Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom K-1

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The men's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 11 and 12 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 (single kayak) event was raced by one-man kayaks through a whitewater course.

There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was added to the number of penalty points assessed. Touching any of the 21 slalom gates resulted in a 2-second penalty for each gate touched, while skipping any of the gates resulted in a 50-second penalty. The total times for the two preliminary runs were summed to give a score for the heats. The top 15 boats advanced to the semifinals.

The semifinals consisted of a single run. The field was narrowed to the top 10 scores from that run; those 10 boats advanced to the final. The times from the final were added to the semifinal score to give an overall total.

Schedule[]

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date Time Round
Monday, August 11, 2008 15:50-16:50 Heats 1st Run
Monday, August 11, 2008 17:42-18:40 Heats 2nd Run
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 15:40-16:40 Semifinal
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 17:17-18:00 Final

Medalists[]

Gold Silver Bronze
 Alexander Grimm (GER)  Fabien Lefèvre (FRA)  Benjamin Boukpeti (TOG)

Results[]

Heats[]

Rank Name Country Preliminary runs
Run 1 Run 2 Total
1 Peter Kauzer  Slovenia 81.79 84.70 166.49
2 Fabien Lefèvre  France 85.66 82.40 168.06
3 Daniele Molmenti  Italy 85.13 83.46 168.59
4 Alexander Grimm  Germany 84.90 84.36 169.26
5 Dariusz Popiela  Poland 85.51 85.51 171.02
6 Helmut Oblinger  Austria 86.21 85.54 171.75
7 Vavřinec Hradilek  Czech Republic 85.61 86.41 172.02
8 Benjamin Boukpeti  Togo 90.17 82.09 172.26
9 Campbell Walsh  Great Britain 86.72 85.72 172.44
10 Warwick Draper  Australia 86.28 86.30 172.58
11 Peter Cibák  Slovakia 86.26 86.69 172.95
12 Guillermo Díez-Canedo  Spain 84.95 88.07 173.02
13 David Ford  Canada 85.35 89.49 174.84
14 Robert Bouten  Netherlands 86.26 88.90 175.16
15 Eoin Rheinisch  Ireland 88.52 87.81 176.33
16 Pablo McCandless  Chile 88.24 88.40 176.64
17 Michael Kurt  Switzerland 87.58 91.08 178.66
18 Kazuki Yazawa  Japan 89.82 90.05 179.87
19 Atanas Nikolovski  Macedonia 92.63 88.56 181.19
20 Scott Parsons  United States 84.91 135.63 220.54
21 Ding Fuxue  China 87.47 140.92 228.39
  Qualified for semifinals

Semifinal[]

Rank Name Country Semifinal run
Penalty seconds Time
1 Benjamin Boukpeti  Togo 0 86.08
2 Warwick Draper  Australia 0 86.09
3 Fabien Lefèvre  France 0 87.21
4 Alexander Grimm  Germany 0 87.31
5 Robert Bouten  Netherlands 0 88.40
6 David Ford  Canada 0 88.46
7 Dariusz Popiela  Poland 0 88.49
8 Daniele Molmenti  Italy 2 88.56
9 Helmut Oblinger  Austria 0 88.69
10 Eoin Rheinisch  Ireland 0 88.85
11 Vavřinec Hradilek  Czech Republic 0 88.97
12 Peter Cibák  Slovakia 2 89.41
13 Peter Kauzer  Slovenia 4 89.42
14 Guillermo Díez-Canedo  Spain 2 90.06
15 Campbell Walsh  Great Britain 2 95.74
  Qualified for final

Final[]

Rank Name Country Semifinal run Final run Total
Penalty seconds Time Penalty seconds Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alexander Grimm  Germany 0 87.31 0 84.39 171.70
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Fabien Lefèvre  France 0 87.21 0 86.09 173.30
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Benjamin Boukpeti  Togo 0 86.08 0 87.37 173.45
4 Eoin Rheinisch  Ireland 0 88.85 0 88.06 176.91
5 Warwick Draper  Australia 0 86.09 0 91,76 177,85
6 David Ford  Canada 0 88.46 2 87,89 178,35
7 Helmut Oblinger  Austria 0 88.69 2 88,14 178,83
8 Dariusz Popiela  Poland 0 88.49 0 91,19 179,68
9 Robert Bouten  Netherlands 0 88.40 50 89,59 227,99
10 Daniele Molmenti  Italy 2 88.56 52 90,37 230,93

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