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Kayak Fours, 1,000 metres, Men

Date23 – 27 August 2004
StatusOlympic
LocationOlympiako Kopelatodramio Skhoinia, Schinias National Park
Participants40 from 10 countries

Hungary was the reigning Olympic champion in the K-4 1000, but its only major international title in the last three years came at the 2004 European Championships. It was also runner-up at the 2002 edition, as well as at the 2001 and 2003 World Championships. The nation brought its defending Olympic lineup, Zoltán Kammerer, Botond Storcz, Ákos Vereckei, and Gábor Horváth, to the 2004 Games. Germany, the other traditionally strong nation in this event, had seen a little more success, winning the 2001 World Championships, being runner-up in 2002 and a bronze medalist in 2003, and coming in second at the 2001 European Championships. It was Slovakia, however, that had become the dominant power, winning the Worlds in 2002 and 2003 and the Europeans in 2001 and 2002. Both Slovakia and Hungary won their heats and qualified directly for the final, with the latter doing so in Olympic record time. Germany was third in Hungary’s heat, behind 2001 European bronze medalist Belarus, but was also able to avoid the semi-finals. Hungary was dominant in the medal round, winning gold almost two seconds ahead of Germany, who in turn was able to capture silver without too much difficulty. Slovakia, meanwhile, had to stave off a challenge from Bulgaria, bronze medalist at the 2002 European and World Championships, in order to claim bronze.

PosNumberCompetitorsNOCR1SFFinal
1HungaryHUN2:51.010 (1 h2)2:56.919 (1)Gold
Zoltán KammererBotond StorczÁkos VereckeiGábor Horváth
2GermanyGER2:52.678 (3 h2)2:58.659 (2)Silver
Andreas IhleMark ZabelBjörn BachStefan Ulm
3SlovakiaSVK2:53.256 (1 h1)2:59.314 (3)Bronze
Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj Bača
4BulgariaBUL2:54.252 (2 h1)2:59.622 (4)
Milko KazanovIvan HristovPetar MerkovYordan Yordanov
5NorwayNOR2:54.894 (4 h2)2:54.350 (2)3:01.698 (5)
Jacob NorenbergAlexander WefaldAndreas GjersøeMattis Næss
6BelarusBLR2:52.170 (2 h2)3:02.419 (6)
Raman PiatrushenkaAliaksei AbalmasauDziamian TurchynVadzim Makhneu
7RomaniaROU2:55.324 (4 h1)2:53.994 (1)3:03.107 (7)
Marian BăbanAlexandru CeaușuCorneli Vasile CuruzanȘtefan Vasile
8PolandPOL2:55.240 (3 h1)3:03.562 (8)
Tomasz MendelskiRafał GłażewskiAdam SeroczyńskiDariusz Białkowski
9CanadaCAN2:56.336 (5 h1)2:55.926 (3)3:07.714 (9)
Steven JorensRichard Dessureault-DoberRyan CuthbertAndrew Willows
4 h1 r2/3UzbekistanUZB3:01.446 (5 h2)2:56.594 (4)
Aleksey BabdazhanovDmitry StrykovSergey BorzovAnton Ryakhov

Round One

Date23 August 2004 — 10:40
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the final. All others advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat #1

Time10:40
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
15SlovakiaSVK2:53.25642.43 (4)1:25.48 (2)2:09.90 (1)43.05 (2)44.42 (1)43.356 (3)Q
Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj Bača
24BulgariaBUL2:54.25241.88 (1)1:24.72 (1)2:10.69 (2)42.84 (1)45.97 (3)43.562 (4)Q
Milko KazanovIvan HristovPetar MerkovYordan Yordanov
36PolandPOL2:55.24042.85 (5)1:25.98 (4)2:12.96 (5)43.13 (3)46.98 (5)42.280 (1)Q
Tomasz MendelskiRafał GłażewskiAdam SeroczyńskiDariusz Białkowski
43RomaniaROU2:55.32442.17 (3)1:26.21 (5)2:12.32 (4)44.04 (5)46.11 (4)43.004 (2)q
Marian BăbanAlexandru CeaușuCorneli Vasile CuruzanȘtefan Vasile
57CanadaCAN2:56.33641.98 (2)1:25.65 (3)2:11.23 (3)43.67 (4)45.58 (2)45.106 (5)q
Steven JorensRichard Dessureault-DoberRyan CuthbertAndrew Willows

