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Kayak Singles, 500 metres, Men

Date24 – 28 August 2004
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympiako Kopelatodramio Skhoinia, Schinias National Park
Participants28 from 28 countries

Bulgaria’s Petar Merkov and Israel’s Michael Kolganov, silver and bronze respectively at the 2000 Summer Games, were the only former Olympic medalists to compete at the 2004 edition. They had seen only limited success at major international tournaments since, however, with Merkov having been the runner-up at the 2002 European and World Championships and Kolganov having been the 2001 European silver medalist. Nathan Baggaley of Australia, the 2002 and 2003 World Champion, had seen more success, as had Ákos Vereckei, the 2001, 2002, and 2004 European and 2001 World Champion. Argentina’s Javier Correa, meanwhile, was a two-time victor at the Pan American Games and had been the 2001 World bronze medalist.

It was Norway’s Eirik Verås Larsen, however, a specialist at 1000 metres, who set an Olympic record in the opening heats and defeated Baggaley and Kolganov in the process. Vereckei and Merkov, meanwhile, fell to Great Britain’s Ian Wynne, the 2004 European runner-up, while Correa was bested by Canada’s Adam Van Koeverden. South Africa’s Alan van Coller took the fourth heat. Baggaley led the pack for the first half of the final, but Van Koeverden was constantly on his tail and, at the halfway mark, initiated a charge that took him past the Australian and into the history books as Canada’s first Olympic canoeing champion in twenty years. Baggaley grabbed silver just over half a second later, staving off challenges from Wynne and Larsen, who finished 0.08 and 0.2 seconds later respectively. Van Koeverden thus added gold to the bronze medal he had won the day before in the K-1 1000, while Baggaley would go on to take silver again in the K-2 500 about an hour later.

PosNumberCompetitorNOCR1SFFinal
149Adam Van KoeverdenCAN1:37.591 (1 h3)1:38.907 (1 h3)1:37.919 (1)Gold
212Nathan BaggaleyAUS1:37.997 (2 h1)1:39.031 (2 h3)1:38.467 (2)Silver
396Ian WynneGBR1:37.341 (1 h2)1:38.911 (1 h2)1:38.547 (3)Bronze
4155Eirik Verås LarsenNOR1:36.905 (1 h1)1:38.361 (1 h1)1:38.667 (4)
5132Ákos VereckeiHUN1:37.589 (2 h2)1:38.737 (2 h1)1:39.315 (5)
6113Lutz AltepostGER1:38.859 (3 h3)1:39.643 (2 h2)1:39.647 (6)
793Bâbak Amir-TahmassebFRA1:39.401 (3 h1)1:40.467 (3 h2)1:40.187 (7)
81Javier CorreaARG1:38.675 (2 h3)1:39.525 (3 h1)1:40.639 (8)
9139Andrea FacchinITA1:40.025 (4 h2)1:40.387 (3 h3)1:41.575 (9)
4 h1 r2/3152Alvydas DuonėlaLTU1:40.365 (3 h4)1:40.253 (4 h1)
4 h2 r2/3239Rami ZurUSA1:40.349 (2 h4)1:40.727 (4 h2)
4 h3 r2/3192Alan van CollerRSA1:40.089 (1 h4)1:41.131 (4 h3)
5 h1 r2/3245Anton RyakhovUZB1:42.253 (6 h2)1:40.737 (5 h1)
5 h2 r2/3205Simon FähSUI1:42.415 (7 h3)1:41.039 (5 h2)
5 h3 r2/3216Anders GustafssonSWE1:40.689 (6 h1)1:41.291 (5 h3)
6 h1 r2/389Kimmo LatvamäkiFIN1:40.645 (5 h1)1:40.753 (6 h1)
6 h2 r2/388Carlos PérezESP1:40.149 (5 h2)1:41.335 (6 h2)
6 h3 r2/333Petar MerkovBUL1:38.725 (3 h2)1:42.207 (6 h3)
7 h1 r2/3195Andrey ShkiotovRUS1:40.809 (7 h1)1:40.765 (7 h1)
7 h2 r2/3180Emanuel SilvaPOR1:40.067 (4 h3)1:43.051 (7 h2)
7 h3 r2/3209Martin ChorváthSVK1:42.383 (6 h3)1:43.095 (7 h3)
8 h1 r2/326Sébastian CuattrínBRA1:40.999 (5 h3)1:42.213 (8 h1)
8 h2 r2/3138Michael KolganovISR1:39.745 (4 h1)1:43.411 (8 h2)
8 h3 r2/354Liu HaitaoCHN1:43.337 (7 h2)1:46.179 (8 h3)
9 h1 r2/3173Paweł BaumannPOL1:42.581 (4 h4)1:43.125 (9 h1)
9 h2 r2/3203Tony LespoirSEY2:02.669 (6 h4)2:04.975 (9 h2)
9 h3 r2/3118Apostolos PapandreouGRE1:44.217 (5 h4)1:46.627 (9 h3)
7 h4 r1/3162Steven FergusonNZL2:06.937 (7 h4)

Round One

Date24 August 2004 — 8:30
FormatTop six in each heat and next fastest three advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time8:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
18Eirik Verås LarsenNOR1:36.90548.25 (3)48.655 (2)QOB
25Nathan BaggaleyAUS1:37.99748.06 (1)49.937 (4)Q
32Bâbak Amir-TahmassebFRA1:39.40149.65 (4)49.751 (3)Q
46Michael KolganovISR1:39.74551.16 (7)48.585 (1)Q
57Kimmo LatvamäkiFIN1:40.64550.09 (5)50.555 (6)Q
64Anders GustafssonSWE1:40.68950.18 (6)50.509 (5)Q
73Andrey ShkiotovRUS1:40.80948.16 (2)52.649 (7)q

