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Kayak Singles, 500 metres, Women

Date24 – 28 August 2004
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympiako Kopelatodramio Skhoinia, Schinias National Park
Participants23 from 23 countries

Italy’s Josefa Idem entered the 2004 Summer Olympics, her sixth, as the defending Olympic champion and the 2001 World Champion in the women’s K-1 500, but most of the other recent major international titles in the event had gone to Katalin Kovács of Hungary. Kovács, however, did not take part in this event in Athens and left the task of representing her nation to Natasa Janics, the 2004 European champion. Canada’s Caroline Brunet, runner-up at the last two Olympics and World Championships, was also a contender. Bruent defeated Idem in the opening heats and advanced directly to the final, as did Janics and Slovakia’s Marcela Erbanová, the other heat winners. Idem won the first semi-final heat, while Germany’s Katrin Wagner, the 2001 European bronze medalist, took the other. Janics dominated the medal round, winning gold almost two seconds ahead of Idem. The Italian, who earned silver, came in slightly less than a second ahead of Brunet, while everyone else was over two seconds behind Idem. Janics, meanwhile, would become a double Olympic champion just over an hour later, when she and Kovács won the K-2 500.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCR1SFFinal
1131Natasa JanicsHUN1:49.870 (1 h1)1:47.741 (1)Gold
2140Josefa IdemITA1:50.466 (2 h2)1:50.844 (1 h2)1:49.729 (2)Silver
350Caroline BrunetCAN1:50.366 (1 h2)1:50.601 (3)Bronze
4115Katrin WagnerGER1:53.234 (2 h1)1:52.630 (1 h1)1:52.557 (4)
5207Marcela ErbanováSVK1:53.508 (1 h3)1:52.685 (5)
6137Larisa PesyakhovichISR1:54.234 (3 h1)1:55.096 (2 h2)1:53.089 (6)
798Ludy HardyGBR1:54.518 (4 h2)1:56.432 (3 h2)1:53.717 (7)
890Jenni HonkanenFIN1:55.244 (4 h3)1:53.050 (2 h1)1:53.937 (8)
959Li TingCHN1:55.474 (4 h1)1:53.598 (3 h1)1:54.473 (9)
4 h1 r2/314Petra SantyBEL1:52.834 (3 h2)1:54.534 (4 h1)
4 h2 r2/3238Carrie JohnsonUSA1:57.708 (5 h3)1:56.712 (4 h2)
5 h1 r2/3117Athina-Theodora AlexopoulouGRE1:54.828 (3 h3)1:54.950 (5 h1)
5 h2 r2/394Nathalie MarieFRA1:57.342 (5 h1)1:57.944 (5 h2)
6 h1 r2/3196Olga KostenkoRUS1:58.520 (6 h3)1:55.766 (6 h1)
6 h2 r2/3240Yuliya BorzovaUZB1:56.586 (6 h2)1:59.560 (6 h2)
7 h1 r2/373Michala StrnadováCZE1:55.806 (5 h2)1:56.154 (7 h1)
7 h2 r2/3143Miyuki ShirataJPN2:00.860 (7 h3)2:03.076 (7 h2)
8 h1 r2/36Amanda RankinAUS1:56.678 (7 h2)1:56.198 (8 h1)
8 h2 r2/3247Đòàn Thị CáchVIE2:06.126 (7 h1)2:06.692 (8 h2)
9 h1 r2/32María Fernanda LauroARG1:59.474 (6 h1)2:00.198 (9 h1)
AC h2 r2/3167Aneta PastuszkaPOL1:53.840 (2 h3)[1:53.020] (DQ h2)
8 h2 r1/3135Sarce AronggearINA2:03.790 (8 h2)
AC h1 r1/3149Nataliya SergeyevaKAZ– (DQ h1)

Round One

Date24 August 2004 — 9:40
FormatWinner of each heat advanced to the final. Finishers 2-7 advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time9:40
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Natasa JanicsHUN1:49.87054.31 (1)55.560 (1)Q
26Katrin WagnerGER1:53.23457.08 (5)56.154 (2)q
31Larisa PesyakhovichISR1:54.23455.12 (2)59.114 (3)q
44Li TingCHN1:55.47455.35 (3)1:00.124 (4)q
53Nathalie MarieFRA1:57.34256.32 (4)1:01.022 (5)q
62María Fernanda LauroARG1:59.47458.14 (6)1:01.334 (6)q
78Đòàn Thị CáchVIE2:06.1261:02.74 (7)1:03.386 (7)q
DQ7Nataliya SergeyevaKAZ– (–)– (–)1

