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Kayak Singles, 500 metres, Women

Date31 July – 4 August 1996
StatusOlympic
LocationLake Sidney Lanier, Gainesville, Georgia
Participants23 from 23 countries

There were many luminaries among the field in the women’s K-1 500 at the 1996 Summer Olympics, most notably Birgit Fischer of Germany, who had three Olympic gold medals, two of which (1980 and 1992) were in this event, and 22 World Championship titles, including seven in the K-1 500. Yet it was Hungary’s Rita Kőbán, the 1992 Olympic runner-up, who was the reigning World Champion. In the opening heats, however, Kőbán was defeated by Italy’s Josefa Idem, the 1990 World Champion, who set an Olympic record, while Fisher was third behind Austria’s Uschi Profanter and Canada’s Caroline Brunet, the latter of whom was the 1995 World runner-up in both the K-1 200 and 500. 1989 and 1991 World Champion Katrin Borchert, formerly of Germany but now competing for Australia, took the third heat. Idem bested both Brunet and Fischer in the semi-finals, while Profanter was third in another heat won by Kőbán in Olympic record time. Borchert, meanwhile, survived to the finals only by being the faster of the two fifth-place finishers. Brunet and Kőbán led the pack and battled the entire course, with the latter winning gold in Olympic record time by a margin of 0.236 seconds, leaving the Canadian with silver. Idem, meanwhile, came in for bronze, leaving Fischer without a medal in the K-1 500 for the first time in four Olympics.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCR1RepSFFinal
1152Rita KőbánHUN1:50.423 (2 h1)1:48.842 (1 h1)1:47.655 (1)Gold
2048Caroline BrunetCAN1:53.024 (2 h2)1:49.575 (2 h2)1:47.891 (2)Silver
3175Josefa IdemITA1:50.303 (1 h1)1:49.079 (1 h2)1:48.731 (3)Bronze
4146Birgit FischerGER1:54.880 (3 h2)1:51.863 (3 h2)1:49.383 (4)
5298Susanne GunnarssonSWE1:52.943 (3 h1)1:49.886 (2 h1)1:49.591 (5)
6025Uschi ProfanterAUT1:51.440 (1 h2)1:50.066 (3 h1)1:50.271 (6)
7008Katrin BorchertAUS1:53.767 (1 h3)1:51.142 (5 h1)1:50.811 (7)
8276Ingrid Haralamow-RaimannSUI1:58.520 (5 h2)1:57.891 (1 h1)1:50.830 (4 h1)1:50.875 (8)
9238Aneta PastuszkaPOL1:54.015 (4 h1)1:58.359 (2 h1)1:53.255 (4 h2)1:52.451 (9)
5 h2 r3/4258Ruth NortjeRSA1:54.695 (2 h3)1:53.611 (5 h2)
6 h1 r3/4098Belén SánchezESP1:55.043 (3 h3)1:52.322 (6 h1)
6 h2 r3/4026Delphine Van De VenneBEL1:57.363 (4 h3)1:59.027 (3 h1)1:54.687 (6 h2)
7 h1 r3/4125Andrea DallawayGBR1:58.531 (5 h3)2:04.885 (2 h2)1:55.842 (7 h1)
7 h2 r3/4174Lior CarmiISR1:57.675 (6 h1)2:05.737 (4 h2)1:54.899 (7 h2)
8 h1 r3/4121Anne MichautFRA1:57.263 (5 h1)2:05.477 (3 h2)1:55.930 (8 h1)
8 h2 r3/4186Sayuri MaruyamaJPN1:58.160 (4 h2)2:04.829 (1 h2)1:54.943 (8 h2)
9 h1 r3/4066Gao BeibeiCHN1:59.543 (7 h1)1:59.095 (4 h1)1:57.498 (9 h1)
9 h2 r3/4313Traci PhillipsUSA2:02.847 (8 h1)2:00.371 (5 h1)1:55.339 (9 h2)
5 h2 r2/4341Irina LyalinaUZB1:59.996 (7 h2)2:08.017 (5 h2)
6 h1 r2/4213Érika DurónMEX1:58.884 (6 h2)2:02.847 (6 h1)
6 h2 r2/4251Raluca IonițăROU2:00.059 (6 h3)2:11.941 (6 h2)
7 h1 r2/4081Pavlína JobánkováCZE2:07.811 (7 h3)2:12.219 (7 h1)
8 h2 r1/4Heidi LehrerANT3:00.672 (8 h2)

Round One

Date31 July 1996
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time10:20
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
17Josefa IdemITA1:50.30353.89 (1)56.413 (2)QOB
28Rita KőbánHUN1:50.42354.26 (2)56.163 (1)Q
31Susanne GunnarssonSWE1:52.94354.92 (3)58.023 (4)Q
44Aneta PastuszkaPOL1:54.01556.26 (4)57.755 (3)
55Anne MichautFRA1:57.26356.98 (6)1:00.283 (6)
66Lior CarmiISR1:57.67558.33 (8)59.345 (5)
72Gao BeibeiCHN1:59.54356.64 (5)1:02.903 (7)
83Traci PhillipsUSA2:02.84757.39 (7)1:05.457 (8)

