Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 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 1000 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
Andreas Dittmer (GER)	Ledis Balceiro (CUB)	Stephen Giles (CAN)

Results

Heats

18 competitors were entered on 26 September. The top three finishers in each heat moved on to the final. Fourth through seventh-place finishers from each heat and the fastest eighth-place finisher advanced to the semifinal

Heat 1 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000
Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Qual.
1	Ledis Balceiro	Cuba	3:55.120	QF
2	Stephen Giles	Canada	3:55.396	QF
3	Peter Páleš	Slovakia	3:58.036	QF
4	Efims Klementjevs	Latvia	3:58.840	QS
5	Nikolay Bukhalov	Bulgaria	3:59.092	QS
6	Maxim Opalev	Russia	4:00.568	QS
7	György Zala	Hungary	4:00.754	QS
8	Kaysar Nurmaganbetov	Kazakhstan	4:01.438	QS
9	Nikica Ljubek	Croatia	4:10.954

Heat 2 of 2 Date: Tuesday 26 September 2000
Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Qual.
1	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	3:53.962	QF
2	Martin Doktor	Czech Republic	3:55.216	QF
3	Christian Frederiksen	Norway	3:55.378	QF
4	Éric le Leuch	France	3:55.726	QS
5	Florin Huidu	Romania	3:56.770	QS
6	Andreas Kilingaridis	Greece	4:01.042	QS
7	José Manuel Crespo	Spain	4:04.628	QS
8	Jordan Malloch	United States	4:05.440
9	Daniel Jędraszko	Poland	4:25.726

Overall Results Heats

Heats Overall Results
Place	Athlete	Nation	Heat	Place	Time	Qual.
1	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	2	1	3:53.962	QF
2	Ledis Balceiro	Cuba	1	1	3:55.120	QF
3	Martin Doktor	Czech Republic	2	2	3:55.216	QF
4	Christian Frederiksen	Norway	2	3	3:55.378	QF
5	Stephen Giles	Canada	1	2	3:55.396	QF
6	Éric le Leuch	France	2	4	3:55.726	QS
7	Florin Huidu	Romania	2	5	3:56.770	QS
8	Peter Páleš	Slovakia	1	3	3:58.036	QF
9	Efims Klementjevs	Latvia	1	4	3:58.840	QS
10	Nikolay Bukhalov	Bulgaria	1	5	3:59.092	QS
11	Maxim Opalev	Russia	1	6	4:00.568	QS
12	György Zala	Hungary	1	7	4:00.754	QS
13	Andreas Kilingaridis	Greece	2	6	4:01.042	QS
14	Kaysar Nurmaganbetov	Kazakhstan	1	8	4:01.438	QS
15	José Manuel Crespo	Spain	2	7	4:04.628	QS
16	Jordan Malloch	United States	2	8	4:05.440
17	Nikica Ljubek	Croatia	1	9	4:10.954
18	Daniel Jędraszko	Poland	2	9	4:25.726

Semifinal

The top three finishers in the semifinal advanced to the final.

Semifinal Date: Thursday 28 September 2000
Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Qual.
1	Maxim Opalev	Russia	4:01.222	QF
2	Efims Klementjevs	Latvia	4:01.300	QF
3	Éric le Leuch	France	4:02.038	QF
4	György Zala	Hungary	4:03.226
5	Florin Huidu	Romania	4:03.910
6	José Manuel Crespo	Spain	4:04.042
7	Kaysar Nurmagambetov	Kazakhstan	4:05.206
8	Nikolay Bukhalov	Bulgaria	4:05.236
	Andreas Kilingaridis	Greece	DISQ

Kilingaridis's disqualification was not disclosed in the official report.

Final

Final Date: Saturday 30 September 2000
Place	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	3:54.379
2	Ledis Balceiro	Cuba	3:56.071
3	Stephen Giles	Canada	3:56.437
4	Éric le Leuch	France	3:57.217
5	Christian Frederiksen	Norway	3:58.159
6	Maxim Opalev	Russia	4:04.042
7	Efims Klementjevs	Latvia	4:00.931
8	Martin Doktor	Czech Republic	4:02.335
9	Peter Páleš	Slovakia	4:03.091

References

• 2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results. (English) & (French)
• Sports-reference.com 2000 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.