Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom K-1

The men's K-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place between August 11 and 12 2008 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing. The K-1 (single kayak) event was raced by one-man kayaks through a whitewater course.

There were three rounds of competitions: the heats, the semifinal, and the final. In the heats, each canoeist completed two runs of the course. The time, in seconds, of each run was added to the number of penalty points assessed. Touching any of the 21 slalom gates resulted in a 2-second penalty for each gate touched, while skipping any of the gates resulted in a 50-second penalty. The total times for the two preliminary runs were summed to give a score for the heats. The top 15 boats advanced to the semifinals.

The semifinals consisted of a single run. The field was narrowed to the top 10 scores from that run; those 10 boats advanced to the final. The times from the final were added to the semifinal score to give an overall total.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, August 11, 2008	15:50-16:50	Heats 1st Run
Monday, August 11, 2008	17:42-18:40	Heats 2nd Run
Tuesday, August 12, 2008	15:40-16:40	Semifinal
Tuesday, August 12, 2008	17:17-18:00	Final

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Alexander Grimm (GER)	Fabien Lefèvre (FRA)	Benjamin Boukpeti (TOG)

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Country	Preliminary runs
			Run 1	Run 2	Total
1	Peter Kauzer	Slovenia	81.79	84.70	166.49
2	Fabien Lefèvre	France	85.66	82.40	168.06
3	Daniele Molmenti	Italy	85.13	83.46	168.59
4	Alexander Grimm	Germany	84.90	84.36	169.26
5	Dariusz Popiela	Poland	85.51	85.51	171.02
6	Helmut Oblinger	Austria	86.21	85.54	171.75
7	Vavřinec Hradilek	Czech Republic	85.61	86.41	172.02
8	Benjamin Boukpeti	Togo	90.17	82.09	172.26
9	Campbell Walsh	Great Britain	86.72	85.72	172.44
10	Warwick Draper	Australia	86.28	86.30	172.58
11	Peter Cibák	Slovakia	86.26	86.69	172.95
12	Guillermo Díez-Canedo	Spain	84.95	88.07	173.02
13	David Ford	Canada	85.35	89.49	174.84
14	Robert Bouten	Netherlands	86.26	88.90	175.16
15	Eoin Rheinisch	Ireland	88.52	87.81	176.33
16	Pablo McCandless	Chile	88.24	88.40	176.64
17	Michael Kurt	Switzerland	87.58	91.08	178.66
18	Kazuki Yazawa	Japan	89.82	90.05	179.87
19	Atanas Nikolovski	Macedonia	92.63	88.56	181.19
20	Scott Parsons	United States	84.91	135.63	220.54
21	Ding Fuxue	China	87.47	140.92	228.39

  Qualified for semifinals

Semifinal

Rank	Name	Country	Semifinal run
			Penalty seconds	Time
1	Benjamin Boukpeti	Togo	0	86.08
2	Warwick Draper	Australia	0	86.09
3	Fabien Lefèvre	France	0	87.21
4	Alexander Grimm	Germany	0	87.31
5	Robert Bouten	Netherlands	0	88.40
6	David Ford	Canada	0	88.46
7	Dariusz Popiela	Poland	0	88.49
8	Daniele Molmenti	Italy	2	88.56
9	Helmut Oblinger	Austria	0	88.69
10	Eoin Rheinisch	Ireland	0	88.85
11	Vavřinec Hradilek	Czech Republic	0	88.97
12	Peter Cibák	Slovakia	2	89.41
13	Peter Kauzer	Slovenia	4	89.42
14	Guillermo Díez-Canedo	Spain	2	90.06
15	Campbell Walsh	Great Britain	2	95.74

  Qualified for final

Final

Rank	Name	Country	Semifinal run		Final run		Total
			Penalty seconds	Time	Penalty seconds	Time
	Alexander Grimm	Germany	0	87.31	0	84.39	171.70
	Fabien Lefèvre	France	0	87.21	0	86.09	173.30
	Benjamin Boukpeti	Togo	0	86.08	0	87.37	173.45
4	Eoin Rheinisch	Ireland	0	88.85	0	88.06	176.91
5	Warwick Draper	Australia	0	86.09	0	91,76	177,85
6	David Ford	Canada	0	88.46	2	87,89	178,35
7	Helmut Oblinger	Austria	0	88.69	2	88,14	178,83
8	Dariusz Popiela	Poland	0	88.49	0	91,19	179,68
9	Robert Bouten	Netherlands	0	88.40	50	89,59	227,99
10	Daniele Molmenti	Italy	2	88.56	52	90,37	230,93

References

• ICF slalom canoeing schedule for the 2008 Summer Olympics. - accessed July 30, 2008.
• Sports-reference.com 2008 men's K-1 slalom results.