2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-1 1000 metres

Men's K-1 1000 metres at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Lake Bagsværd
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	16–18 September
Competitors	24 from 24 nations
Winning time	3:25.82
Medalists
Fernando Pimenta    Portugal   Bálint Kopasz    Hungary   Aleh Yurenia    Belarus
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2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Canadian events
C-1 200m		women
C-1 500m	men	women
C-1 1000m	men
C-1 5000m	men	women
C-2 200m		women
	mixed
C-2 500m	men	women
C-2 1000m	men
C-4 500m	men	women
Kayak events
K-1 200m	men	women
K-1 500m	men	women
K-1 1000m	men	women
K-1 5000m	men	women
K-2 200m		women
	mixed
K-2 500m	men	women
K-2 1000m	men
K-4 500m	men	women
Paracanoe events
KL1	men	women
KL2	men	women
KL3	men	women
VL1	men	women
VL2	men	women
VL3	men	women
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The men's K-1 1000 metres competition at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen took place on Lake Bagsværd.^[1]

Schedule[]

The schedule was as follows:^[2]

Date	Time	Round
Thursday 16 September 2021	10:20	Heats
	18:19	Semifinals
Saturday 18 September 2021	09:46	Final B
	11:22	Final A

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results[]

Heats[]

Heat winners advanced directly to the A final.
The next six fastest boats in each heat advanced to the semifinals.^[3][4][5]

Heat 1[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	3:46.13	QA
2	Rafał Rosolski	Poland	3:48.67	QS
3	Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	3:50.03	QS
4		Great Britain	3:52.33	QS
5	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	3:52.35	QS
6		Finland	4:03.23	QS
–	Jošt Zakrajšek	Slovenia	DNS

Heat 2[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fernando Pimenta	Portugal	3:38.52	QA
2	Martin Hiller	Germany	3:39.74	QS
3	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	3:44.86	QS
4	Peter Gelle	Slovakia	3:45.06	QS
5		New Zealand	3:45.14	QS
6		Czech Republic	3:46.37	QS
7	Simon McTavish	Canada	3:46.99	QS
8		Croatia	3:48.47
9		Trinidad and Tobago	4:36.85

Heat 3[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Aleh Yurenia	Belarus	3:45.45	QA
2	Bojan Zdelar	Serbia	3:48.70	QS
3		Spain	3:48.97	QS
4		Italy	3:50.40	QS
5	Oleg Siniavin	RCF	3:52.17	QS
6		Netherlands	3:53.12	QS
7		Mexico	4:15.10	QS
–	Mohamed Mrabet	Tunisia	DNS

Semifinals[]

Qualification was as follows:

The fastest three boats in each semi advanced to the A final.
The next four fastest boats in each semi, plus the fastest remaining boat advanced to the B final.^[6][7]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1		Italy	3:38.72	QA
2	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	3:39.85	QA
3		Great Britain	3:40.54	QA
4	Simon McTavish	Canada	3:43.09	QB
5	Rafał Rosolski	Poland	3:43.29	QB
6		New Zealand	3:43.52	QB
7		Netherlands	3:44.84	QB
8		Spain	3:46.30	qB
9		Finland	3:46.32

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Martin Hiller	Germany	3:39.78	QA
2	Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	3:41.68	QA
3	Bojan Zdelar	Serbia	3:42.04	QA
4	Oleg Siniavin	RCF	3:42.83	QB
5	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	3:43.87	QB
6	Peter Gelle	Slovakia	3:52.61	QB
7		Czech Republic	4:12.83	QB
8		Mexico	4:30.45

Finals[]

Final B[]

Competitors in this final raced for positions 10 to 18.^[8]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time
1		Spain	3:35.31
2		New Zealand	3:36.13
3	Simon McTavish	Canada	3:36.49
4		Czech Republic	3:36.61
5	Rafał Rosolski	Poland	3:38.12
6	Oleg Siniavin	RCF	3:41.14
7	Peter Gelle	Slovakia	3:43.63
8		Netherlands	3:45.86
9	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	3:50.98

Final A[]

Competitors raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[9]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time
	Fernando Pimenta	Portugal	3:25.82
	Bálint Kopasz	Hungary	3:26.49
	Aleh Yurenia	Belarus	3:30.47
4		Italy	3:31.26
5	Martin Hiller	Germany	3:32.62
6	Andrej Olijnik	Lithuania	3:33.05
7	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	3:35.20
8		Great Britain	3:35.63
9	Bojan Zdelar	Serbia	3:36.05

References[]