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Kayak Singles, 200 metres, Men

Date19 – 20 August 2016
StatusOlympic
LocationEstádio da Lagoa, Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro
Participants22 from 22 countries

Since winning bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Canadian Mark de Jonge had established himself as the man to beat in the Men’s K-1 200. He had moved up to second at the 2013 World Championships, before taking the title in 2014 and 2015 and setting a world record in the process. One potential competitor was Spain’s Saúl Craviotto, who had been the runner-up in London and was already in top form after winning the K-2 200 earlier in the Games. Great Britain’s Ed McKeever was the champion in London, but in Rio his nation was represented by Liam Heath, the 2016 European Champion, who had already won a silver medal in the K-2 200.

Of these three competitors, only Heath managed to win his preliminary heat. Craviotto finished behind Maxime Beaumont of France, the 2015 World runner-up, while de Jonge was third in a heat won by Germany’s Ronald Rauhe, a decorated canoeist with five K-1 200 World Championship titles dating back to 2001. De Jonge struggled again in the semifinals, placing fourth in his heat behind Heath, Rauhe, and Craviotto and avoiding elimination by a mere 0.003 seconds. Beaumont was the winner of the other semifinal. In the final, Beaumount started in the lead but was soon passed by Heath, who held on to capture gold a mere 0.165 seconds ahead of the Frenchman. In the race for bronze, it appeared at first that Craviotto had barely edged out Rauhe, but a closer examination of the finish revealed that they had both crossed the line at exactly 35.662 seconds, and thus both were awarded third place.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCR1SFFinal
199Liam HeathGBR34.327 (1 h3)34.076 (1 h1)35.197 (1 h2)Gold
238Maxime BeaumontFRA34.322 (1 h2)34.398 (1 h2)35.362 (2 h2)Silver
=394Saúl CraviottoESP34.694 (2 h2)34.545 (3 h1)35.662 (=3 h2)Bronze
=390Ronny RauheGER34.350 (1 h1)34.180 (2 h1)35.662 (=3 h2)Bronze
5103Aleksejs RumjancevsLAT35.175 (4 h1)34.722 (4 h2)35.891 (5 h2)
626Manfredi RizzaITA34.726 (2 h1)34.686 (3 h2)36.000 (6 h2)
785Mark de JongeCAN34.898 (3 h1)34.775 (4 h1)36.080 (7 h2)
842Stephen BirdAUS34.650 (2 h3)34.584 (2 h2)36.426 (8 h2)
910Ignas NavakauskasLTU35.144 (4 h3)35.168 (5 h2)37.075 (1 h1)
1077Petter MenningSWE35.264 (5 h3)34.995 (6 h1)37.104 (2 h1)
1124César de CesareECU35.216 (5 h1)35.936 (8 h1)37.169 (3 h1)
1255Jo Gwang-HuiKOR35.402 (5 h2)35.869 (8 h2)37.265 (4 h1)
1369Marko NovakovićSRB34.938 (3 h3)34.778 (5 h1)37.415 (5 h1)
1414Yevgeny LukantsovRUS35.245 (4 h2)35.567 (7 h1)37.482 (6 h1)
1574Péter MolnárHUN35.102 (3 h2)35.207 (6 h2)37.896 (7 h1)
1622Rubén RézolaARG35.491 (6 h3)35.439 (7 h2)38.061 (8 h1)
1750Fidel VargasCUB35.561 (6 h2)
182Paweł KaczmarekPOL35.562 (6 h1)
19115Filip ŠvábCZE35.567 (7 h2)
2062Edson da SilvaBRA35.665 (7 h1)
21136Aleksey DergunovKAZ36.647 (8 h1)
2258Karim El-SayedEGY37.294 (7 h3)

Round One

Date19 August 2016 — 8:59
FormatTop six and three next fastest in each heat advanced to semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time8:59
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime
11Ronny RauheGER34.350Q
23Manfredi RizzaITA34.726Q
35Mark de JongeCAN34.898Q
47Aleksejs RumjancevsLAT35.175Q
54César de CesareECU35.216Q
66Paweł KaczmarekPOL35.562
78Edson da SilvaBRA35.665
82Aleksey DergunovKAZ36.647

Heat #2

Time9:06
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime
15Maxime BeaumontFRA34.322Q
22Saúl CraviottoESP34.694Q
33Péter MolnárHUN35.102Q
44Yevgeny LukantsovRUS35.245Q
57Jo Gwang-HuiKOR35.402Q
68Fidel VargasCUB35.561
76Filip ŠvábCZE35.567

Heat #3

Time9:13
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime
17Liam HeathGBR34.327Q
22Stephen BirdAUS34.650Q
33Marko NovakovićSRB34.938Q
44Ignas NavakauskasLTU35.144Q
55Petter MenningSWE35.264Q
66Rubén RézolaARG35.491Q
78Karim El-SayedEGY37.294

Semi-Finals

Date19 August 2016 — 10:07
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to final.

Heat #1

Time10:07
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime
15Liam HeathGBR34.076Q
24Ronny RauheGER34.180Q
36Saúl CraviottoESP34.545Q
47Mark de JongeCAN34.775Q
53Marko NovakovićSRB34.778QB
68Petter MenningSWE34.995QB
72Yevgeny LukantsovRUS35.567QB
81César de CesareECU35.936QB

Heat #2

Time10:13
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime
15Maxime BeaumontFRA34.398Q
26Stephen BirdAUS34.584Q
34Manfredi RizzaITA34.686Q
47Aleksejs RumjancevsLAT34.722Q
52Ignas NavakauskasLTU35.168QB
63Péter MolnárHUN35.207QB
78Rubén RézolaARG35.439QB
81Jo Gwang-HuiKOR35.869QB

Final Round

Date20 August 2016 — 8:59

Final B

Time8:59
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime
14Ignas NavakauskasLTU37.075
23Petter MenningSWE37.104
31César de CesareECU37.169
48Jo Gwang-HuiKOR37.265
55Marko NovakovićSRB37.415
67Yevgeny LukantsovRUS37.482
76Péter MolnárHUN37.896
82Rubén RézolaARG38.061

Final A

Time9:06
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime
15Liam HeathGBR35.197
24Maxime BeaumontFRA35.362
=37Saúl CraviottoESP35.662
=33Ronny RauheGER35.662
58Aleksejs RumjancevsLAT35.891
62Manfredi RizzaITA36.000
71Mark de JongeCAN36.080
86Stephen BirdAUS36.426