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
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 Rank Canoer Country Time Notes 1 Ledis Balceiro 3:55.120 QF 2 Stephen Giles 3:55.396 QF 3 Peter Páleš 3:58.036 QF 4 Efims Klementjevs 3:58.840 QS 5 Nikolay Bukhalov 3:59.092 QS 6 Maxim Opalev 4:00.568 QS 7 György Zala 4:00.754 QS 8 Kaysar Nurmaganbetov 4:01.438 QS 9 Nikica Ljubek 4:10.954
Heat 2 Rank Canoer Country Time Notes 1 Andreas Dittmer 3:53.962 QF 2 Martin Doktor 3:55.216 QF 3 Christian Frederiksen 3:55.378 QF 4 Éric le Leuch 3:55.726 QS 5 Florin Huidu 3:56.770 QS 6 Andreas Kilingaridis 4:01.042 QS 7 José Manuel Crespo 4:04.628 QS 8 Jordan Malloch 4:05.440 9 Daniel Jędraszko 4:25.726
Semifinal The top three finishers in the semifinal advanced to the final.
Semifinal Rank Canoer Country Time Notes 1 Maxim Opalev 4:01.222 QF 2 Efims Klementjevs 4:01.300 QF 3 Éric le Leuch 4:02.038 QF 4 György Zala 4:03.226 5 Florin Huidu 4:03.910 6 José Manuel Crespo 4:04.042 7 Kaysar Nurmagambetov 4:05.206 8 Nikolay Bukhalov 4:05.236 Andreas Kilingaridis DISQ
Kilingaridis's disqualification was not disclosed in the official report.
Final
Rank Canoer Country Time Notes Andreas Dittmer 3:54.379 Ledis Balceiro 3:56.071 Stephen Giles 3:56.437 4 Éric le Leuch 3:57.217 5 Christian Frederiksen 3:58.159 6 Maxim Opalev 3:58.813 7 Efims Klementjevs 4:00.931 8 Martin Doktor 4:02.335 9 Peter Páleš 4:03.091
References 2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results. 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.