Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's C-1 1000 metres explained

The men's C-1 1000 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics program.

Results

Heats

19 competitors were entered. The top three finishers in each heat moved on to the semifinals with the others relegated to the repechages.

Heat 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
width=30	1.	align=left athlete	Matthias Röder	align=left athlete		width=80	4:02.57	QS
2.	align=left athlete	Pascal Sylvoz	align=left athlete		4:03.39	QS
3.	align=left athlete	Ivans Klementyev	align=left athlete		4:03.82	QS
4.	align=left athlete	Victor Partnoi	align=left athlete		4:04.64	QR
5.	align=left athlete	Jan Bartůněk	align=left athlete		4:15.61	QR
6.	align=left athlete	Tomasz Darski	align=left athlete		4:23.21	QR
7.	align=left athlete	Park Chang-Gyu	align=left athlete		4:23.93	QR

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	align=left athlete	Steve Giles	align=left athlete		4:03.34	QS
2.	align=left athlete	Nikolay Bukhalov	align=left athlete		4:03.36	QS
3.	align=left athlete	Aleksandr Kostoglod	align=left athlete		4:04.99	QS
4.	align=left athlete	Peter Liljedahl	align=left athlete		4:05.08	QR
5.	align=left athlete	Vlado Poslek	align=left athlete		4:09.77	QR
6.	align=left athlete	Fred Spaulding	align=left athlete		4:10.24	QR

Heat 3

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	align=left athlete	György Zala	align=left athlete		4:06.43	QS
2.	align=left athlete	Andrew Train	align=left athlete		4:07.44	QS
3.	align=left athlete	José Alfredo Bea	align=left athlete		4:09.18	QS
4.	align=left athlete	Armando Silega	align=left athlete		4:10.76	QR
5.	align=left athlete	Tiit Tikerpe	align=left athlete		4:14.73	QR
6.	align=left athlete	José Martínez	align=left athlete		4:18.70	QR

Repechages

The top four finishers in each repechage and the fastest fifth-place finisher moved on to the semifinals.

Repechage 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
width=30	1.	align=left athlete	Victor Partnoi	align=left athlete		width=80	4:02.67	QS
2.	align=left athlete	Fred Spaulding	align=left athlete		4:04.39	QS
3.	align=left athlete	Armando Silega	align=left athlete		4:04.43	QS
4.	align=left athlete	Vlado Poslek	align=left athlete		4:05.86	QS
5.	align=left athlete	Park Chang-Gyu	align=left athlete		4:06.53	QS

Repechage 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	align=left athlete	Jan Bartůněk	align=left athlete		4:02.48	QS
2.	align=left athlete	Peter Liljedahl	align=left athlete		4:03.44	QS
3.	align=left athlete	Tiit Tikerpe	align=left athlete		4:05.05	QS
4.	align=left athlete	José Martínez	align=left athlete		4:06.73	QS
5.	align=left athlete	Tomasz Darski	align=left athlete		4:11.11

Semifinals

The top four finishers in each semifinal and the fastest fifth-place finisher advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
width=30	1.	align=left athlete	Matthias Röder	align=left athlete		width=80	4:02.94	QF
2.	align=left athlete	Nikolay Bukhalov	align=left athlete		4:03.46	QF
3.	align=left athlete	Ivans Klementyev	align=left athlete		4:04.12	QF
4.	align=left athlete	György Zala	align=left athlete		4:05.29	QF
5.	align=left athlete	Victor Partnoi	align=left athlete		4:06.58	QF
6.	align=left athlete	José Martínez	align=left athlete		4:07.78
7.	align=left athlete	Armando Silega	align=left athlete		4:25.54
8.	align=left athlete	José Alfredo Bea	align=left athlete		4:25.63
-	align=left athlete	Peter Liljedahl	align=left athlete		4:06.63	DISQ

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
width=30	1.	align=left athlete	Pascal Sylvoz	align=left athlete		width=80	4:06.83	QF
2.	align=left athlete	Steve Giles	align=left athlete		4:08.05	QF
3.	align=left athlete	Jan Bartůněk	align=left athlete		4:08.44	QF
4.	align=left athlete	Andrew Train	align=left athlete		4:09.94	QF
5.	align=left athlete	Aleksandr Kostoglod	align=left athlete		4:10.10
6.	align=left athlete	Fred Spaulding	align=left athlete		4:13.83
7.	align=left athlete	Vlado Poslek	align=left athlete		4:16.99
8.	align=left athlete	Park Chang-Gyu	align=left athlete		4:29.23
-	align=left athlete	Tiit Tikerpe	align=left athlete		4:13.31	DISQ

Neither Liljedahl nor Tikerpe's disqualifications were disclosed in the official report.

Final

The final took place on August 8.

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
	align=left athlete	Nikolay Bukhalov	align=left athlete		width=60	4:05.92
	align=left athlete	Ivans Klementyev	align=left athlete		4:06.60
	align=left athlete	György Zala	align=left athlete		4:07.35
4.	align=left athlete	Matthias Röder	align=left athlete		4:08.96
5.	align=left athlete	Pascal Sylvoz	align=left athlete		4:09.82
6.	align=left athlete	Andrew Train	align=left athlete		4:12.58
7.	align=left athlete	Victor Partnoi	align=left athlete		4:14.57
8.	align=left athlete	Jan Bartůněk	align=left athlete		4:15.25
9.	align=left athlete	Steve Giles	align=left athlete		4:17.12

Bukhalov used the same tactics to defeat Klementjevs like he did Michał Śliwiński in the C-1 500 m event the previous day. Bukhalov led from start to finish while Klemenjevs moved from fifth to second in the last 250 meters.

References

1992 Summer Olympics official report Volume 5. pp. 144–5.
Sports-reference.com 1992 C-1 1000 m 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. pp. 480–1.