2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships – Men's K-1 500 metres

Men's K-1 500 metres at the 2021 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Venue	Lake Bagsværd
Location	Copenhagen, Denmark
Dates	17–19 September
Competitors	30 from 30 nations
Winning time	1:38.87
Medalists
Mikita Borykau    Belarus   João Ribeiro    Portugal   Moritz Florstedt    Germany
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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-1 500 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
Friday 17 September 2021	11:20	Heats
Saturday 18 September 2021	14:06	Semifinals
Sunday 19 September 2021	10:42	Final B
	12:30	Final A

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

Results[]

Heats[]

The six fastest boats in each heat, plus the three fastest remaining boats advanced to the semifinals.^[3][4][5][6]

Heat 1[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1		Italy	1:43.34	QS
2	Pelayo Roza	Spain	1:43.48	QS
3		Croatia	1:44.60	QS
4		Poland	1:45.22	QS
5	Juan Ignacio Cáceres	Argentina	1:46.22	QS
6	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	1:49.23	QS
7		Cyprus	1:52.20	qS

Heat 2[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Moritz Florstedt	Germany	1:43.51	QS
2		Denmark	1:44.31	QS
3		RCF	1:44.40	QS
4		Israel	1:46.40	QS
5		Singapore	1:46.50	QS
6	Ričardas Nekriošius	Lithuania	1:46.64	QS
7		Trinidad and Tobago	2:04.16
–	Mohamed Mrabet	Tunisia	DNS

Heat 3[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bojan Zdelar	Serbia	1:42.12	QS
2	João Ribeiro	Portugal	1:43.18	QS
3		Great Britain	1:43.55	QS
4		France	1:43.72	QS
5	Lars Magne Ullvang	Norway	1:43.80	QS
6		South Africa	1:44.74	QS
7		Netherlands	1:46.99	qS
8		Mexico	1:59.82

Heat 4[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1		Czech Republic	1:43.60	QS
2		Hungary	1:43.86	QS
3	Mikita Borykau	Belarus	1:45.83	QS
4		Sweden	1:46.92	QS
5		Canada	1:49.76	QS
6		Finland	1:55.10	QS
7		Greece	2:01.65	qS

Semifinals[]

Qualification in each semi was as follows:

The fastest three boats advanced to the A final.
The next three fastest boats advanced to the B final.^[7][8][9]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Moritz Florstedt	Germany	1:39.96	QA
2		Czech Republic	1:40.96	QA
3	Pelayo Roza	Spain	1:41.27	QA
4		France	1:41.39	QB
5		Great Britain	1:41.42	QB
6		Netherlands	1:43.04	QB
7	Ričardas Nekriošius	Lithuania	1:44.26
8	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	1:45.39
9		Canada	1:49.20

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bojan Zdelar	Serbia	1:40.75	QA
2		South Africa	1:42.11	QA
3		Hungary	1:42.50	QA
4		RCF	1:43.00	QB
5	Juan Ignacio Cáceres	Argentina	1:43.12	QB
6		Croatia	1:43.13	QB
7		Israel	1:43.68
8		Sweden	1:44.60
9		Cyprus	1:49.43

Semifinal 3[]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mikita Borykau	Belarus	1:40.96	QA
2	João Ribeiro	Portugal	1:41.08	QA
3	Lars Magne Ullvang	Norway	1:41.34	QA
4		Italy	1:41.41	QB
5		Denmark	1:42.89	QB
6		Poland	1:43.24	QB
7		Singapore	1:45.21
8		Finland	1:45.54
9		Greece	1:56.22

Finals[]

Final B[]

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

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time
1		Italy	1:41.28
2		France	1:41.31
3		Great Britain	1:41.93
4		Denmark	1:42.49
5		RCF	1:43.35
6		Poland	1:43.71
7	Juan Ignacio Cáceres	Argentina	1:43.72
8		Netherlands	1:44.34
9		Croatia	1:44.38

Final A[]

Competitors in this final raced for positions 1 to 9, with medals going to the top three.^[11]

Rank	Kayaker	Country	Time
	Mikita Borykau	Belarus	1:38.87
	João Ribeiro	Portugal	1:39.88
	Moritz Florstedt	Germany	1:40.04
4	Bojan Zdelar	Serbia	1:40.25
5	Pelayo Roza	Spain	1:41.45
6	Lars Magne Ullvang	Norway	1:41.63
7		Hungary	1:42.05
8		South Africa	1:45.77
9		Czech Republic	2:12.75

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