Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres

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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
	Andreas Dittmer	Germany	3:54.379
	Ledis Balceiro	Cuba	3:56.071
	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. (in English and 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.