	QF
2	Inna Osypenko	Ukraine	1:49.776	QS
3	Špela Ponomarenko	Slovenia	1:49.973	QS
4	Sofia Paldanius	Sweden	1:51.110	QS
5	Yuliana Salkhova	Russia	1:51.628	QS
6	Erin Taylor	New Zealand	1:52.517	QS
7	Zulmarys Sánchez	Venezuela	1:57.728	QS
8	Lee Sun-Ja	South Korea	1:58.140

Semifinals

Qualification Rules: 1..3->Final, Rest Out

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athletes	Country	Time	Notes
1	Inna Osypenko	Ukraine	1:51.558	QF
2	Lucy Wainwright	Great Britain	1:52.580	QF
3	Jennifer Hodson	South Africa	1:53.209	QF
4	Carrie Johnson	United States	1:53.721
5	Sofia Paldanius	Sweden	1:53.797
6	Teresa Portela	Portugal	1:54.831
7	Chantal Meek	Australia	1:54.876
8	Małgorzata Chojnacka	Poland	1:55.619
9	Zulmarys Sánchez	Venezuela	2:02.764

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athletes	Country	Time	Notes
1	Zhong Hongyan	China	1:53.163	QF
2	Yuliana Salkhova	Russia	1:53.603	QF
3	Špela Ponomarenko	Slovenia	1:53.812	QF
4	Anne Rikala	Finland	1:54.025
5	Erin Taylor	New Zealand	1:54.300
6	Maria Teresa Portela	Spain	1:54.981
7	Karen Furneaux	Canada	1:55.145
8	Henriette Engel Hansen	Denmark	1:55.960
9	Shinobu Kitamoto	Japan	2:01.105

Final

Rank	Athletes	Country	Time	Notes
	Inna Osypenko	Ukraine	1:50.673
	Josefa Idem	Italy	1:50.677
	Katrin Wagner-Augustin	Germany	1:51.022
4	Katalin Kovács	Hungary	1:51.139
5	Zhong Hongyan	China	1:52.220
6	Špela Ponomarenko	Slovenia	1:52.363
7	Lucy Wainwright	Great Britain	1:53.102
8	Jennifer Hodson	South Africa	1:53.353
9	Yuliana Salkhova	Russia	1:53.973

References

• Sports-reference.com 2008 women's K-1 500 m results.
• Yahoo! August 19, 2008 sprint heat results. - accessed August 19, 2008.
• Yahoo! August 21, 2008 sprint semifinal results. - accessed August 21, 2008.
• Yahoo! sprint final results. - accessed August 23, 2008.