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

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.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nikolay Bukhalov (BUL)	Ivans Klementyev (LAT)	György Zala (HUN)

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
1.	Matthias Röder	Germany	4:02.57	QS
2.	Pascal Sylvoz	France	4:03.39	QS
3.	Ivans Klementyev	Latvia	4:03.82	QS
4.	Victor Partnoi	Romania	4:04.64	QR
5.	Jan Bartůněk	Czechoslovakia	4:15.61	QR
6.	Tomasz Darski	Poland	4:23.21	QR
7.	Park Chang-Gyu	South Korea	4:23.93	QR

Heat 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Steve Giles	Canada	4:03.34	QS
2.	Nikolay Bukhalov	Bulgaria	4:03.36	QS
3.	Aleksandr Kostoglod	Unified Team	4:04.99	QS
4.	Peter Liljedahl	Sweden	4:05.08	QR
5.	Vlado Poslek	Croatia	4:09.77	QR
6.	Fred Spaulding	United States	4:10.24	QR

Heat 3

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	György Zala	Hungary	4:06.43	QS
2.	Andrew Train	Great Britain	4:07.44	QS
3.	José Alfredo Bea	Spain	4:09.18	QS
4.	Armando Silega	Cuba	4:10.76	QR
5.	Tiit Tikerpe	Estonia	4:14.73	QR
6.	José Martínez	Mexico	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
1.	Victor Partnoi	Romania	4:02.67	QS
2.	Fred Spaulding	United States	4:04.39	QS
3.	Armando Silega	Cuba	4:04.43	QS
4.	Vlado Poslek	Croatia	4:05.86	QS
5.	Park Chang-Gyu	South Korea	4:06.53	QS

Repechage 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Jan Bartůněk	Czechoslovakia	4:02.48	QS
2.	Peter Liljedahl	Sweden	4:03.44	QS
3.	Tiit Tikerpe	Estonia	4:05.05	QS
4.	José Martínez	Mexico	4:06.73	QS
5.	Tomasz Darski	Poland	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
1.	Matthias Röder	Germany	4:02.94	QF
2.	Nikolay Bukhalov	Bulgaria	4:03.46	QF
3.	Ivans Klementyev	Latvia	4:04.12	QF
4.	György Zala	Hungary	4:05.29	QF
5.	Victor Partnoi	Romania	4:06.58	QF
6.	José Martínez	Mexico	4:07.78
7.	Armando Silega	Cuba	4:25.54
8.	José Alfredo Bea	Spain	4:25.63
-	Peter Liljedahl	Sweden	4:06.63	DISQ

Semifinal 2

Rank	Canoer	Country	Time	Notes
1.	Pascal Sylvoz	France	4:06.83	QF
2.	Steve Giles	Canada	4:08.05	QF
3.	Jan Bartůněk	Czechoslovakia	4:08.44	QF
4.	Andrew Train	Great Britain	4:09.94	QF
5.	Aleksandr Kostoglod	Unified Team	4:10.10
6.	Fred Spaulding	United States	4:13.83
7.	Vlado Poslek	Croatia	4:16.99
8.	Park Chang-Gyu	South Korea	4:29.23
-	Tiit Tikerpe	Estonia	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
	Nikolay Bukhalov	Bulgaria	4:05.92
	Ivans Klementyev	Latvia	4:06.60
	György Zala	Hungary	4:07.35
4.	Matthias Röder	Germany	4:08.96
5.	Pascal Sylvoz	France	4:09.82
6.	Andrew Train	Great Britain	4:12.58
7.	Victor Partnoi	Romania	4:14.57
8.	Jan Bartůněk	Czechoslovakia	4:15.25
9.	Steve Giles	Canada	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. (in Catalan, English, French, and Spanish)
• 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.