Heat #2

Time10:50
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
15HungaryHUN2:51.01040.92 (2)1:23.78 (2)2:07.40 (2)42.86 (3)43.62 (1)43.610 (2)QOB
Zoltán KammererBotond StorczÁkos VereckeiGábor Horváth
26BelarusBLR2:52.17040.20 (1)1:22.98 (1)2:06.81 (1)42.78 (2)43.83 (2)45.360 (3)Q
Raman PiatrushenkaAliaksei AbalmasauDziamian TurchynVadzim Makhneu
34GermanyGER2:52.67841.89 (3)1:24.90 (3)2:09.37 (3)43.01 (4)44.47 (4)43.308 (1)Q
Andreas IhleMark ZabelBjörn BachStefan Ulm
43NorwayNOR2:54.89443.22 (5)1:24.99 (4)2:09.40 (4)41.77 (1)44.41 (3)45.494 (4)q
Jacob NorenbergAlexander WefaldAndreas GjersøeMattis Næss
57UzbekistanUZB3:01.44642.71 (4)1:26.37 (5)2:13.06 (5)43.66 (5)46.69 (5)48.386 (5)q
Aleksey BabdazhanovDmitry StrykovSergey BorzovAnton Ryakhov

Semi-Finals

Date25 August 2004 — 10:00
FormatTop three in each heat advanced to the final.
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
15RomaniaROU2:53.99440.74 (1)1:24.42 (1)2:09.57 (1)43.68 (2)45.15 (4)44.424 (2)Q
Marian BăbanAlexandru CeaușuCorneli Vasile CuruzanȘtefan Vasile
24NorwayNOR2:54.35042.00 (2)1:25.95 (2)2:10.22 (2)43.95 (3)44.27 (3)44.130 (1)Q
Jacob NorenbergAlexander WefaldAndreas GjersøeMattis Næss
36CanadaCAN2:55.92642.22 (3)1:27.22 (3)2:11.23 (3)45.00 (4)44.01 (2)44.696 (3)Q
Steven JorensRichard Dessureault-DoberRyan CuthbertAndrew Willows
43UzbekistanUZB2:56.59443.98 (4)1:27.64 (4)2:11.53 (4)43.66 (1)43.89 (1)45.064 (4)
Aleksey BabdazhanovDmitry StrykovSergey BorzovAnton Ryakhov

Final Round

Date27 August 2004 — 10:25
PosLaneCompetitorsNOCTime250 m500 m750 m250-500 m500-750 m750-1,000 m
14HungaryHUN2:56.91943.06 (3)1:27.37 (1)2:11.96 (1)44.31 (1)44.59 (1)44.959 (2)
Zoltán KammererBotond StorczÁkos VereckeiGábor Horváth
22GermanyGER2:58.65943.24 (5)1:27.76 (2)2:13.58 (2)44.52 (=2)45.82 (2)45.079 (3)
Andreas IhleMark ZabelBjörn BachStefan Ulm
35SlovakiaSVK2:59.31443.42 (7)1:27.94 (3)2:13.80 (3)44.52 (=2)45.86 (3)45.514 (5)
Richard RiszdorferMichal RiszdorferErik VlčekJuraj Bača
43BulgariaBUL2:59.62242.91 (2)1:28.78 (6)2:15.66 (6)45.87 (6)46.88 (7)43.962 (1)
Milko KazanovIvan HristovPetar MerkovYordan Yordanov
51NorwayNOR3:01.69843.74 (8)1:30.14 (8)2:16.37 (7)46.40 (7)46.23 (5)45.328 (4)
Jacob NorenbergAlexander WefaldAndreas GjersøeMattis Næss
66BelarusBLR3:02.41942.81 (1)1:28.22 (5)2:14.40 (4)45.41 (5)46.18 (4)48.019 (8)
Raman PiatrushenkaAliaksei AbalmasauDziamian TurchynVadzim Makhneu
78RomaniaROU3:03.10743.37 (6)1:29.90 (7)2:17.24 (8)46.53 (8)47.34 (8)45.867 (6)
Marian BăbanAlexandru CeaușuCorneli Vasile CuruzanȘtefan Vasile
87PolandPOL3:03.56243.15 (4)1:28.13 (4)2:14.86 (5)44.98 (4)46.73 (6)48.702 (9)
Tomasz MendelskiRafał GłażewskiAdam SeroczyńskiDariusz Białkowski
99CanadaCAN3:07.71444.60 (9)1:31.48 (9)2:19.75 (9)46.88 (9)48.27 (9)47.964 (7)
Steven JorensRichard Dessureault-DoberRyan CuthbertAndrew Willows