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Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Slalom
C-1		men
C-2		men
K-1		men		women
Sprint
C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

These are the results of the men's C-1 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The C-1 event is raced by single-man sprint canoes.

Medalists

Gold	David Cal Spain (ESP)
Silver	Andreas Dittmer Germany (GER)
Bronze	Attila Vajda Hungary (HUN)

Heats

The 19 competitors first raced in three heats. The first place finishers from each of the heats advanced directly to the final, and the remaining 16 canoers moved on to the two semifinal races. The heats were raced on August 23.

Heat 1
1.	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	3:52.922	QF
2.	Stanimir Atanasov (BUL)	3:55.590	QS
3.	Marian Ostrcil (SVK)	3:56.962	QS
4.	Dagnis Vinogradovs (LAT)	3:57.070	QS
5.	Jonnathan Tafra (CHI)	4:04.402	QS
6.	Jing Ying (CHN)	4:05.874	QS
7.	Emanuel Horvaticek (CRO)	4:27.662	QS
Heat 2
1.	David Cal (ESP)	3:50.091	QF
2.	Stephen Giles (CAN)	3:52.451	QS
3.	Andreas Kiligkaridis (GRE)	3:53.723	QS
4.	Mitică Pricop (ROU)	4:00.559	QS
5.	Aliaksandr Zhukouski (BLR)	4:02.159	QS
6.	Darwin Correa (URU)	4:27.115	QS
Heat 3
1.	Konstantin Fomichev (RUS)	3.48.690	QF
2.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	3:49.029	QS
3.	Karel Aguilar Chacon (CUB)	3:54.250	QS
4.	Attila Vajda (HUN)	3:57.290	QS
5.	Kaissar Nurmaganbetov (KAZ)	4:00.486	QS
6.	Yuriy Cheban (UKR)	4:00.637	QS

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals advanced to the finals, joining the three canoers who had moved directly from the heats. All other canoers were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 25.

Semifinal 1
1.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	3:51.812	QF
2.	Attila Vajda (HUN)	3:52.236	QF
3.	Marian Ostrcil (SVK)	3:53.820	QF
4.	Andreas Kiligkaridis (GRE)	3:55.608
5.	Mitică Pricop (ROU)	3:59.640
6.	Jing Ying (CHN)	4:00.684
7.	Darwin Correa (URU)	4:22.096
8.	Jonnathan Tafra (CHI)	4:22.644
Semifinal 2
1.	Stephen Giles (CAN)	3:51.720	QF
2.	Karel Aguilar Chacon (CUB)	3:52.260	QF
3.	Dagnis Vinogradovs (LAT)	3:53.656	QF
4.	Aliaksandr Zhukouski (BLR)	3:55.456
5.	Kaissar Nurmaganbetov (KAZ)	3:57.804
6.	Stanimir Atanasov (BUL)	4:05.664
7.	Emanuel Horvaticek (CRO)	4:24.604
8.	Yuriy Cheban (UKR)	DSQ

Cheban was disqualified for not appearing in boat control after the race.

Final

The final was raced on August 27.

	David Cal (ESP)	3:46.201
	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	3:46.721
	Attila Vajda (HUN)	3:49.025
4.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	3:50.405
5.	Stephen Giles (CAN)	3:51.457
6.	Dagnis Vinogradovs (LAT)	3:53.537
7.	Marian Ostrcil (SVK)	3:54.629
8.	Karel Aguilar Chacon (CUB)	3:54.957
9.	Konstantin Fomichev (RUS)	3:55.773

Dittmer got off to a quick lead, but Cal took the lead in an early surge to open a one-second gap at the 500 meter mark. The German tried to close the gap to the Spainard, but Cal held on to win the gold.

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results (English), (French), & (Greek)
• Sports-reference.com 2004 C-1 1000 m results.
• Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 481.