Heat #2

Time8:40
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
18Ian WynneGBR1:37.34148.56 (3)48.781 (1)Q
24Ákos VereckeiHUN1:37.58948.47 (2)49.119 (2)Q
33Petar MerkovBUL1:38.72548.06 (1)50.665 (5)Q
46Andrea FacchinITA1:40.02550.22 (6)49.805 (3)Q
55Carlos PérezESP1:40.14949.82 (5)50.329 (4)Q
67Anton RyakhovUZB1:42.25349.46 (4)52.793 (6)Q
72Liu HaitaoCHN1:43.33750.39 (7)52.947 (7)q

Heat #3

Time8:50
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
14Adam Van KoeverdenCAN1:37.59147.76 (1)49.831 (1)Q
26Javier CorreaARG1:38.67547.97 (2)50.705 (3)Q
35Lutz AltepostGER1:38.85948.82 (3)50.039 (2)Q
42Emanuel SilvaPOR1:40.06748.91 (4)51.157 (5)Q
57Sébastian CuattrínBRA1:40.99949.64 (6)51.359 (6)Q
68Martin ChorváthSVK1:42.38351.23 (7)51.153 (4)Q
73Simon FähSUI1:42.41549.53 (5)52.885 (7)q

Heat #4

Time9:00
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
16Alan van CollerRSA1:40.08950.10 (3)49.989 (1)Q
25Rami ZurUSA1:40.34949.87 (2)50.479 (2)Q
34Alvydas DuonėlaLTU1:40.36549.47 (1)50.895 (3)Q
43Paweł BaumannPOL1:42.58150.51 (4)52.071 (4)Q
52Apostolos PapandreouGRE1:44.21750.67 (5)53.547 (5)Q
68Tony LespoirSEY2:02.66958.05 (6)1:04.619 (7)Q
77Steven FergusonNZL2:06.9371:02.95 (7)1:03.987 (6)

Semi-Finals

Date26 August 2004 — 8:30
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the final.

Heat #1

Time8:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Eirik Verås LarsenNOR1:38.36148.35 (2)50.011 (1)Q
24Ákos VereckeiHUN1:38.73748.60 (4)50.137 (2)Q
36Javier CorreaARG1:39.52547.96 (1)51.565 (6)Q
43Alvydas DuonėlaLTU1:40.25348.75 (5)51.503 (5)
51Anton RyakhovUZB1:40.73748.44 (3)52.297 (7)
68Kimmo LatvamäkiFIN1:40.75350.04 (8)50.713 (3)
79Andrey ShkiotovRUS1:40.76549.75 (6)51.015 (4)
82Sébastian CuattrínBRA1:42.21349.84 (7)52.373 (8)
97Paweł BaumannPOL1:43.12550.39 (9)52.735 (9)

Heat #2

Time8:40
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
15Ian WynneGBR1:38.91147.92 (1)50.991 (3)Q
23Lutz AltepostGER1:39.64349.89 (8)49.753 (1)Q
36Bâbak Amir-TahmassebFRA1:40.46749.50 (7)50.967 (2)Q
44Rami ZurUSA1:40.72748.26 (2)52.467 (5)
51Simon FähSUI1:41.03949.12 (6)51.919 (4)
68Carlos PérezESP1:41.33548.36 (3)52.975 (6)
77Emanuel SilvaPOR1:43.05148.97 (5)54.081 (7)
82Michael KolganovISR1:43.41148.60 (4)54.811 (8)
99Tony LespoirSEY2:04.97558.66 (9)1:06.315 (9)

Heat #3

Time8:50
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
14Adam Van KoeverdenCAN1:38.90747.48 (1)51.427 (2)Q
26Nathan BaggaleyAUS1:39.03147.86 (2)51.171 (1)Q
37Andrea FacchinITA1:40.38748.95 (5)51.437 (3)Q
45Alan van CollerRSA1:41.13148.28 (3)52.851 (5)
51Anders GustafssonSWE1:41.29149.18 (6)52.111 (4)
63Petar MerkovBUL1:42.20748.73 (4)53.477 (6)
78Martin ChorváthSVK1:43.09549.48 (7)53.615 (7)
89Liu HaitaoCHN1:46.17951.15 (9)55.029 (8)
92Apostolos PapandreouGRE1:46.62750.93 (8)55.697 (9)

Final Round

Date28 August 2004 — 8:30
PosLaneCompetitorNOCTime250 m250-500 m
16Adam Van KoeverdenCAN1:37.91947.99 (2)49.929 (4)
22Nathan BaggaleyAUS1:38.46746.99 (1)51.477 (7)
34Ian WynneGBR1:38.54749.23 (6)49.317 (1)
45Eirik Verås LarsenNOR1:38.66748.84 (5)49.827 (3)
53Ákos VereckeiHUN1:39.31548.16 (3)51.155 (6)
67Lutz AltepostGER1:39.64750.31 (9)49.337 (2)
71Bâbak Amir-TahmassebFRA1:40.18749.82 (8)50.367 (5)
88Javier CorreaARG1:40.63948.48 (4)52.159 (9)
99Andrea FacchinITA1:41.57549.62 (7)51.955 (8)