Heat #2

Time9:50
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Caroline BrunetCAN1:50.36654.99 (2)55.376 (1)Q
24Josefa IdemITA1:50.46654.62 (1)55.846 (2)q
36Petra SantyBEL1:52.83455.30 (3)57.534 (3)q
47Ludy HardyGBR1:54.51856.61 (6)57.908 (4)q
53Michala StrnadováCZE1:55.80656.09 (4)59.716 (6)q
62Yuliya BorzovaUZB1:56.58657.24 (7)59.346 (5)q
78Amanda RankinAUS1:56.67856.21 (5)1:00.468 (7)q
81Sarce AronggearINA2:03.79058.21 (8)1:05.580 (8)

Heat #3

Time10:05
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
17Marcela ErbanováSVK1:53.50856.73 (3)56.778 (2)Q
25Aneta PastuszkaPOL1:53.84056.37 (1)57.470 (3)q
31Athina-Theodora AlexopoulouGRE1:54.82856.52 (2)58.308 (4)q
43Jenni HonkanenFIN1:55.24459.51 (7)55.734 (1)q
54Carrie JohnsonUSA1:57.70857.71 (4)59.998 (5)q
66Olga KostenkoRUS1:58.52057.84 (5)1:00.680 (6)q
72Miyuki ShirataJPN2:00.86058.81 (6)1:02.050 (7)q

Semi-Finals

Date26 August 2004 — 9:20
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat #1

Time9:20
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Katrin WagnerGER1:52.63053.81 (1)58.820 (3)Q
23Jenni HonkanenFIN1:53.05055.81 (7)57.240 (1)Q
37Li TingCHN1:53.59855.28 (4)58.318 (2)Q
44Petra SantyBEL1:54.53455.07 (3)59.464 (4)
56Athina-Theodora AlexopoulouGRE1:54.95055.43 (5)59.520 (5)
68Olga KostenkoRUS1:55.76655.66 (6)1:00.106 (7)
72Michala StrnadováCZE1:56.15456.24 (8)59.914 (6)
89Amanda RankinAUS1:56.19854.18 (2)1:02.018 (8)
91María Fernanda LauroARG2:00.19857.06 (9)1:03.138 (9)

Heat #2

Time9:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Josefa IdemITA1:50.84452.74 (1)58.104 (1)Q
26Larisa PesyakhovichISR1:55.09655.63 (2)59.466 (3)Q
33Ludy HardyGBR1:56.43257.43 (6)59.002 (2)Q
42Carrie JohnsonUSA1:56.71256.76 (4)59.952 (4)
57Nathalie MarieFRA1:57.94456.10 (3)1:01.844 (5)
68Yuliya BorzovaUZB1:59.56057.11 (5)1:02.450 (6)
79Miyuki ShirataJPN2:03.07658.20 (7)1:04.876 (8)
81Đòàn Thị CáchVIE2:06.6921:02.65 (8)1:04.042 (7)
DQ4Aneta PastuszkaPOL[1:53.020]– (–)– (–)2

Final Round

Date28 August 2004 — 9:20
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Natasa JanicsHUN1:47.74153.34 (1)54.401 (1)
27Josefa IdemITA1:49.72954.07 (2)55.659 (2)
34Caroline BrunetCAN1:50.60154.15 (3)56.451 (3)
43Katrin WagnerGER1:52.55754.69 (4)57.867 (9)
56Marcela ErbanováSVK1:52.68555.69 (6)56.995 (6)
62Larisa PesyakhovichISR1:53.08955.43 (5)57.659 (8)
79Ludy HardyGBR1:53.71756.73 (7)56.987 (5)
88Jenni HonkanenFIN1:53.93757.14 (9)56.797 (4)
91Li TingCHN1:54.47356.88 (8)57.593 (7)