Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Canoe - Single Kayak 1000 meters (men)

sport	canoe
discipline	Single kayak 1000 meters
gender	Men
place	Dorney Lake
Attendees	22 athletes from 22 countries
Competition phase	6./8. August 2012

The men's 1000 meter single kayak canoe competition (short name: K1 1,000) at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 6th and 8th, 2012 on Dorney Lake . 22 athletes took part.

The competition started with three preliminary runs. The first five canoeists each qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, there was the fastest placed sixth. The remaining canoeists were eliminated.

In the semifinals, the first four athletes qualified for final A, the rest for final B, with which positions 9 to 16 were determined.

The directly qualified canoeists are highlighted in light green, the fastest placed sixth in light blue.

Title holder

Olympic champion	Tim Brabants ( United Kingdom )	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Adam van Koeverden ( Canada )	Szeged 2011

Prelims

August 6, 2012

Forward 1

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (min)
1	Adam van Koeverden	Canada	3: 28.697
2	Marko Tomićević	Serbia	3: 30.693
3	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	3: 30.768
4th	Jorge García	Cuba	3: 30.852
5	Tim Brabants	United Kingdom	3: 31.869
6th	Pavel Nikolaev	Russia	3: 35.466
7th	Maximilian Benassi	Italy	3: 35.543
8th	Joshua Utanga	Cook Islands	4: 32.064

Forward 2

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (min)
1	Not so Gustafsson	Sweden	3: 34.419
2	Ben Fouhy	New Zealand	3: 35.610
3	Aleh Jurenja	Belarus	3: 36.012
4th	Zhou Yubo	People's Republic of China	3: 36.994
5	Francisco Cubelos	Spain	3: 37.791
6th	Ahmad Reza Talebian	Iran	3: 39.504
7th	Mostafa Mansour	Egypt	4: 09.651

Forward 3

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (min)
1	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	3: 30.284
2	Max Hoff	Germany	3: 30.709
3	Eirik Verås Larsen	Norway	3: 31.288
4th	Mohamed Mrabet	Tunisia	3: 32.204
5	Cyrille Carré	France	3: 32.705
6th	Murray Stewart	Australia	3: 32.768
7th	Marek Krajčovič	Slovakia	3: 39.649

Semifinals

August 6, 2012

Run 1

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (min)
1	Adam van Koeverden	Canada	3: 28.209
2	Eirik Verås Larsen	Norway	3: 29.547
3	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	3: 30.247
4th	Tim Brabants	United Kingdom	3: 30.769
5	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	3: 30.818
6th	Ben Fouhy	New Zealand	3: 32.572
7th	Zhou Yubo	People's Republic of China	3: 36.163
8th	Cyrille Carré	France	3: 38.981

Run 2

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (min)
1	Max Hoff	Germany	3: 29.294
2	Aleh Jurenja	Belarus	3: 29.825
3	Not so Gustafsson	Sweden	3: 31.149
4th	Francisco Cubelos	Spain	3: 31.833
5	Jorge García	Cuba	3: 31.937
6th	Murray Stewart	Australia	3: 32.975
7th	Marko Tomićević	Serbia	3: 43.589
8th	Mohamed Mrabet	Tunisia	3: 44.545

final

August 8, 2012

Finale B

Note: to determine places 9 to 16

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (min)
09	Jorge García	Cuba	3: 29.938
10	Marko Tomićević	Serbia	3: 30.754
11	Miroslav Kirchev	Bulgaria	3: 33.051
12	Cyrille Carré	France	3: 33.513
13	Mohamed Mrabet	Tunisia	3: 33.515
14th	Ben Fouhy	New Zealand	3: 34.710
15th	Zhou Yubo	People's Republic of China	3: 36.110
16	Murray Stewart	Australia	3: 40.834

Finale A

Note: to determine places 1 to 8

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (min)
1	Eirik Verås Larsen	Norway	3: 26.462
2	Adam van Koeverden	Canada	3: 27.170
3	Max Hoff	Germany	3: 27.759
4th	René Holten Poulsen	Denmark	3: 29.483
5	Not so Gustafsson	Sweden	3: 29.919
6th	Aleh Jurenja	Belarus	3: 32.396
7th	Francisco Cubelos	Cuba	3: 32.521
8th	Tim Brabants	United Kingdom	3: 34.833

At his fourth Olympic Games, the Norwegian Eirik Verås Larsen won his second gold. He won his first gold medal in this discipline in 2004. There is also a silver medal in 2008 and a bronze medal in 2004 in a two-person kayak over 1,000 meters.

Web links

• Single kayak 1000 meters (men)