Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres

The men's C-1 1000 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics program.

Medallists Gold Silver Bronze

Results

Heats 18 competitors were entered. The top two finishers in each heat moved on to the final with the others relegated to the semifinals.

Heat 1 Rank Canoer Country Time Notes1.Martin Doktor 4:19.918 QF2.Patrick Schulze 4:21.114 QF3.Ivans Klementyev 4:24.678 QS4.Victor Partnoi 4:25.678 QS5.Arne Nielsson 4:30.258 QS6.Pascal Sylvoz 4:33.618 QS7.Ján Kubica 4:33.810 QS8.Konstantin Negodyayev 4:40.842 QS9.Nikolay Bukhalov 4:43.562 QS

Heat 2 Rank Canoer Country Time Notes1.György Zala 4:23.399 QF2.Roman Bundz 4:26.555 QF3.Ivan Šabjan 4:28.375 QS4.Vadim Salcutan 4:32.095 QS5.José Manuel Crespo 4:34.071 QS6.Gavin Maxwell 4:36.971 QS7.Yevgeny Astanin 4:39.839 QS8.Silvestre Pereira 4:42.715 QS9.Joseph Harper 4:45.467 QS

Semifinals The top two finishers in each semifinal and the fastest third-place finisher advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1 Rank Canoer Country Time Notes1.Ivan Šabjan 4:13.901 QF2.Victor Partnoi 4:14.333 QF3.Arne Nielsson 4:14.573 4.Ján Kubica 4:22.773 5.Konstantin Negodyayev 4:26.251 6.Gavin Maxwell 4:27.721 7.Joseph Harper 4:39.949

Semifinal 2 Rank Canoer Country Time Notes1.Ivans Klementyev 4:10.455 QF2.Pascal Sylvoz 4:11.483 QF3.Nikolay Bukhalov 4:14.415 QF4.José Manuel Crespo 4:15.939 5.Vadim Salcutan 4:16.639 6.Yevgeny Astanin 4:19.151 7.Silvestre Pereira 4:31.199

Final The final took place on August 3.

Rank Canoer Country Time Notes Martin Doktor 3:54.418Ivans Klementyev 3:54.954György Zala 3:56.3664.Patrick Schulze 3:57.7785.Pascal Sylvoz 3:59.0146.Victor Partnoi 3:59.8587.Roman Bundz 4:02.0788.Ivan Šabjan 4:04.0669.Nikolay Bukhalov 4:13.034

Doktor led from start to finish.

References 1996 Summer Olympics official report Volume 3. p. 173. Sports-reference.com 1996 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.