Heat #2

Time10:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Uschi ProfanterAUT1:51.44054.27 (3)57.170 (1)Q
22Caroline BrunetCAN1:53.02453.24 (1)59.784 (2)Q
33Birgit FischerGER1:54.88053.56 (2)1:01.320 (4)Q
41Sayuri MaruyamaJPN1:58.16057.17 (5)1:00.990 (3)
58Ingrid Haralamow-RaimannSUI1:58.52056.16 (4)1:02.360 (7)
66Érika DurónMEX1:58.88457.42 (6)1:01.464 (5)
74Irina LyalinaUZB1:59.99658.24 (7)1:01.756 (6)
87Heidi LehrerANT3:00.6721:34.28 (8)1:26.392 (8)

Heat #3

Time10:40
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
16Katrin BorchertAUS1:53.76755.96 (2)57.807 (1)Q
25Ruth NortjeRSA1:54.69556.75 (3)57.945 (2)Q
37Belén SánchezESP1:55.04355.65 (1)59.393 (3)Q
43Delphine Van De VenneBEL1:57.36357.52 (5)59.843 (4)
58Andrea DallawayGBR1:58.53157.06 (4)1:01.471 (5)
61Raluca IonițăROU2:00.05958.47 (6)1:01.589 (6)
74Pavlína JobánkováCZE2:07.81158.81 (7)1:09.001 (7)

Repêchage

Date31 July 1996
FormatTop four in each heat and fastest fifth advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time15:20
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
16Ingrid Haralamow-RaimannSUI1:57.89156.13 (1)1:01.761 (3)Q
25Aneta PastuszkaPOL1:58.35956.38 (2)1:01.979 (4)Q
34Delphine Van De VenneBEL1:59.02758.41 (5)1:00.617 (1)Q
47Gao BeibeiCHN1:59.09557.87 (4)1:01.225 (2)Q
58Traci PhillipsUSA2:00.37157.67 (3)1:02.701 (5)q
63Érika DurónMEX2:02.84758.63 (6)1:04.217 (6)
72Pavlína JobánkováCZE2:12.2191:03.02 (7)1:09.199 (7)

Heat #2

Time15:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Sayuri MaruyamaJPN2:04.8291:00.19 (2)1:04.639 (1)Q
26Andrea DallawayGBR2:04.88559.93 (1)1:04.955 (2)Q
34Anne MichautFRA2:05.4771:00.43 (3)1:05.047 (3)Q
43Lior CarmiISR2:05.7371:00.65 (4)1:05.087 (4)Q
58Irina LyalinaUZB2:08.0171:01.56 (5)1:06.457 (5)
67Raluca IonițăROU2:11.9411:03.47 (6)1:08.471 (6)

Semi-Finals

Date2 August 1996
FormatTop four in each heat and fastest fifth advanced to the final.

Heat #1

Time9:50
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
16Rita KőbánHUN1:48.84253.31 (1)55.532 (1)QOB
23Susanne GunnarssonSWE1:49.88653.94 (3)55.946 (3)Q
35Uschi ProfanterAUT1:50.06654.21 (4)55.856 (2)Q
48Ingrid Haralamow-RaimannSUI1:50.83053.55 (2)57.280 (5)Q
54Katrin BorchertAUS1:51.14254.84 (6)56.302 (4)q
67Belén SánchezESP1:52.32254.46 (5)57.862 (6)
72Andrea DallawayGBR1:55.84255.53 (8)1:00.312 (7)
89Anne MichautFRA1:55.93055.20 (7)1:00.730 (8)
91Gao BeibeiCHN1:57.49856.39 (9)1:01.108 (9)

Heat #2

Time10:00
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Josefa IdemITA1:49.07953.16 (2)55.919 (1)Q
24Caroline BrunetCAN1:49.57552.80 (1)56.775 (2)Q
37Birgit FischerGER1:51.86353.46 (3)58.403 (5)Q
48Aneta PastuszkaPOL1:53.25554.23 (4)59.025 (8)Q
56Ruth NortjeRSA1:53.61155.79 (6)57.821 (4)
62Delphine Van De VenneBEL1:54.68757.31 (9)57.377 (3)
71Lior CarmiISR1:54.89956.32 (8)58.579 (6)
83Sayuri MaruyamaJPN1:54.94356.06 (7)58.883 (7)
99Traci PhillipsUSA1:55.33955.54 (5)59.799 (9)

Final Round

Date4 August 1996 — 9:40
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
15Rita KőbánHUN1:47.65552.43 (2)55.225 (1)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)OB
23Caroline BrunetCAN1:47.89152.15 (1)55.741 (3)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)
34Josefa IdemITA1:48.73152.89 (4)55.841 (4)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)
42Birgit FischerGER1:49.38352.64 (3)56.743 (7)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)
56Susanne GunnarssonSWE1:49.59153.20 (5)56.391 (5)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)
67Uschi ProfanterAUT1:50.27153.63 (6)56.641 (6)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)
79Katrin BorchertAUS1:50.81155.32 (9)55.491 (2)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)
88Ingrid Haralamow-RaimannSUI1:50.87554.00 (7)56.875 (8)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)
91Aneta PastuszkaPOL1:52.45154.32 (8)58.131 (9)– (–)– (–)– (–)– (–)