Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Canoe - Single Kayak 200 meters (men)

sport	canoe
discipline	Single kayak 200 meters
gender	Men
place	Dorney Lake
Attendees	20 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	10/11 August 2012

The canoe competition in one kayak 200 meters of the men at the 2012 Olympics in London was on 10 and 11 August 2012 at the Dorney Lake held. 20 athletes took part.

The competition over 200 meters is new to the Olympic program and replaces the kayak race over 500 meters. On August 10th, three preliminary runs were started. 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	-	new to the Olympic program
World Champion	Piotr Siemionowski ( Poland )	Szeged 2011

Prelims

August 10, 2012

Forward 1

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark de Jonge	Canada	35,396
2	Piotr Siemionowski	Poland	35.990
3	Momotaro Matsushita	Japan	36.096
4th	Egidijus Balčiūnas	Lithuania	36.173
5	César de Cesare	Ecuador	36.181
6th	Murray Stewart	Australia	37.202
7th	Mohamed Mrabet	Tunisia	38.291

Forward 2

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
1	Ed McKeever	United Kingdom	35.087
2	Marko Novaković	Serbia	35.212
3	Miklós Dudás	Hungary	35,323
4th	Yevgeny Salachev	Russia	35.652
5	Maxim Richard	Belgium	36.125
6th	Tim Hornsby	United States	35,560
7th	Mostafa Mansour	Egypt	40.507

Forward 3

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
1	Saúl Craviotto	Spain	35,552
2	Maxime Beaumont	France	35,571
3	Kasper Bleibach	Denmark	36.610
4th	Ronald Rauhe	Germany	36.817
5	Zhou Yubo	People's Republic of China	38,316
6th	Joshua Utanga	Cook Islands	38.966

Semifinals

August 10, 2012

Run 1

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark de Jonge	Canada	35,595
2	Saúl Craviotto	Spain	35,597
3	Marko Novaković	Serbia	36.293
4th	Yevgeny Salachev	Russia	36,312
5	Kasper Bleibach	Denmark	36.667
6th	César de Cesare	Ecuador	36.975
7th	Momotaro Matsushita	Japan	37,201
8th	Zhou Yubo	People's Republic of China	39,042

Run 2

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
1	Ed McKeever	United Kingdom	35.619
2	Maxime Beaumont	France	35.814
3	Miklós Dudás	Hungary	35.993
4th	Ronald Rauhe	Germany	36,183
5	Egidijus Balčiūnas	Lithuania	36.495
6th	Piotr Siemionowski	Poland	36.507
7th	Maxim Richard	Belgium	37.029
8th	Tim Hornsby	United States	37.660

final

The first Olympic champion in this discipline: Ed McKeever (GBR)

Saúl Craviotto (ESP) wins silver

August 11, 2012

Finale B

Note: to determine places 9 to 16

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
09	Kasper Bleibach	Denmark	37,802
10	Egidijus Balčiūnas	Lithuania	37.995
11	Momotaro Matsushita	Japan	38.040
12	César de Cesare	Ecuador	38.075
13	Maxim Richard	Belgium	38,435
14th	Piotr Siemionowski	Poland	38,585
15th	Tim Hornsby	United States	39,370
16	Zhou Yubo	People's Republic of China	40.157

Finale A

Note: to determine places 1 to 8

space	Canoeists	nation	Time (s)
1	Ed McKeever	United Kingdom	36,246
2	Saúl Craviotto	Spain	36,540
3	Mark de Jonge	Canada	36.657
4th	Maxime Beaumont	France	36.688
5	Yevgeny Salachev	Russia	36.825
6th	Miklós Dudás	Hungary	36.830
7th	Marko Novaković	Serbia	37.094
8th	Ronald Rauhe	Germany	37.553

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