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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-1 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The C-1 event is raced by single-man sprint canoes.

Medalists

Gold	Andreas Dittmer Germany (GER)
Silver	David Cal Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Maxim Opalev Russia (RUS)

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 24.

Heat 1
1.	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	1:49.146	QF
2.	Martin Marinov (AUS)	1:49.698	QS
3.	Aldo Pruna Diaz (CUB)	1:50.246	QS
4.	Aliaksandr Zhukouski (BLR)	1:50.378	QS
5.	Andreas Kiligkaridis (GRE)	1:53.662	QS
6.	Yuriy Cheban (UKR)	2:00.238	QS
7.	Darwin Correa (URU)	2:02.014	QS
Heat 2
1.	Maxim Opalev (RUS)	1:48.144	QF
2.	Dagnis Vinogradovs (LAT)	1:50.776	QS
3.	Florin Georgian Mironcic (ROU)	1:51.568	QS
4.	Wang Bing (CHN)	1:51.920	QS
5.	Emanuel Horvaticek (CRO)	1:55.528	QS
6.	Kaissar Nurmaganbetov (KAZ)	1:55.636	QS
Heat 3
1.	David Cal (ESP)	1:48.397	QF
2.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	1:49.557	QS
3.	Richard Dalton (CAN)	1:50.005	QS
4.	Marton Joob (HUN)	1:51.025	QS
5.	Stanimir Atanasov (BUL)	1:52.917	QS
6.	Marian Ostrcil (SVK)	1:58.357	QS

Semifinals

The top three finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the final, joining the three first-place finishers from the initial heats. Fourth place and higher competitors were eliminated. The semifinals were raced on August 26.

Semifinal 1
1.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	1:50.253	QF
2.	Marton Joob (HUN)	1:50.813	QF
3.	Wang Bing (CHN)	1:51.649	QF
4.	Aldo Pruna Diaz (CUB)	1:53.229
5.	Kaissar Nurmaganbetov (KAZ)	1:53.333
6.	Yuriy Cheban (UKR)	1:53.385
7.	Andreas Kiligkaridis (GRE)	1:53.793
8.	Florin Georgian Mironcic (ROU)	1:53.957
Semifinal 2
1.	Aliaksandr Zhukouski (BLR)	1:50.563	QF
2.	Stanimir Atanasov (BUL)	1:50.631	QF
3.	Richard Dalton (CAN)	1:51.027	QF
4.	Martin Marinov (AUS)	1:51.219
5.	Dagnis Vinogradovs (LAT)	1:52.511
6.	Marian Ostrcil (SVK)	1:52.871
7.	Darwin Correa (URU)	1:58.727
8.	Emanuel Horvaticek (CRO)	2:06.347

Final

The final was raced on August 28.

	Andreas Dittmer (GER)	1:46.383
	David Cal (ESP)	1:46.723
	Maxim Opalev (RUS)	1:47.767
4.	Aliaksandr Zhukouski (BLR)	1:47.903
5.	Martin Doktor (CZE)	1:47.999
6.	Richard Dalton (CAN)	1:48.103
7.	Marton Joob (HUN)	1:48.195
8.	Stanimir Atanasov (BUL)	1:49.759
9.	Wang Bing (CHN)	1:49.903

Dittmar learned his lesson from the previous day in letting Cal get out to far ahead in the C-1 1000 m event by staying close to the Spainard through the entire race before winning his third Olympic gold medal.

References

• 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results (English), (French), & (Greek)
• Sports-reference.com 2004 C-1 500 m results.
• Yahoo! Sports Athens 2004 Summer Olympics Canoe/Kayak Results
• Wallcehinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 479.